Trinity Annual Conference

LPL Module - Methodist Doctrine (23rd March / 6th April / 13th April 2019)

Course Description
This is a tutored course in Methodist doctrine and polity designed specifically for those seeking a Licence to Preach.  Those who wish to take this course as audit are also welcome.  This course includes a chronological summary of John Wesley’s life and ministry, study on key aspects of Methodist doctrine, the outline history of Methodism in Malaysia, and a survey of the Methodist Discipline.

Course Requirement (for those taking as a credit course):

Require reading:

• The Scripture Way of Salvation, Kenneth J. Collins. Nashville, Abingdon, 1997.
• Wesley and the People Called Methodists, Richard P. Heitzenrater. Nashville,  Abingdon Press, 1995.
• “Christianity in Malaysia”:A denominational history, Robert Hunt et. al. (ed.), Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk Publications 1992 (On Methodist History only)
• Methodist Book of Discipline 2016

*LPL Course 2019 for credits and audits*
_Methodist Doctrine_ (Compulsory Module) 

For candidates in Bercham, please call BMC office to register.
For other candidates, please call CGMC office at 05-5462023 to register 

Closing Date: 20th March 2019

Click here to download registration form

23rd March; 6th & 13th April 2019

Bercham Methodist Church, Ipoh

Rev Dr Andrew Tan

LPL Module - Old Testament

Outline of LPL Module
The Intensive Study Weekend Module is intended to provide :

• a survey and introduction to the 39 books in the Old Testament
• understanding the context of the Old Testament, i.e. its historical, cultural and the socio-religious background.

Resources:

1. Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
   (Compulsory pre-reading for the course, except for NT Chapters 3,4,6,7,8,13)
2. J. Drane, Introducing the Old Testament (Oxford: Lynx, 1987)
3. W. Dumbrell, The Faith of Israel (London: Apollos, 1989).
4. Tremper Longman III and Raymond B. Dillard,  Understanding the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006, 2nd ed)
5. William Sanford Lasor, David Allan Hubbard, Frederic William Bush, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament 2nd Edition
6. Bruce K. Waltke and Charles Yu, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach

Timetable

Additional Resources:

1. Fredrick Carlson Holmgren and Walter Brueggemann, The Old Testament and the Significance of Jesus: Embracing Change -Maintaining Christian Identity
2. Gordon Wenham, The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms
3. David Noel Friedman, The Unity of the Hebrew Bible (The Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture Series)

Assignment 1: 3 months from date of course (closing date 15 Oct 2019)

Length of essay: 2,500-3000 words. All assignments in word doc. format, font size 12, Times Roman, 1.5 spacing.

The Jews placed the Torah as the highest portion of their scripture and everything else rests on the Torah.

• Give a brief discussion for each book in the Torah.
• Comment on the shape and structure of the Torah - why are the books arranged in this way and its significance.
• Lastly, how is the Jewish Torah relevant for Christians?

Assignment 2: 6 months from date of course (closing date 15 Jan 2020)

Choose one of the topics below. Write an essay of 2500-3000 words. All assignments in word doc. format, font size 12, Times Roman, 1.5 spacing.

1. The Old Testament & New Testament form a unified whole. Do you agree?
2. Pick a favourite Psalm and discuss its form and message.
3. Survey the Twelve Minor Prophets and write about their forth-telling ministry.

Please send your completed assignments to:
Rev. Joshua Khong at joshkhong@gmail.com

*LPL Course 2019 for credits and audits*
_Old Testament_ (Compulsory Module) 

To register please contact Mr Abel How at 010-463 5976 and email your registration to sitiawan.wmc@gmail.com. Cost RM25 only for 3 teas and one lunch.  

13-14 July 2019

Wesley Methodist Church, Sitiawan

Rev Joshua Khong

LPL Module - Youth Ministry

_Youth Ministry_ (Elective) 

To register please contact Mr Abel How at 010-463 5976 and email your registration to sitiawan.wmc@gmail.com. Cost RM25 only for 3 teas and one lunch.  

10-11 August 2019

Wesley Methodist Church, Sitiawan

Dr Herbert Tan

LPL Module - Christian Doctrine

Course Description
This is a tutored course in Methodist doctrine and polity designed specifically for those seeking a Licence to Preach.  Those who wish to take this course as audit are also welcome.  This course includes a chronological summary of John Wesley’s life and ministry, study on key aspects of Methodist doctrine, the outline history of Methodism in Malaysia, and a survey of the Methodist Discipline.:

Course Requirement:

1. Lectures
   The LPL candidate must attend all the lectures, on both days. Anyone who does not fully attend both days of lectures will be considered as not having fulfilled the course requirements required for passing this module. Attendance will be taken on both days.
    
2. Required reading:
   • To read BEFORE course:
     Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew (Grand Rapids: Zondervan & Manila: OMF, 1995).
   • AFTER lectures:
     Bruce Milne, Know the Truth—A Handbook of Christian Belief, 3rd ed., (Nottingham & Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 2009).
     James I Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1993).
   • To use for daily devotion for 2019/20:
     John Stott, Through the Bible Through the Year (Abingdon: Lion, 2006).
3. Assignments to be given at the time of the course.

*LPL Course 2019 for credits and audits*
_Christian Doctrine_ (Compulsory Module) 

To register please contact Mr Abel How at 010-463 5976 and email your registration to sitiawan.wmc@gmail.com. Cost RM25 only for 3 teas and one lunch.  

28-29 September 2019

Wesley Methodist Church, Sitiawan

Bishop Emeritus Dr Hwa Yung

LPL Module - Christian History

About Church History LPL Elective Course
This course, The Cloud of Witnesses, covers the period of Augustine to John Calvin.
Church History is the contemplation of all those forces and influences and factors and external situations that have moved the church first this way and then that.
Church history is the contemplation of the forces that compelled the church to change its direction to alter its beliefs, to revise its traditions.
Church history is the contemplation of the myriad little changes that the church has had to make in a wide variety of areas in order to continue to function effectively in a rapidly changing world.
But church history is also the contemplation of those basic tenets of faith, those fundamental and bedrock concepts without which the church could not be the church.
Through church history we can come to a detailed understanding of that which is basic, that which is central, that which is unchanging. For it is only these that have survived the tests of history; it is only these that have continued unchanged through the centuries of the church’s existence.
Among these bedrock values is the belief in a transcendent and immanent God, a God who is both totally other yet a God who is with us, walks with us, shares our life with us.
Thus the study of church history is fundamentally the contemplation of the lives and times of individual persons. Our theology, our faith, the reality of God is nothing if it is not lived out in the lives of ordinary people.
The persons chosen for considerations in this series were quite ordinary people: Augustine, Gregory, Leo, the early monks and nuns, those enraptured by the crusading spirit, Aquinas, Erasmus, Huss, Wycliffe, Joan, Savonarola, Gerard – all these people too commenced their life of faith as do you and I. And even the giant – Luther and Calvin – struggled long and hard to discover God’s will for their lives.
So Church History is a window on the world of faith, a window through which we can look at ourselves.
Participants who sign up for this course are required to read in advance the 8 booklets, attend the weekend course and complete the assignment.

_Church History_ (Elective) 

To register please contact Mr Abel How at 010-463 5976 and email your registration to sitiawan.wmc@gmail.com. Cost RM25 only for 3 teas and one lunch.  

5-6 October 2019

Wesley Methodist Church, Sitiawan

Ms Aileen Khoo