GES 2023 National Conference

Please join us at Camp Copass in Denton, TX for the 2023 GES National Conference on Vital Free Grace Issues!

New for this year:

• Lunches at Camp Copass are included in the price of paid registration!
• Lunch is included for kids attending VBS (ages 5-10 only)!
• Free Continental breakfast available in the Talley Center for guests staying at Camp Copass!
• Afternoon recreation time is now built into the schedule to allow for swimming and other activities at the camp!
• More evening fellowship opportunities!

Registration is now open! Click here to go to the registration page.

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The Talley Retreat Center offers the most comfortable accommodations as well as the meeting rooms for Plenary and Workshop sessions.

Recreational opportunities include swimming during designated times, mini-golf, basketball, human foosball, a lake nearby for fishing and kayaking (bring your own gear), evening fire pit fellowship, women’s fellowship, teen and young adult fellowship, RV hook-ups, and more.

VBS for the kids will take place at the Angel Conference Center.

Accommodations:

Talley Retreat Center

• $145/night
• 2 Queen beds
• Sofa bed available in some rooms (request at registration)

Angel Motel

• $107/night
• 2 Full beds

RV Hook-ups

8 sites available with full hook-ups.

Schedule:

Vital Free Grace Issues

Time	Location	Event	Details
Monday, May 22, 2023
11:00-12:45	Foyer	Registration
12:00-12:30	Dining Hall	Lunch	Free for Paid Conferees; $8 for children, $11 for unpaid.
12:45-12:55	Main Room	Overview/Disclaimer	Bob
1:00-1:50	Main Room	Plenary Session 1	Ken Yates, Is Believing in Jesus for Forgiveness of Sins the Same as Believing in Him for Everlasting Life?
2:05-2:55	Main Room	Plenary Session 2	J. B. Bond, Proving our Salvation by Our Words, Our Works, or Both
3:10-4:00	Main Room	Plenary Session 3	Bob Vacendak, Is Assurance of the Essence of Saving Faith in the Gospel of John?
4:00-5:15	Various	Free time for swimming, putt-putt, basketball, etc.
4:15-5:00	Main Room	Optional Session	Ken Yates, Basics of FG for Newbies
5:30-6:00	Dining Hall	Supper	Cost = $11 ($8 for children)
7:00	Various		Fellowship for young adults
9:00	Fire pit area	Campfire fellowship	Campfire & S’mores
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
8:00-8:30	Dining Hall	Breakfast	Free Continental for guests; $11 for others.
8:35-8:45	Main Room	Worship in Song	Bob Vacendak
8:50-9:40	Main Room	Plenary Session 4	Bob Bryant, 2006 Revisited*
10:00-10:50	Main Room	Plenary Session 5	John Claeys, Will Those Who Never Heard About Jesus Get a Second Chance?
11:10-12:00	Main Room	Plenary Session 6	David Janssen, Why Faith without Works Is Still Faith
12:00-1:30	Dining Hall	Lunch	Free for Paid Conferees; $11 for others.
1:30-2:10	Various	Parallel Sessions 1*	Claeys, Rutherford, Bond,
2:20-3:00	Various	Parallel Sessions 2	Bryant, Janssen, Sterling (1)
3:10-3:50	Various	Parallel Sessions 3	Vacendak, Millet, Kathryn Wright
4:00-5:15	Various	Free time for swimming and other activities
5:30-6:00	Dining Hall	Supper	Cost = $11 ($8 for children)
5:30-6:30	Angel Meeting room	Lord’s Supper (bring your meal)	Chip Brunott, A Church Meeting That Should Be in the Plan
7:30	Various		Women’s Fellowship
9:00	Fire pit area	Campfire fellowship	Campfire & S’mores
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
8:00-8:30	Dining Hall	Breakfast	Free continental for Guests; $11 for others.
8:35-8:45	Main Room	Worship in Song	Nicole Rossen
8:50-9:40	Main Room	Plenary Session 7	John Niemelä, Repentance Unfound in John’s Gospel: A Concept Foreign to Jesus’ Message of Life
10:00-10:50	Main Room	Plenary Session 8	Mike Lii, Focused vs. Flexible Free Grace
11:10-12:00	Main Room	Plenary Session 9	Dix Winston, The Promise of Life and the Controversy of the Cross
12:00-1:30	Dining Hall	Lunch	Free for Paid Conferees; $11 for others
1:30-2:20	Main Room	Plenary Session 10	Steve Elkins, Is Faith Certainty or Some Degree of Confidence?
2:30-3:10	Various	Parallel Sessions 4	Lii, Winston, Niemelä (1)
3:20-4:00	Various	Parallel Sessions 5	Lewis, Zimmerman, Yates
4:00-5:15	Various	Free time for swimming and other activities
5:30-6:00	Dining Hall	Supper	Cost = $11 ($8 for children)
7:00		Putt-Putt tourney, Volleyball, 3 on 3 basketball, frisbee golf tourney
9:00	Fire pit area	Campfire Fellowship	Campfire & S’mores
Thursday, May 25, 2023
8:00-8:30	Dining Hall	Breakfast	Free continental for Guests; $11 for others.
8:35-8:45	Main Room	Worship in Song	Nicole Rossen
8:50-9:40	Various	Parallel Sessions 6	Elkins, Wilkin, Sterling (2)
10:00-10:40	Various	Parallel Sessions 7	da Rosa, Letitia Lii, Niemelä (2)
11:00-11:50	Main Room	Plenary Session 11	Bob Wilkin, The Inclusive Big Tent of Some “FG” contradicts Matt 7:13-14
11:55-12:00	Main Room	Thanks for coming	Bob and Sharon
12:00-12:30	Dining Hall	Lunch	Cost = $11 ($8 for children)

*At the 2006 national GES conference, a great controversy arose over assurance and regeneration.

**Workshop speakers are listed above in order. 1st = main. 2nd = 2nd floor. 3rd = 3rd floor.

Workshop Titles:

J. B. Bond, Grace and Works Together (Eph 2:8-10)

Bob Bryant, A Way To Explain Romans 10:9

John Claeys, The Critical Importance of the Doctrine of Reward in Free Grace Theology

Antonio da Rosa, TBA

Steve Elkins, Why Zane Hodges Taught That Faith Is Certainty

David Janssen, Stepping People Through James 2

Steve Lewis, Consensus Theology and Its Impact on Biblical Theology

Letitia Lii, Do You Know about the New GES Seminary?

Mike Lii, The Changing State of Free Grace Theology

Walt Millet, Disciples Are Made Not Born: A Free Grace Distinctive

John Niemelä (1), Do People Believe in Jesus for Nothing? Clarifying Objects of Pisteuō

John Niemelä (2), Did Jesus’ First Disciples Testify Beyond Their Knowledge or Were They Already in the Know (John 1)?

Arch Rutherford, Heaven on Earth? (Revelation 21-22)

Philippe Sterling (1), Who Are the Overcomers and What Are the Promises Made to Them? (Revelation 2-3)

Philippe Sterling (2), Radical Gender Theory: The Assault on God’s Created Order

Bob Vacendak, The History of Assurance (500 AD to the Present)

Bob Wilkin, Q & A for Newbies

Dix Winston, The Declaration, Directives, and Dignity of Grace (Titus 2:11-14)

Kathryn Wright, Forgive and Forget? What Does Biblical Forgiveness Between Believers Mean?

Ken Yates, Basics of Free Grace Theology

Bruce Zimmerman, The Great Escape: How to Never Practice Church Discipline by Denying Believers Can Sin Badly

Registration

Register here: https://faithalone.org/shop/conference-registration/ges-2023-national-conference-registration/