Join us on Thursday, October 22nd for two lectures and a Q&A time with Owen Strachan (see bio below).  Our time will be spent learning about how the gospel impacts our views and practices with regard to the gender issues of our day.  With a special emphasis on equipping pastors to minister with gospel faithfulness, Dr. Strachan will show how complementarianism is God's design for the home and church. 

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The Spurgeon Fellowship is a ministry which seeks to help pastors, lay elders and men training for ministry to go deep with the gospel in all facets of personal and congreational life.  We desire to deepen the character and competency of God's leaders. Three times a year we invite leading, gospel-centered, evangelical pastors and theolgians to come and build their knowledge and experience into our local patoral community.  We're thankful for our partnership with Western Seminary, Crossway, and The Gospel Coalition.

 

Owen Strachan serves as the Acossiate Professor of Christian Theolgoy, and the Director of the Center for Theological and Cultural Engagement as Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Maine native is a graduate of Bowdoin College (A.B.inHistory), Southern Seminary (M.Div. in Biblical & Theological Studies), and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Ph.D. in Theological Studies). In roles within the SBC and greater Evangelical sphere, Dr. Strachan serves as president of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood.

He is also a contributing writer for The Gospel Coalition, a research fellow of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC, and a fellow of the Center for Pastor-Theologians.
At SBTS, Dr. Strachan was director of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement, and at Boyce College, he served as chair of Gospel & Culture. Prior to his time in Louisville, Strachan was the full-time managing director of the Carl F.H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and associate director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at TEDS, which is in Deerfield, Ill.

A well-established writer, Dr. Strachan has published six books, including: Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome; editor of The Pastor as Scholar, the Scholar as Pastor: Reflections on Life and Ministry by John Piper and D.A. Carson;Jonathan Edwards, Lover of God; Jonathan Edwards on Beauty; Jonathan Edwards on the Good Life; Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity; and Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell. In 2015, Strachan will have five more works published: The Colson Way (Thomas Nelson); Reawakening the Evangelical Mind(Zondervan); The Pastor as Public Theologian (Baker); Designed for Joy (Crossway); and Essential Evangelicalism: The Enduring Influence of Carl F.H. Henry (Crossway).

Strachan has written academic journal articles for Themelios, Trinity Journal, Fides et Historia, Journal for Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology, and Theology for Ministry. Further, he has authored popular articles for The Atlantic, Washington Post, First Things, The American Spectator, The City, and Christianity Today. He writes regularly for 9Marks, The Stream and his Patheos blog, “Thoughtlife,” which was ranked a top-100 Christian website by ChurchRelevance.com. He speaks regularly for churches and conferences, and has been profiled in World Magazine as a young evangelical leader and by Baptist Press for his pro-life work.

Dr. Strachan is married to Bethany and together they have three children.