Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals Elect New President
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals reorganized its Council and selected a new president to better fill its goal of becoming “the collaborative nexus of a true pan-Reformed alliance.”
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a coalition of evangelical Christian leaders committed to promoting a modern reformation of the church, reorganized its Council and selected a new president to better fill its goal of becoming “the collaborative nexus of a true pan-Reformed alliance.”
The Alliance’s twofold mission is to proclaim and defend the theological teachings of the Protestant Reformation - the final authority of the Bible, salvation by grace alone, through Christ alone, received by faith alone – and to help foster a twenty-first century reformation of the Church.
According to a statement released by the Alliance’s board, the greatest dream of the organization is to see the church “recover clarity and conviction about the great evangelical truths of the gospel, and then live and proclaim these truths powerfully in our contemporary context.”
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With the new vision, the Council also elected a new President and Chairman: Dr. Ligon Duncan. Duncan, senior minister of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi and adjunct professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, is the moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
According to the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)’s ByFaith magazine, the Alliance has recently addressed several critical theological issues pertaining to the reformed tradition, namely open theism, Paul and justification, and the redefinition of marriage and the family.
The Alliance, which currently sponsors three national radio programs, began some 50 years ago under the titled “Evangelical Ministries.”
By 1994, Evangelical Ministries began a new era when the late Dr. James Boice invited Christian leaders to meet in Philadelphia, according to ByFaith. Concerned that North American Christianity had yielded to the spirit of the age, especially in terms of consumerism, pragmatism, politicization, and disregard for theological clarity, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals was formed to bring a biblical response to these trends within the wider Christian community.
