The Tasmania Women’s Bible Conference is
exactly that! It’s an annual day conference held in Tasmania, for women whose desire is to have their minds, hearts, and lives shaped by the Bible. The conference is held both in the North (Launceston – 4th April) and in the South (Hobart 28th March) of the state.Both were fantastic days where women of all ages and from all different churches came together to learn from Gods word and to encourage each other!
This year we heard Louisa Pfitzner (from Sydney), who gave two challenging talks from the book of 2 Peter on the topic of Knowing God. In the first talk we heard how we can know God truly through Jesus and we have to watch out that we don’t fall into false teaching which threatens our knowledge of God.
The second talk was how God has graciously given us knowledge about him. He has given us all that we need for knowledge and salvation. Yet knowledge still requires energy and hard work. Yes, we have life and godliness through grace, but we still have to make every effort to train in godliness. Grace and works must go together.
So, as you can see both of these talks were very challenging and it’s our prayer that all the women who went along would continue thinking about these things and will know God!
There was also a choice of electives to go to which ranged from the Trinity, to the existence of God, spiritual warfare, image and affluence, marriage, depression, and guidance. These were a great chance to hear from other women about different aspects of Gods character and to learn from each other more of what Gods word teaches us.
So, the conference is over for another year, but next years are already starting to get moving!! The dates are set for Saturday 20th March in the South and on the 27th March in the North, so for all those in Tassie, keep your date free!
The second talk was how God has graciously given us knowledge about him. He has given us all that we need for knowledge and salvation. Yet knowledge still requires energy and hard work. Yes, we have life and godliness through grace, but we still have to make every effort to train in godliness. Grace and works must go together.
So, as you can see both of these talks were very challenging and it’s our prayer that all the women who went along would continue thinking about these things and will know God!
There was also a choice of electives to go to which ranged from the Trinity, to the existence of God, spiritual warfare, image and affluence, marriage, depression, and guidance. These were a great chance to hear from other women about different aspects of Gods character and to learn from each other more of what Gods word teaches us.
So, the conference is over for another year, but next years are already starting to get moving!! The dates are set for Saturday 20th March in the South and on the 27th March in the North, so for all those in Tassie, keep your date free!
What do you think? Any comments/questions/suggestions?
Hey Jess,
ReplyDeleteThats great you can do a write up for TWBC. What you have written is excellent, just a few grammatical issues which no doubt the editors will pick up. One suggestion would be to give a little background to Women's ministry in Tasmania and our goals for women here - why we started the conference in the first place. Does that make sense?? Good on you for doing it!
Thats a great idea - thanks heaps Jack!
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