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April 21st, 2006

Cheltenham Bible Festival

bible festivalThe Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches is now competing with the Greenbelt festival on its own quite literal turf. The ‘Bible Festival’ will be at the Cheltenham racecourse from the 7th to the 9th of August 2007 (Thursday-Saturday to avoid festivalling on a Sunday). Their website will be biblefestival.com, but isn’t up and running yet. Headline act will be top exegetical preacher Don Carson.

I’ve been sent all the advertising blurb and have been offered the ‘possibility of having your own marquee and running your own seminars’. Oooh. Seminars. I could do a good seminar. Any requests for topics?

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9 Responses to “Cheltenham Bible Festival”


  1. Neil says:

    Will there be an Ale tent?

    April 21st, 2006 at 11:59 am
  2. Dave says:

    Good question Neil. It would probably depend upon whether the Ale tent suppliers could sign the doctrinal basis. It might well be that someone planning to run a non-alcoholic grape juice tent would stand a better chance.

    April 21st, 2006 at 12:09 pm
  3. Kristen (Thoughts from the Bus Stop) says:

    How about, ” ‘Tooning for the Lord: How to breathe life into sermon Powerpoints “?

    April 21st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
  4. Liz says:

    They look like just my sort of people:

    From their Basis of Faith:

    “The Bible alone speaks with final authority and is always sufficient for all matters of belief and practice.”

    Which is nice. No need for any of that messy stuff like a living God.

    And of course from the special For Women’s area of the website:

    “We uphold the Biblical perspective that God calls men to the primary leadership role in family and church. Within that framework, we believe that women have been gifted with all sorts of complementary gifts, and that our churches are poorer if these gifts are not developed and used.”

    Happily I’ve been developing my ‘complimentary gift’ of kicking misogynest’s arses.

    Ooooooh ooooh! Dave, can you ask if I can do a seminar on that?

    I’ll bring my own marquee and everything.

    ;-)

    April 21st, 2006 at 2:17 pm
  5. Dave says:

    Liz, I was concerned about posting this as I was worried you might defect and start organising the ‘other festival’. You have gone some small way towards allaying my fears.

    April 21st, 2006 at 3:15 pm
  6. Freedom Bound says:

    Is men’s leadership called “primary” cos they still have to line up in pairs, ask teacher if they can go for a wee and colour in in crayons….and cry if they don’t get their own way?

    And my Bible has never “spoken”………am I taking the wrong doctines?

    Liz – can I book a seat in the front row of your seminar? Preferably one like Dave’s Greenbelt guide….. LOL

    April 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pm
  7. Liz says:

    Dave – contrary to the Groucho maxim, I think that in this case I’m unlikely to want to join a club that wouldn’t properly recognise me as a member.

    Freedom Bound – love that definition of primary! Consider your seat reserved in pride of place in my hypothetical seminar ;-)

    April 23rd, 2006 at 6:49 pm
  8. Anon (sorry) says:

    Complimentary role… what about a complimetary ham sandwich?

    April 29th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
  9. Flick and Ginger says:

    Yes, maybe FIEC takes itself too seriously sometimes – the blog gave me a chance to laugh at ourselves! Thanks. But we ARE serious about what we believe – even if the language we use seems, at times, antiquated.

    I hope the sun shines on GB again this year – last August we had great weather most of the time. Cheltenham Bible Festival won’t compete – of that I am sure. We’re each aiming at different markets with different products and I hope both prove successful.

    May 11th, 2006 at 4:12 pm