Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Sunday, July 17, 2011

MacArthur's "Shepherds' Conference" of 2011

http://www.shepherdsconference.org/

We are reviewing--widely--various American ana-Baptists in their diversity from Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Ministries, Driscoll, Mars Hill, 29Acts, Gospel Coalition, MacArthur, Piper, Chander, Warren and others.  As Confessional Anglicans, if anything, we are pressed toward an higher view of the Bible, our Reformed Articles, and our Reformed Prayer Book.  Nevertheless, we survey these for purposes of understanding them.

The above URL is from MacArthur's "Shepherds' Conference."  Commendably, this ministry puts them online rather than "selling them."  We understand that John Piper does the same. At this point, we are not sure that Ligonier Ministries does that. 

One subset of our concerns is the "Celebrity Culture" and fiscal concerns.  It's a fact some men have become wealthy preaching the Bible. That raises other questions.

4 comments:

Nathan W. Bingham said...

Have you looked at Ligonier's web site? http://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/

Reformation said...

Thanks Nathan for this clarification. We'll start digesting this as well. I need to finish John's Conference tomorrow, but will bookmark this and digest. Good lead.

Gordon Nicely said...

So I have met so many wealthy pastors and work with guys that make enormous money, not to mention the millions and millions of dollars made by the Christian Contemporary Music Industry, it is staggering what these guys make. I know Philip said that their clerics are wealthy men, but how much should a high profile pastor be paid?? Could someone give a dollar amount??

Reformation said...

Thanks Gordon for the insight.

I hadn't even thought of the CCM-industry, but had--periodically--wondered about that. This industry might be really "hucksterish."

As to clergy, the national average is about $85K, total package of salary, housing, medical costs, travel and, occasionally, library-book costs. I would say max = $100K. Having said that, if $100K, there are still in the top 6-7% of the nation's incomes.