> Imagine a fortress, absolutely impregnable, provisioned for an eternity. There comes a new commandant. He conceives that it might be a good idea to build bridges over the moats—so as to be able to attack the besiegers. Charming! He transforms the fortress into a countryseat, and naturally the enemy takes it. So it is with Christianity. They changed the method—and naturally the world conquered. -Soren Kierkegaard, Attack Upon "Christendom".

Please join us in reserving Friday, July 10, and Saturday, July 11, for the first ClearNote Fellowship Conference. [Click here to register now!](http://www.clearnotefellowship.org/2009ConferencePass)

**Weekend Schedule**

**Friday Evening – July 10**
6:30 - 7:00 Registration
7:00 - 8:00 Session 1
8:15 - 9:00 Mini-Concert

**Saturday – July 11**
9:00 – 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30 Session 2
11:00 – 12:00 Session 3
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 Session 4
Shelter __ at Karst Farm Park has been reserved on Saturday afternoon and evening for discussing what we’ve learned, sharing ministries, picnicking, and fellowship.

**Sunday – July 12**
Please join us at Church of the Good Shepherd for Sunday worship.
8:30-9:50 First Servie
10:00-10:45 Sunday School
11:00-12:20 Second Service

We’ll have sessions dealing with specific issues that confront the church today, and we’ll also be explaining our plans for the future of ClearNote Fellowship and ClearNote Pastor’s College. Pastors Tim Bayly, Stephen Baker and David Curell will be speaking at the conference sessions. The Good Shepherd Band will lead worship during each session, conduct a special session concerning church worship and music, and present a short concert.

**Conference Sessions**
**1. Who Will Stand?**
Scripture says that to be a Christian is to enlist for battle. But it's one thing for a Christian to be a soldier in name; it's another for him to stand and fight precisely where the battle rages. God has called us, charging us to repair the breach in the wall and to realize that truce with the enemy is not an option. Join us as we see how to stand firm at these gaps in the wall—and to recognize where the gaps are in the Church today.

**2. Fight or Flight?**
"Contextualization"—or the process of making Scriptural interpretation relevant to a modern setting—is precisely what everyone must claim to understand and do in order to join contemporary discussions of being “missional.” But who's doing what kind of contextualization? When the gap between Scripture and our society is clear, does contextualization mean an intentional advance or a studied retreat? Do we try to camouflage the gap, or do we stand precisely there, wielding the Sword of the Spirit? Come and learn why the faithful soldier of Jesus Christ contextualizes by igniting himself with zeal for God's truth at the precise place where the battle rages.

**3. Cheap Grace**
"It follows that if we preach the forgiveness of sins without repentance that the people imagine that they have already obtained the forgiveness of sins, becoming thereby secure and without compunction of conscience. This would be a greater error and sin than all the errors hitherto prevailing." -Martin Luther, Instructions to Parish Visitors

Today's evangelical knows forgiveness comes from God's grace, but too often he knows nothing about the grace of God's Law or the life of repentance. Learn why proclaiming forgiveness without concern for repentance produces "cheap grace," and why "grace" today has become a cliché used to avoid dealing with the gaps in the wall. Learn how true grace is costly enough to confront our sin and strong enough to conquer what we want to conceal.

**4. Worship Wars**
In corporate worship, does your congregation only sing pleasant and peaceful parlor songs, or is there martial music as well? Does the music of your corporate worship speak of the fear of God and the coming Judgment? Does it only comfort the afflicted, or does it also afflict the comfortable? Does it speak of sin, battle, Heaven, and Hell, or does it avoid these themes, speaking only in soft, assuring tones? In this session, the Good Shepherd Band will present and illustrate biblical worship that exalts Jesus Christ in His fullness as Prophet, Priest, and King.

In this conference, the first of many to come, the pastors of ClearNote Fellowship show how the Church has neglected its divine commission in favor of cultural accommodation, and how biblical faith engages the enemy precisely where the battle rages rather than masking the points of contention. Pastors and elders, deacons and small group leaders, students, families—if you love Christ and His Church, you will benefit from this Scriptural encouragement that proclaims faith in God’s truth as our victory.