In just a few short weeks it
will be our privilege to host our FOURTH ANNUAL SOVEREIGN GRACE BIBLE
CONFERENCE. These conferences have been a real source of inspiration and
encouragement to me, to our church family, and to our many friends who have
become regular guests in our family at this time of the year. I am confident
that we are in store for a real treat again this year.
We have seven of God's choice servants coming to
preach the gospel to us! These are all men whom I know personally. Each of them
faithfully proclaims the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace in Christ.
Few congregations in this country have such a privilege. I am delighted that we
can sit together for three days to hear God speak through his servants to our
hearts the gospel of his grace and glory!
I am anticipating more visitors from out-of-town than
we have ever had in the past. Our old friends will be returning. It will be
good to renew our fellowship with them. And there will be many visiting us who
have never been here before. Be sure you greet them and make them feel welcome.
These people are coming, some of them many miles, to spend their holidays with
us, because they love Christ, they love the gospel of God's sovereign grace,
and they love the Lord's people. Never was a congregation more blessed than we
are with true, faithful friends.
Conference time only comes around once a year. It
will require from us all much work and sacrifice to take good care of our
guests. I will be calling upon many of you to help in various ways. I hope that
you will not only be ready and willing, but anxious to do what you can to make
our conference a real experience of joy and fellowship, for which Grace Church
has become known.
Let us unite our hearts in prayer, seeking the Lord's
blessings upon us in these meetings. Pray for each of those men who will be
preaching to us. Pray that God might be pleased to grant us the presence and
the power of his Spirit, and that Christ may be both revealed and magnified in
our midst.