The Statement of Faith Revision

The Board of Directors has released a letter preparing for the upcoming discussion and possible vote of the Proposed Revision at the National Leadership Conference over June 24-26. The letter begins by reviewing some of the history of our Statement of Faith discussion, and previous decisions that have been made by the Conference.

Then the specifics of the Conference are delineated. One of the more important items in the letter is the section, "Special Rules Relating to Revision of the Statement of Faith." During the Business Sessions we will follow the fromat outlined in our bylaws, but due to the nature of this importnat discussion, the Board of Directors have outlined a few more "Special Rules" for this important and historic Conference.

You can and should read the whole letter, which can be linked here:
http://www.efca.org/about/media/sof-letter-with-rules.pdf

Last fall I taught an 11-week series through the Proposed Revision, beginning with an introductory lesson, followed by a lesson on each article. This was also recorded - if you are interested in the recording, please let me know as a comment (the notes have been tweaked a bit since I taught through the material, so that would be good to know about the recorded teaching).

This is intended to be another resource for you as you prepare to teach through or to ponder the changes being proposed in this Revision. This is certainly not a "finished product" but it should prove to be another helpful resource for you and others as you prepare to discuss and possibly vote on this Revision this summer at the National Leadership Conference.

To acclimate you to the notes, here is an overview of the key components of what the notes contain:

*List the Proposed Revision article and the parallel SOF article
*Address the differences between the two articles
*Teach what the Proposed Revision article means
*Speak to the ways in which the article has been strengthened
*Respond to reasons why it is important today to emphasis this truth
*Additional resources are included, e.g. questions for further study, longer Scripture texts to preach, memory verses, hymns and choruses
*Appendix 1 includes the commentary on the particular article
*Appendix 2 includes FAQs for each article, which are actual email questions and answers

These notes are now posted. You can get to them directly at

http://www.efca.org/about/doctrine/sof-documents.html

or by going to www.efca.org/about/doctrine (the SOF page) and clicking on "Teaching series and notes on the proposed revision to the Statement of Faith (by Greg Strand)"