After months of anticipation, our “colloquium” is finally here.
We have gathered here in Ft. Worth with the speakers for the Pastors’ Conference for 2017. D. Paige Patterson, Dr. David Allen, and the rest of the Southwestern Seminary family have bent over backwards to make us welcome and to help us make this two-day event a success! Since the day I was elected to this office, no one has been more gracious to us than Dr. Patterson. We are greatly in his debt.
Soon after my election last June, Bart brought to me with this idea – gathering all of the preachers together to immerse ourselves in the text we are preaching (later we settled on Philippians), get a common outline, and build some comraderie. I loved the idea and asked him to “make it so.” He did.
Dr. David Allen bowled us over with the work he has put into this. When we arrived, each of the 12 speakers (well, 11, one of our guys had a revival commitment) received a thumb drive overflowing with a wealth of information on the book of Philippians and on their passage – textual outlines, and other resources for study and sermon preparation. It is the result of Dr. Allen’s many years of study of the text, a thumb drive worth the price of the plane ticket!
We gathered for lunch today, enjoyed some “Cousins BBQ” and got to know one another. Dr. Patterson greeted us, and now Dr. Allen is beginning to give us an overview of the book.
I’m not going to try to give you all the information we are getting – my body and mind are tired I won’t be able to absorb it all myself! I just want you to know what we are doing.
We are putting on a Pastors’ Conference like none before. These men are serious about holding up that name that is “Above Every Name” and honoring the word of God as powerful and effective.
Pray for the men who are learning, studying, and growing!
- Jose Abella
- Michael Allen
- Jamar Andrews
- Bart Barber
- Dave Choi
- Chris Davis
- Shane Hall
- Jimmy Meek
- Jon Onwucheckwa
- Spencer Plumlee
- Ryan Rice
- Nathan Rose
How about turning the picture around! I think one of the pastors in the picture is my pastor, Shane Hall, but I would have to stand on my head to be sure.
Seriously, it is really great that all of the pastors are having this special overview of Philippians.
Roger OKC
The picture does not need to be turned around, and Shane was not able to be with us. I took the picture.
Immediately in front of me, to my right is Michael Allen and to my left is Jon Onwucheckwa. On the front row is (r to l) Jimmy Meek, Chris Davis, and I think Jose Abella.
The picture is upside-down for me. Maybe that’s what Roger is talking about.
I think he wants to see their faces.
If it was just upside down, s it was for me as well, he could just turn his device, as I did my laptop.
But since Dave gave us the names, we know who there are and what the back of their heads look like. (-:
Additional pictures and videos are available at the SBC Pastor’s Conference Facebook page.