“GIVING CHRIST PRE-EMINENCE IN THE CHURCH”: A Bible Conference

“GIVING CHRIST PRE-EMINENCE IN THE CHURCH”

Presentations by Jon Zens on re-thinking what “church” is at every level.

When: August 27-28, 2010

Where: LeRoy Community Center, Main Street, LeRoy, MN 55951

Contacts: Dale Martin, 507-657-2590; Jon Zens, 715-338-2796

Gatherings (each session will be followed by a time for audience response and Q & A):

**Friday, August 27, 7:00pm – Christ is the Fullness of God in a Body / The Church is the Body of Christ on Earth (Colossians 1)

**Saturday, August 28

10am – Christ is Present on Earth Through the Church (Matt.18:20, 1 Cor.12)

**2pm – Obstacles to Christ’s Pre-eminence: The Traditions of Men (Mark 7)

**7pm – Restoring Christ’s Pre-eminence in the Church (1 Cor.1,5,6,14)

**At the end of each session retirees Dick & Shirley Scherz from Rice Lake WI will be giving brief testimony to what these perspectives have meant in their lives since 1992**

(A table with literature will be provided)

About LeRoy 
LeRoy is a viable community of just under 1,000 population located north of the Minnesota-Iowa border 40 miles south of Rochester and 30 miles southeast of Austin. State Route 56 goes through downtown LeRoy and the other Prairie Visions towns of Taopi, Adams, and Rose Creek to Interstate 90 northwest 26 miles. It is seven miles west to U.S. 63, a widely-traveled route connecting northeast Iowa with southeast Minnesota.   Http://www.visitleroy.com/newresidents.HTML

Hotel LeRoy

128 West Main St, LeRoy MN 55951

507-324-9546

Spring Valley Inns & Suites

745 N. Broadway Ave.

Spring Valley MN 55975

888-254-6835

Shady Rest Motel

710 N. Broadway Ave.

Spring Valley MN 55975

507-346-2625

Parkview Motel

1401 South Section Ave

Spring Valley MN 55975

507-346-2861 

For those who have RV’s or wish to camp:

Lake Louise State Park

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Jon Zens has a wide-ranging theological background. He holds a B.A. In Biblical studies from Covenant College, a M.Div. (church history) from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and a D.Min. (Ethics) from the California Graduate School of Theology. Jon’s groundbreaking articles in the late 1970s, “Is There a ‘Covenant of Grace’?” and “Crucial Thoughts on ‘Law’ in the New Covenant,” were highly instrumental in developing what came to be called “New Covenant Theology.” Jon’s doctoral thesis was published in an edited form in 1997 as “‘This is My Beloved Son, Hear Him’: The Foundation for New Covenant Ethics and Ecclesiology.” He is also the author of the new book A Church Building Every 1/2 Mile: What Makes American Christianity Tick?, which appeared in 2008. His What’s With Paul & Women: Unlocking the Cultural Background to 1 Timothy 2 was published in 2010.

For the past thirty-two years, Jon has been the editor of a magazine entitled Searching Together. He has done considerable research concerning the NT and church history. Jon also served as a pastor for two years, but moved on after concluding that full reformation within the existing institutional church system was unworkable.

Since 1975 Jon & Dotty have been in and working with informal fellowships, focusing on living under grace and learning to extend grace to others.  They have traveled all over America and ministered in the Philippines, England, Romania, Canada, New Zealand, and Ireland.

From 1970-1975 and 1985 – 2000, Jon worked in three manufacturing companies in aerospace production planning, inside sales, inventory control, engineering support, human resources, purchasing and shipping/receiving.  Jon and Dotty have three lovely children and six wonderful grandchildren.