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Rochester L’Abri Conference

  • Friday, Feb 13th 9-9:30pm; Saturday, Feb 14th 9-6:15pm
  • James Lowe
  • jlowe@calvaryefree.church

Rochester L’Abri Conference

Friday, Feb 13th 9-9:30pm; Saturday, Feb 14th 9-6:15pm

  • James Lowe
  • jlowe@calvaryefree.church
“The Biblical Story versus the Secular Narrative”
L’Abri will be bringing in some incredible speakers from across the US and Europe. Our own Pastor James Lowe will be the “Masculinity in Crisis” workshop speaker. To learn more go to, www.rochesterlabriconferences.org
At this Conference we want to trace the Biblical storyline through six key themes: Creation, Fall, Atonement, Kingdom, Consummation and Meaning. At each point, we will compare the Biblical view with its secular counterpart, thereby disempowering the secular narrative and helping folk to situate their own personal story within God’s grand drama.
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The goal is to revisit the overarching storyline of the Bible and contrast it with the secular narrative that has become a common framework for meaning in our modern culture. The idea of Christianity as ‘story’ has sometimes been misused by suggesting that Christianity is simply a useful ahistorical myth, but it can be properly used to show that Christianity is more than a collection of disconnected truths or random events, but is actually the true story of God’s unfolding purposes for his people, rooted in history and spanning the cosmos. The power of story to carry meaning is evident in the way the secular narrative often grips the imagination of our culture even though it is fundamentally untrue and completely out of touch with reality.


L’Abri is French for “the shelter.” L’Abri Fellowship was founded by Francis and Edith Schaeffer in 1955 to provide a hospitable environment for any person seeking honest answers to honest questions about God and truth. L’Abri branches operate as residential study centers in ten locations around the world, including Rochester, Minnesota. Following in this tradition, a L’Abri Conference provides an opportunity through lectures, discussions, and personal interaction to deepen our understanding of what it means to be fully human in light of the transformative truth of Christianity.

Friday, February 13

  • 8:00-9:00 Registration
  • 9:00-9:05 Welcome
  • 9:05-10:15 Creation: The Making and Unmaking of the World AJ Poelarends
  • 10:30-11:45 “A” Workshops
  • 12:00-1:30 Three Course Lunch at the Mayo Civic Center
  • 2:00-3:15 Fall: All Will Be Made Alive – The Doctrine of Adam’s Fall is still Good News Hans Madueme
  • 3:30-4:45 “B” Workshops
  • 5:00-7:00 Dinner on your own
  • 7:00-8:15 Atonement Theology under Fire: Why do Contemporary Theologians prefer the Royal Priesthood over the Prophetic? Henk Reitsema
  • 8:30-9:30 Concert: ‘Butterfly’ – Isabelle Thom

Saturday, February 14

  • 8:00-9:00 Registration
  • 9:00-10:15 Kingdom: What Did Jesus Save Us For? Clarke Scheibe
  • 10:30-11:45 “C” Workshops
  • 12:00-1:30 Three Course Lunch at the Mayo Civic Center
  • 2:00-3:15 Consummation: Utopian Dreams? – the Hope of New Creation for a Broken World Jim Paul
  • 3:30-4:45 “D” Workshops
  • 5:00-6:15 Meaning: The Adventure of a Lifetime – Pursuing Truth and Objective Meaning by Discipleship to Christ in Our Relativistic and Lost World Greg Jesson
  • 6:15 Closing Remarks
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