Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris and we're going to be talking about a conference that's going on right now out in Iowa at Doort College.

It's called the Prodigal Love of God,

re-enc countering Dort at 400 and beyond.

And someone out in Iowa said, you know,

you really ought to look at this and do a video on it.

And this was a couple weeks ago, and I at it and I said well no one's actually spoken yet but I do see the description and my suspicion is

There's probably going to be an intention because I see

Jemartizbee speaking and other social justice

advocates.

There will be this idea that the reformation doctrine

of the priesthood of all believers is actually

this egalitarian battle cry.

And the reason I suspected that was because the

description says, Dorch seems to leave us a complicated historical

legacy of arid doctrinalism.

But in contrast to that that there's also these profound

theological truths that continue to inspire many ecumenical conversations

across the Christian traditions. So that means not the five points of Calvinism but the other things that every Christian tradition can share in common you know we're going to talk about those things

In the cannons of Dorit we encounter the prodigal of God who offers the blessing of the gospel to all

persons promiscuously and without distinction. And I thought, well, given the list of speakers, I bet you that's what they're going to do.

And I think I was probably right because what ended up

happening was I asked the individual who wanted me to do a video I said do you

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