Following is information relative to the Bible Conference we will be hosting in Central Kentucky in September 2018.

Grace Evangel Fellowship

“Recognizing Christ as the Ultimate Savior of All!”

2018 Kentucky Independent Bible Conference

A gathering of those wishing to consider the Scriptures “concordantly”

Sponsored by Grace Evangel Fellowship, P O Box 6, Wilmore, Kentucky 40390

Bob & Jill Evely (bob@GraceEvangel.org)

Friday, September 14th – The Evely farm, 285 Bradford Lane, Harrodsburg, KY 40330

5:00 p.m.	Beginning at 5 p.m. I will have a campfire going and will be happy to grill any hamburgers or hot dogs you want to bring. This is a bring-your-own event as we have no way of knowing the numbers that will attend.
6:30 p.m.	Bob will deliver an opening message to set the theme of the conference. A time of discussion will follow.
7:30 p.m.	Fellowship time. If you have a musical instrument (guitar, etc) feel free to bring it with you. We may choose to have a bit of a jam session.

About the Evely farm: We have a 32x48 covered pavilion where we will meet. The sides are open so dress for the weather. Bring your own chairs. We have 30 acres with lots of trails to hike. If you are inclined, be sure to bring tennis shoes or hiking boots, and other clothing appropriate for outdoor hiking.

Saturday, September 15th – The Evely farm

8:30 a.m.	“The Visitation” (the four gospel accounts)
12:00 Noon	Lunch (The Evelys will provide sandwiches. Please bring your own drinks. And if you prefer a different menu item please bring that with you.)
1:00 p.m.	“The Waiting” (the Circumcision epistles) and “The Pause” (Pauline epistles)
5:00 p.m.	Dinner break. (The Evelys will provide chili and bread. Please bring your own drinks. And if you prefer a different menu item please bring that with you.)
6:30 p.m.	Continued discussion and fellowship.

About the format: For each new topic Bob will begin by providing an overview based on his studies, and we will then go into a conversation involving all who are present. We will have opportunity to ask questions of one another and share thoughts from our own studies and contemplation of the Scriptures.

Sunday, September 16th – The Evely farm

8:30 a.m.	“The Return of the King” (Revelation)
11:00 a.m.	Closing remarks & discussion
12:00 Noon	Adjournment (though all are welcome to stay longer to hike around the farm, fellowship, or grill lunch.)

Bring folding chairs, good shoes for outdoors, bug spray, etc. The entire

conference will be outdoors (under shelter). Those wishing to camp …

there is ample space on the grounds to accommodate. We will have

porta potties and a washing station setup.

A bit more about the conference format:

Bob’s comments will be based on his recently completed series of books:

·         The Visitation

·         The Waiting

·         The Pause

·         The Return of the King

It is not necessary that you have a copy of these books as Bob will be sharing a brief overview of each segment before our time of discussion. Most of our time will be in discussion; not in listening to Bob (or anyone else).

Those who have done their own studies … please come prepared to share from your notes. But you’ll need to keep it brief. Our goal at this conference will be to examine the New Testament from 30,000 feet … an “overview” of these Scriptures and not a detailed examination of any given passage or passages.

There is a place for a study of trees, but if one devotes their entire energy to studying the tree he will not appreciate the forest. Our goal here will be to consider the forest, with a special focus on contemplating how all portions of the Scriptures fit together.

Almost Persuaded

I wanted to share this excellent article from the Nov 2017 edition of Grace & Truth Magazine. You can find more information on this publication at www.GraceTruth.co.uk

ALMOST PERSUADED

By C.S. Anderson

“For, even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also,
in Christ shall all be vivified” (1Cor.15:22)

“God wills all mankind to be saved!”  But you say you cannot accept it as truth because it is so much out of line with the common accepted beliefs!

You will not have to study it, but just take a brief glimpse at this passage: 1 Cor. 15:22: “For even as in Adam, all are dying, thus also in Christ all shall be vivified.”  If we limit salvation to believers in Christ, more commonly termed “Christians”, we are bound to limit death to believers in Adam, and yet we know all are dying.  Then, again, we come face to face with this passage in Col. 1:20 “Through Him to reconcile all” ¾ or does it say: “the all, except Judas, Satan, Adam, Pharoah, etc.?”

The Good Shepherd searches long and hard until he finds the 99 sheep.  Then, does He say, with a heavy sigh: “I guess I’ll just have to let the other go?”  Or does He reason thus: “If I can recover 99, does it not speak well for the possibility of finding the last solitary one?”

After all, aside from these definite Divine declarations and many more throughout the Word, do you not wish that it were true?  Surely you would like to see every creature happy and serving God! Yes, my friend hesitatingly replies.  Well, then do you not think that God, our loving Heavenly Father, would like to see it that way even more so than you?  Jesus said: (Matt. 7:11) “If you, then, being wicked, have perceived how to be giving good gifts to your children, how much rather your heavenly Father?”  Still another faint, halting “yes” comes struggling through!  Again ¾ I press a little harder now:  If God would like all to be reconciled to Himself, ever so much more than you would, and still fails to accomplish it, is it because He lacks  the power?  Surely you agree He doesn’t lack the desire!  Is it really too hard for Him?  Can anything be too hard for God?  “No, I cannot say that this is impossible” comes the blushing reply.

Well, then, isn’t it just good judgment to forget all about the commonly accepted beliefs and disregard entirely all the tangled traditional teachings regarding salvation and fully accept the clear and definite Divine declaration that: “God wills all mankind to be saved?”  (1Tim. 2:4).

Even man, with his imperfect sense of justice and righteousness, requires of his enemies a “full surrender”, not compromising in the least with those whom he considers destroyers of the right.  Would God require less of those who have been opposed to Him?  Could He be supreme, while death, destruction or devil in any form holds full sway?  It is this vision of victory that elicits Paul’s “Thanks be unto God” (1 Cor. 15:57).  Victory again is in full view when our blessed Lord said:  “I will draw all to Myself” (John 12:32), and again: “To Him every knee shall bow” (Phil. 2:10:11).

This cannot be enforced worship because it is “to the glory of God, the Father”, and “The Father seeks only such to worship Him as worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).  It is a grand and wonderful theme!  The beloved Psalmist reveled in it until he attained his highest note of praise: “Let everything that hath breath, praise ye the Lord” (Psa. 150).  Not even the least of the least was left out.  How else could He be “All in All” (1 Cor. 15:28)?

Yes, indeed, God wills all mankind to be saved!  And if He is “operating the all according to the counsel of His own will” (Eph. 1:11) then out whole earth, including all of its inhabitants, past, present, or to come, is but a little part.  God has sworn to “fill the earth with His glory” (Num. 14:21) ¾ a glory which, by His matchless grace, He will display in the oncoming eons, through the church, to the farthest out-reaches of His vast universe (Eph. 2:7).  All this is because “God is Love” (1 John 4:9).

God’s love is planning all

His wisdom is directing all

His power is controlling all

That He may be All in all.