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Each year the conference focuses on a special theme relating to the task of preaching.
The workshop sessions and general sessions center on this theme and also address
broader issues about preaching and church ministry.
MACP 2009 "Gospel-Driven Separation"
Speakers: David Doran, Sam Horn, and the DBTS Faculty (Robert McCabe, R. Bruce Compton, Gerald Priest, Sam Dawson, Mark Snoeberger, and Pearson Johnson)
Topics: The Sine Qua Non of Separatism; Identifying the Disobedient Brother; Defining Fellowship and Compromise; Worldliness and Ecclesiastical Separation; Contending Without Contentiousness: A Paradigm for Polemics in Early Fundamentalism; A Reflection on Paul’s Defense of the Gospel in Romans and Its Implications for Separation; Who Needs Fundamentalism When We Have T4G and TGC? A Continuing Fundamentalist Raison d’ętre; Principles (or Questions) for Navigating Mission Field Relationships; Church Discipline: Separation from a Believer or Excommunication of an Unbeliever? Comparing Matthew 18:15-17, 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 & 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15; An Old Testament Justification for Separatism; The Practice of Biblical Worship; The Perversion of Biblical Worship
Resource material from MACP 2009, including all general sessions and workshops, is available for free download at http://www.dbts.edu/5-1/5-12.asp. Printed notes are in PDF format and sound recordings in MP3 format.
Those wishing to order a complete conference CD (containing MP3s of all sessions)
, will need to make a purchase through the Inter-City Christian Bookstore. An order form can be downloaded by clicking here. Please contact the bookstore at one of the following: website: www.icbooks.com; email: info@icbooks.com; Phone (313) 383-6110, or Fax (313) 928-8210. Questions should be directed to macp@dbts.edu.
MACP 2008 "Culture, Contextualization, and the Church"
Speakers included Drew Conley, Sam Horn, David Doran, and the faculty of DBTS (Rolland McCune, William Combs, Robert McCabe, R. Bruce Compton, Gerald Priest, Sam Dawson, Mark Snoeberger, and Pearson Johnson)
- Drew Conley is the Senior Pastor at Hampton Park Baptist Church in Greenville, SC)
- Sam Horn is the Senior Pastor at Brookside Baptist Church in Brookfield, WI. He also serves as Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Ministerial Training at Northland Baptist Bible College in Dunbar, WI.
- David Doran is the Senior Pastor at Inter-City Baptist Church in Allen Park, MI. He also serves as the President of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary
Topics: The Essence of Expositional Preaching; Sanctification, Standards, and Slippery Slopes; Contemporary Challenges for Biblical Separatism; A Pastor’s Guide to Contextualization; A Pastor’s Concerns about Possible Contextualization Abuses; An Assessment and Response to Tim Keller’s Theology of the City; Confronting our Culture When the Culture Comes to Church; Confronting our Culture When the Church is in the Culture (1 Corinthians 9); Applying Ancient Truth to a Contemporary Audience – Application in Preaching; The Character of and Effective Ministry in the Midst of a Pagan Culture – 1 Thess 2:1-12; Acts 17:1-9—Turning the World Right Side Up; John 17:14-19—How Christians Must See the World; Marks of Worldliness, Scripturally Defined; Ephesians 4:17-24—New Life, Clean Break; A Leading Challenge to a Literal Interpretation of the Creation Account: The Literary Framework Interpretation; Paul and Educated Unbelief (Acts 17); Persevering in the Faith and the ‘Sin unto Death’: Harmonizing Text (1 John 5:16-17) and Theology; When Church Historians Distort the Truth: The Problem of Cultural Agenda Dictating Interpretation; A Review of John Frame’s The Doctrine of the Christian Life (A Theology of Lordship), A Perspective on Culture; More Notes Toward the Definition of Culture; A Review of D.A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited; Common Ground: The Quicksand of Evangelism and Missions.
Click here to download a copy of the MACP brochure in PDF format.
Resource material from MACP 2008, including all general sessions and workshops, is now available for free download at http://www.dbts.edu/5-1/5-12.asp. Printed notes are in PDF format and sound recordings in MP3 format.
Those wishing to order a complete conference CD (containing MP3s of all sessions)
, will need to make a purchase through the Inter-City Christian Bookstore. An order form can be downloaded by clicking here. Please contact the bookstore at one of the following: website: www.icbooks.com; email: info@icbooks.com; Phone (313) 383-6110, or Fax (313) 928-8210. Questions should be directed to macp@dbts.edu.
MACP 2007 "Learning from the Past, Pressing toward the Future "
Click here to download a copy of the MACP 2007 brochure.
Click here to download an order form for MACP 2007 media resources.
Speakers included:
- David Doran & the faculty of DBTS
- Doug McLachlan (Northland Baptist Bible College - Dunbar, WI)
- Mark Minnick (Senior Pastor at Mount Calvary Baptist Church; Professor of Homiletics at Bob Jones University-Greenville, SC)
- Sam Horn (Senior Pastor at Brookside Baptist Church-Brookfield, WI; VP for Academic Affairs and Ministerial Training at Northland Baptist Bible College-Dunbar, WI)
- Dave Saxon (Professor of Bible and Church History, Maranatha Baptist Bible College-Watertown, WI)
MACP 2006 "Worthy of Double Honor: Feeding and Leading God's Flock"
Speakers included:
- Dr. David Doran & the faculty of DBTS
- Dr. Stephen Jones (Bob Jones University-Greenville, SC)
- Dr. Tim Jordan (Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary-Lansdale, PA)
- Dr. Sam Horn (Brookside Baptist Church-Brookfield, WI; VP for Academic Affairs and Ministerial Training at Northland Baptist Bible College-Dunbar, WI)
MACP 2005 "Guarding the Gospel"
Click here
to download a copy of the MACP 2005 brochure.
Speakers included:
- Dr. David Doran & the faculty of DBTS
- Dr. Mark Minnick (Mount Calvary Baptist Church & Bob Jones University-Greenville, SC)
- Dr. Kevin Bauder (Central Baptist Theological Seminary-Plymouth, MN)
- Dr. Sam Horn (Brookside Baptist Church-Brookfield, WI; VP for Academic Affairs and Ministerial Training at Northland Baptist Bible College-Dunbar, WI)
MACP 2004 "Church Growth that Glorifies God"
Each year the conference focuses on a special theme relating to the task of preaching.
The workshop sessions and general sessions center on this theme and also address
broader issues about preaching and church ministry. This year's conference theme
is "Church Growth that Glorifies God." Click here
to download a copy of the MACP 2004 brochure.
Speakers included:
- Dr. David Doran & the faculty of DBTS
- Dr. Drew Conley (Hampton Park Baptist Church-Greenville, SC)
- Dr. Sam Horn (Northland Baptist Bible College-Dunbar, WI)
- Pastor Ken Brown (Community Baptist Church-Brownstown, MI)
- Pastor Dave Saxton (Berean Bible Church-Cuyahoga Falls, OH)
MACP 2003
- On October
16-17 the 14th Mid-America Conference on Preaching was held at Inter-City
Baptist Church. The theme for MACP 2003 was "The Ministry of the Holy Spirit." Click here
to download a copy of the MACP 2003 brochure. Audio recordings are still available
for purchase. The conference CD-ROM is a particularly good value. It contains
a printable file for all workshop notes and an audio file for all general
sessions and workshops. For more information on the conference or to order
recordings please send an e-mail to macp@dbts.edu.
- Click
here to
dowload an order form for media resources from the MACP 2003 Conference.
- Click here
to listen to selected sermons from the MACP 2003 Conference.
MACP 2002
- On October
17-18 the 13th Mid-America Conference on Preaching was held at Inter-City
Baptist Church. The theme for MACP 2002 was "The Sovereignty of God and the
Spread of the Gospel." Click here
to download a copy of the MACP 2002 brochure. Speakers included Dr. David
Doran and the faculty of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, along with
guest speakers Dr. Mark Minnick, Dr. Daniel Davey and Dr. Sam Horn. Audio
recordings are still available for purchase. The conference CD-ROM is a particularly
good value. It contains a printable file for all workshop notes and an audio
file for all general sessions and workshops. For more information on the conference
or to order recordings please send an e-mail to macp@dbts.edu.
- Click
here
to dowload an order form for media resources from the MACP 2002 Conference.
MACP 2001
The
entire conference, "Fundamentalism at the Start of the 21st Century," is available
in CD format for only $25.00 (postage included). The conference CD (computer
format only, PC only) includes the following:
- Audio
recording of all messages - general sessions, workshop sessions, and ladies'
sessions
- Printable
copy of the notes for all general sessions, workshop sessions, and ladies
sessions
- Click
here for a
list of the workshop topics.
- Click
here for
other helpful conference information.
- Click
here
for biographical information of the speakers.
Contact the seminary for more information or order directly by sending payment to:
DBTS
MACP Recordings
4801 Allen Road
Allen Park, MI 48101
The seminary is not currently set up to accept on-line orders or credit card orders
by telephone.
MACP 1996-2000:
Examples of previous conference themes are shown here. Contact the seminary office
for specific information on obtaining recordings on cassette tape for earlier
conferences.
- 1996
(Spring) "Building Strong Families Through the Word of God"
- 1996
(Fall) "Do the Work of an Evangelist"
- 1997 "The Ministry of the Word and Prayer"
- 1998 "Reflections on Revival"
- 1999 "Feeding and Leading God's People into the 21st Century"
- 2000 "Accurately Handling the Word of Truth"
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