President Bill Hamel began this historic discussion by asking two questions: would the Conference affirm a new Statement of Faith strengthening our commitment to evangelical, historic faith? And would we debate and vote with godly character? The answer to both questions was "yes."

On June 26, 2008, delegates of the 124th EFCA National Leadership Conference approved the Proposed Revision of the Statement of Faith - 86% of delegates voted for the Proposed Revision. None of the four amendments passed, so the delegates adopted the Proposed Revsion as it was presented to the Conference in 2007.

Throughout the debate and decision, God's presence was evident as delegates kept in step with the Spirit (Gal. 5:25), manifested the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23), and left an aroma of Christ (2 Cor. 2:14-16).

The conference concluded with President Hamel leading the attendees in a strong and passionate confession of the new EFCA Statement of Faith. Here is a link to the Statement of Faith:

http://www.efca.org/about/doctrine/

To God be the glory, great things He has done . . . and continues to do in the EFCA!

Yesterday (June 4, 2008) a broadcast email was sent to the EFCA contituency informing us of the six amendments that are to be brought before the Conference the end of this month. Today there is an update that has been sent informing the EFCA that there are now four amendments before the Conference as original amendments 5 and 6 have been withdrawn. Here is the email from Ron Aucutt, the Moderator. Please make sure you check the links to read the pertinent material referenced in Ron's update.

EFCA UPDATE SPECIAL BROADCAST
Consideration of the Revised Statement of Faith
June 5, 2008


UPDATED INFORMATION FROM THE MODERATOR REGARDING THE CONSIDERATION OF THE REVISED STATEMENT OF FAITH AT THE 2008 NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Two of the proposed amendments to the Revised Statement of Faith referred to in our last Update Special Broadcast (Proposed Amendments No. 5 and No. 6) have been withdrawn.

The current EFCA Statement of Faith may be viewed at -
www.efca.org/about/doctrine,

the proposed Revised Statement of Faith may be viewed at -
www.efca.org/about/media/sof_proposed_revision.pdf,

the Transitional Rules for Implementation may be viewed at -
www.efca.org/about/media/sof_transitional_rules_adopted.pdf,

the proposed Special Rules for considering the Revised Statement of Faith may be viewed in the Board of Directors' letter of March 11, 2008, at -
www.efca.org/about/media/sof-letter-with-rules.pdf,

and the four proposed amendments may be viewed at -
http://www.efca.org/about/media/proposed-amendment-information-jun-2008-update.pdf.

Ronald D. Aucutt, EFCA Moderator