Please join us for a time of meaningful conversation and rich fellowship as we discuss the present cultural challenges that Christians face as well as a biblical response to those challenges.
“The conventional beliefs and practices of contemporary culture present a range of challenges to Christians striving to be faithful to their Lord. Some of these challenges are obvious, even if knowing how to meet them is perplexing. Others are concealed and become apparent only with the discipline of discerning and patient reflection.” ~ Ken Myers
October 19-20, 2018 / Friday 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm and Saturday 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
Please join us at the *Billie Georgia Conference for OPC Women and Friends to be held here at Oakland Hills Community Church.
Our speaker will be Ken Myers, author of All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes – and host of Mars Hill Audio Journal
“The Risks of Repudiating Reality: Timely Lessons from C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man”
In 1943, C. S. Lewis gave a series of three lectures that were later published in book form as The Abolition of Man. In Lewis’s better-known works of apologetics, he consistently described why Christian belief fit with our experience of real life. In The Abolition of Man (which is more philosophical than apologetic) Lewis addressed the underlying assumptions about the nature of reality that were steering the modern West down destructive paths. In denying the perennial assumption that Nature has a nature, modern thought asserts that the human will imposes meaning on reality. If reality has no intrinsic meaning, then human willing has no intrinsic limits on its exercise. If there is no transcendent Good (or God) that might order human desire towards a higher end, then there is no ‘value’ higher than choice, and all choices must be respected. In these lectures, Ken Myers will examine Lewis’s arguments, outline the theological mistakes that gave rise to modern nihilism, and describe the forms of Christian discipleship needed to confront and dispel modernity’s denial of reality.
Conference Location:
Oakland Hills Community Church
37150 West Eight Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
Registration fee — $30
*This conference is open to men, women and teenagers. For more information or to purchase tickets please contact:
bg.conference4women@gmail.com
Tamara Kelly, LPC
1460 Walton Boulevard, Suite 109
Rochester Hills, MI 48309
248-651-0900
