I'm in the Chicago area, ready for the 2nd Annual Ancient Evangelical Future Conference to begin tomorrow.

Hosted on the campus of Northern Seminary, here's what the various presenters and subsequent discussion will  focus on over the next two days:

We call for a return to the priority of the divinely authorized canonical story of the Triune God. This story-Creation, Incarnation, and Re-creation-was effected by Christ's recapitulation of human history and summarized by the early Church in its Rules of Faith.  The gospel-formed content of these Rules served as the key to the interpretation of Scripture and its critique of contemporary culture, and thus shaped the church's pastoral ministry.  Today, we call Evangelicals to turn away from modern theological methods that reduce the gospel to mere propositions, and from contemporary pastoral ministries so compatible with culture that they camouflage God's story or empty it of its cosmic and redemptive meaning.  In a world of competing stories, we call Evangelicals to recover the truth of God's word as the story of the world, and to make it the centerpiece of Evangelical life.

I'll be blogging during the conference, and invite you to drop-in and join the conversation!