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Stephen Miller to Lead Worship
Stephen Miller will be leading our worship for BUILD 2011. Stephen is a pastor and artist who strives to enlarge people’s view of God with the truth of Scripture and artfully give a vocabulary and vehicle to express thankfulness and praise to Him. He moved his family and band to Saint Louis, MO in early 2010 to take the role of worship leader at The Journey, a church pastored by his friend, Darrin Patrick. Though he began leading worship 11 years earlier, had toured full time and served in a few churches previously, it was obvious that God was leading him to The Journey to begin a new phase of ministry. While the Church at-large remains one of his deepest passions (continuing to serve in leading worship for conferences, concerts and youth camps), it has become an extension of his love and passion for the local church.
Stephen will also be leading one of our breakout sessions: ”Leading Your Family as a Missional Community”.
Pastor Nate Conrad, “Gospel Transformation For The Angry Man”
In an effort to communicate the distinctiveness of the Build Men Conference, we have asked all our keynote and breakout session speakers to provide a brief introduction. As each of their contributions arrive we will be posting them for everyone to read.
Gospel Transformation For The Angry Man, Pastor Nate Conrad
One of man’s creation mandates is to rule and subdue the earth, to have dominion. With our sinful bent, this becomes not a call to stewarding what God has given to us and a humble response to Him, but an unruly desire to dominate all of life, whether work or relationships. Instead of a desire to willingly serve God, our desire becomes self-inflamed, we long for control and domination, to succeed and to conquer, to demand from others and raise expectations for ourselves and those we influence and create a world in which we are king.
What happens to many men in the course of their plans and desire for strength and competence, to find beauty and peace, or to convince or control is a regular bout with frustration and disappointment. As the poet Robert Burns put it so well, “the best laid schemes of mice and men, often go a askew.” The result is the angry man, the controlling father, the relentless boss, a stressed out, irritable husband.
Gospel-Transformation happens when we repent of our sinful desire for control, and instead, humbly welcome the ways in which God leads us and forms us into the likeness of Christ. Gospel-transformation welcomes the people, places and circumstances of our lives as the loving hand of the Father to transform us bringing us into spiritual maturity. In this breakout session we’ll explore together what it looks like to become a willing participant in his sanctification through the power of the gospel and the presence of the Holy Spirit, entrusting ourselves and submitting our will to his kingship.
You can read more about Pastor Nate Conrad and Naperville Presbyterian Church at the following addresses:
Church site: www.npchurch.org
Personal: www.mynorthwoods.wordpress.com
Pastor Jeff Miller, “The Gospel And Our Work”
In an effort to communicate the distinctiveness of the Build Men Conference, we have asked all our keynote and breakout session speakers to provide a brief introduction. As each of their contributions arrive we will be posting them for everyone to read.
The Gospel And Our Work, Pastor Jeff Miller
There is no other kind of disciple in the New Testament, other than those who are called to be about the mission of Jesus to make other disciples. What about those who are not called into full-time ministry, but rather into some secular vocation for the glory of God? This breakout will cover balancing Jesus’ Great Commission with what He’s called you to do vocationally, along with stewardship principles for every Christ follower.
You can read more about Pastor Jeff Miller and Clearview Church at www.clearview-church.org.
Pastor Jon Bricker, “Enjoying God In Private Prayer”
In an effort to communicate the distinctiveness of the Build Men Conference, we have asked all our keynote and breakout session speakers to provide a brief introduction. As each of their contributions arrive we will be posting them for everyone to read.
Enjoying God In Private Prayer, Pastor Jon Bricker
It is very easy for well-meaning Christians to replace trusting and enjoying Jesus with a somewhat frantic, guilt-driven, anxiety-ridden, self-righteous version of what these well-meaning Christians call “serving Jesus”. I know this because I have done this time and time again, and truly believe I was well-meaning as I was doing it.
In these times, life feels like it must be brought under my rule and control, or else “God’s will” will not be done. My doing for God becomes more important than my being with God, and eventually my joy is sapped and my burden is heavy. I begin to think that being a Christian is more life-draining than life-giving. I subtly begin to act (and believe!) like God “needs” me…even more than I need him! This is reminiscent of a pair of sisters Jesus was friends with during his time among us on earth…
38 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her (Luke 10:38-42).”
Jesus loves us in our misguided busyness, and gently speaks to our hearts to come and rest and be refreshed in his presence. Spending time with God in private prayer is not a new law. Communion with God in private prayer is for you – it’s not for God. It’s necessary for you, not for God. It’s not a law that needs to be met or a demand that needs to be satisfied. It’s a gift for you purchased by the blood of the Son.
By faith, we are free to accept God’s gracious invitation and obey God’s good command – “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth (Ps. 46:10).”
Dr. Robert Davis Smart, “Raising Gospel Laborers”
In an effort to communicate the distinctiveness of the Build Men Conference, we have asked all our keynote and breakout session speakers to provide a brief introduction. As each of their contributions arrive we will be posting them for everyone to read.
Raising gospel laborers: exposing men’s default mode, belief in lies, and foolish strategies in ministry contexts so that Gospel leaders will believe, live, and proclaim the gospel as a lifelong vocation.
“Of this Gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of His power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ.” Ephesians 3:7-8
“The days were all too short, for I was lost in wonder and joy, meditating upon Your far-reaching providence for the salvation of the human race. The tears flowed from me when I heard Your hymns and canticles, for the sweet singing of Your Church moved me deeply. The music surged in my ears, truth seeped into my heart, and my feelings of devotion overflowed, so that the tears streamed down. But they were tears of gladness.”
–Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), Confessions, IX.vi.14. Trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin (New York: Penguin, 1961), 190.
Grace applied to the laborer makes him a happy and grateful instrument to others. Unless the ministry leader preaches and applies the Gospel to his own heart first, the ministry race may not have the effective, joyful lifetime ending promised. The apostolic band appropriated the Gospel to their own lives first of all, lest they be disqualified in preaching to others. The early church leaders, too, rediscovered the Gospel, like Augustine, and found the melody of the Gospel melting their hearts for God’s global purposes through their ministries.
How is the Gospel itself our greatest weapon in our own sanctification? What is a Gospel ministry leader’s default mode? How has he come to believe lies that can govern his ministry efforts for ill? What foolish strategies do men tend to practice that grieve the Spirit? This session shows how the ministry leader needs the Gospel more than anyone else for an effective, joyful lifetime of service of loving others well.
Prepare yourself for a direct approach to taking captive every hindrance that encumbers us, and those we desire to raise up as lifelong Gospel laborers.
Looking forward to our second annual conference together, Bob
Dr. Robert Davis Smart
Lead Pastor of Christ Church
You can find more from Dr. Robert Davis Smart at www.christchurchpca.org.
Scotty Smith, “How The Gospel Exposes And Dethrones Our Idols”
In an effort to communicate the distinctiveness of the Build Men Conference, we have asked all our keynote and breakout session speakers to provide a brief introduction. As each of their contributions arrive we will be posting them for everyone to read.
How the Gospel Exposes and Dethrones Our Idols – Scotty Smith
“My son, give me your heart.” (Prov. 23:26) This is the glorious cry of our Father who both saves us by his grace and transforms us by his grace. But, until the day God glorifies us, there’s going to be an unrelenting and unremitting battle for our heart’s adoration, affection and allegiance. Only the gospel provides the motivation and means we need to be freed from lesser gods (idols) than we might more fully cry, “Abba, Father.” Only the gospel can expose and dethrone our idols. Only the gospel can free us to trust, love and worship God as he deserves
In this breakout session, my goal will be to offer a theological and practical framework for understanding the nature of idolatry; why we gravitate towards certain idols of the heart; how to specifically identify our own idols; and what in involved in the journey to healing and freedom. I will share quite candidly what this journey has looked like/continues to look like in my life. I hope my story might give a face and voice to many of your stories. I’m praying this will be much more than a breakout session at a conference. May it be a veritable breaking-free session, to the glory of God! Much grace and more peace… Scotty
You can read and hear more from Scotty Smith at the following address:
