Wilderness Conversations

Part 4 of 7 parts, it might have been assumed that once the war finished, there would be less need to demonstrate ones conscience against military activity, but this was certainly not the case. In fact after a short reprieve, after the National Security Act expired on December 31 1946, with development of the Cold War, the Korean War and communist advances in South East Asia the new Prime Minister, R. G. Menzies successfully introduced new legislation to parliament in 1951 which involved conscription. This was in place until it was repealed in 1972 by the new Prime Minister, G Whitlam.

In 2007 the AACE – the Association of Australian Christadelphian Ecclesias published a book entitled:

“Conscience in Action – the experience of conscientious objection in Australia”

The book Summary says the following:

As brothers and sisters in Christ, while respecting those placed in authority over us and the laws they enact and administer (Rom 13:1-7), we stand for the principles of Christ in relation to our conscientious objection to military service and related activities, and to political involvement in our country. We try to follow the commandments of Christ that we do not fight because we are his servants and his kingdom ‘is not of this world’ (John 18:36). We do not participate in political activities because we are ‘strangers and pilgrims’ in this world (1 Peter 2:11), looking for God’s kingdom to be established at the return of His Son.

The book is both descriptive but exhortational, out lining the reasons for the principled stand and how that was enacted by brethren and sisters down through these years.

Information was collected from many sources including and most importantly in the case of this podcast – accounts of personal experiences.

Thankfully in the couple of years leading up to the publication, a number of oral accounts of the personal experiences of brothers and sisters were recorded. Now nearly 20 years on, many of these brothers and sisters have subsequently fallen asleep in the Lord making these recordings a treasured resource indeed.

The recordings are available with the book, but we reproduce them here in part for convenience and for those who don’t have a copy of the book.

But we do encourage you to get a copy and it is available at AACE.info.

www.wildernessconversation.com

In 2007 the AACE – the Association of Australian Christadelphian Ecclesias published a book entitled:

“Conscience in Action – the experience of conscientious objection in Australia”

The book Summary says the following:

As brothers and sisters in Christ, while respecting those placed in authority over us and the laws they enact and administer (Rom 13:1-7), we stand for the principles of Christ in relation to our conscientious objection to military service and related activities, and to political involvement in our country. We try to follow the commandments of Christ that we do not fight because we are his servants and his kingdom ‘is not of this world’ (John 18:36). We do not participate in political activities because we are ‘strangers and pilgrims’ in this world (1 Peter 2:11), looking for God’s kingdom to be established at the return of His Son.

The book is both descriptive but exhortational, out lining the reasons for the principled stand and how that was enacted by brethren and sisters down through these years.

Information was collected from many sources including and most importantly in the case of this podcast – accounts of personal experiences.

Thankfully in the couple of years leading up to the publication, a number of oral accounts of the personal experiences of brothers and sisters were recorded. Now nearly 20 years on, many of these brothers and sisters have subsequently fallen asleep in the Lord making these recordings a treasured resource indeed.

The recordings are available with the book, but we reproduce them here in part for convenience and for those who don’t have a copy of the book.

But we do encourage you to get a copy and it is available at AACE.info.

www.wildernessconversations.com

In 2007 the AACE – the Association of Australian Christadelphian Ecclesias published a book entitled:

“Conscience in Action – the experience of conscientious objection in Australia”

The book Summary says the following:

As brothers and sisters in Christ, while respecting those placed in authority over us and the laws they enact and administer (Rom 13:1-7), we stand for the principles of Christ in relation to our conscientious objection to military service and related activities, and to political involvement in our country. We try to follow the commandments of Christ that we do not fight because we are his servants and his kingdom ‘is not of this world’ (John 18:36). We do not participate in political activities because we are ‘strangers and pilgrims’ in this world (1 Peter 2:11), looking for God’s kingdom to be established at the return of His Son.

The book is both descriptive but exhortational, out lining the reasons for the principled stand and how that was enacted by brethren and sisters down through these years.

Information was collected from many sources including and most importantly in the case of this podcast – accounts of personal experiences.

Thankfully in the couple of years leading up to the publication, a number of oral accounts of the personal experiences of brothers and sisters were recorded. Now nearly 20 years on, many of these brothers and sisters have subsequently fallen asleep in the Lord making these recordings a treasured resource indeed.

The recordings are available with the book, but we reproduce them here in part for convenience and for those who don’t have a copy of the book.

But we do encourage you to get a copy and it is available at AACE.info.

www.wildernessconversations.com

In 2007 the AACE – the Association of Australian Christadelphian Ecclesias published a book entitled:

“Conscience in Action – the experience of conscientious objection in Australia”

The book Summary says the following:

As brothers and sisters in Christ, while respecting those placed in authority over us and the laws they enact and administer (Rom 13:1-7), we stand for the principles of Christ in relation to our conscientious objection to military service and related activities, and to political involvement in our country. We try to follow the commandments of Christ that we do not fight because we are his servants and his kingdom ‘is not of this world’ (John 18:36). We do not participate in political activities because we are ‘strangers and pilgrims’ in this world (1 Peter 2:11), looking for God’s kingdom to be established at the return of His Son.

The book is both descriptive but exhortational, out lining the reasons for the principled stand and how that was enacted by brethren and sisters down through these years.

Information was collected from many sources including and most importantly in the case of this podcast – accounts of personal experiences.

Thankfully in the couple of years leading up to the publication, a number of oral accounts of the personal experiences of brothers and sisters were recorded. Now nearly 20 years on, many of these brothers and sisters have subsequently fallen asleep in the Lord making these recordings a treasured resource indeed.

The recordings are available with the book, but we reproduce them here in part for convenience and for those who don’t have a copy of the book.

But we do encourage you to get a copy and it is available at AACE.info.

www.wildernessconversations.com

Jacky Philips has been a member of the church or ecclesia that meets at Brighton in South Australia for many years.

Jacky was born in the UK during the war and moved to Australia as a young mother and has an extraordinary story to tell.

Jacky shares her story with us on Wilderness Conversations.

www.wildernessconversations.com

Kel Hammond lives in Sydney and for many years has been a member of the Christadelphian Church or ecclesia at Yagoona.

Recently Kel published a paper entitled “The Apostles’ Doctrine – The Foundation of NT Faith”. A link to the paper is attached. Kel discusses “the Apostles Doctrine” on Wilderness conversations.

www.wildernessconversations.com

Mark Dennes lives in Sydney and for many years has been a member of the Christadelphian Church or ecclesia that meets at Riverwood.

Recently Mark has done some work on what the scriptures refers to as –

“a sin unto death”

What is this sin that will not be forgiven and have we committed it?

Mark shares his findings on Wilderness Conversations.

You can find the presentation Mark prepared here.

www.wildernessconversations.com

David and Kathryn Pearce live in the UK.

David’s first preaching trip to Russia was in 1994, followed by the Ukraine in 1995, and Kazakhstan in 2003. David and Kathryn have continued the preaching work in Eastern Europe making around four trips every year for Bible Schools and welfare visits and in 1998 implemented the Cherith parcel scheme, which sends around 400 parcels a year from UK brothers and sisters to Christadelphian families in Eastern Europe.

David and Kathryn talk about their experiences in the past and the changes that are happening at the moment in the UK.

www.wildernessconversations.com

James McCann lives in Sydney and is a member of the Christadelphian church or ecclesia that meets at Riverwood.

James provides a critique of postmodernism and the way it is influencing the world around us and has the potential to influence us as believers.

A PDF version of a presentation James recently gave is available here.

www.wildernessconversations.com

Colin Byrnes and Mathew Jamieson live in Sydney. Colin is a member of the Christadelphian church or ecclesia at Castle Hill and Mathew a member of the church or ecclesia that meets at Punchbowl in Sydney.

Colin & Matthew have published a book entitled “By One Man”

By One Man is a response to the challenge of Evolutionary Creation, or any view, which proposes that God evolved humans from primaeval life forms as His method of creation and reviews the evidence from both Scripture and Christadelphian writers and concludes that Evolutionary Creation is incompatible with Bible teaching and the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith (BASF). 

By One Man furnishes easy access to the long-standing teaching of Christadelphians on these important subjects, and assures readers that our community’s beliefs are based on sound Scriptural evidence.

If you would like a hard copy of the book “By One Man” by Colin Byrnes and Matthew Jamieson, you can purchase it from the Christadelphian Office at www.TheChristadelphian.com or from Lulu.com.

You can also buy a softcopy, the ebook from the Christadelphian Magazine website.

Supplementary information is available at http://cbmresources.org/forums/index.php?/topic/1156-by-one-man/

www.wildernessconversations.com