Northwest College and Seminary President, Barton Priebe:
“As your school, Northwest College and Seminary stands with the Fellowship Pacific board against the motion for all the reasons that have being are being presented and have been presented. Here are third three more reasons practical and theological uh that Northwest offers to consider on why you should vote against this motion.
First we should vote against this motion because it seeks to change the goalposts on a young generation training for ministry. As I mentioned in my earlier address it’s very encouraging to see so many young men and so many young women entering into our undergrad into immerse they invest their time their money their dreams their their ideas for future go uh jobs uh under the wider goalposts of the 2005 policy. This is what Northwest has worked with for 20 years and this is where our churches have been seeking to train up leaders for the last 20 years yet this motion seeks to narrow those goalposts this quite frankly has been extremely demoralizing to many and should it pass would likely cause us to lose some of our best new young leaders.”
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“We want to be the gospel to be the drum that is beat everywhere. We want to make sure that we keep that which is of first importance first
importance and we do not allow secondary matters to be hills that we’re fighting on, or we’re dying on, or we’re taking up all of our impact conventions to deal with. We want to be on mission, majoring on the majors and keeping the unity of the spirit this is why we allow freedom for our churches to decide their own beliefs on many secondary matters such as church governance models issues like dispensationalism, end times views, and of course the question of spiritual gifts and whether the so-called miraculous gifts are for today or whether they have in fact ceased. So we do not want to make these things a test of fellowship. Secondary matters should remain secondary.”
Access the full transcript: https://keepfebcomplementarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Transcript-of-2025-FEB-PAC-IMPACT-2.pdf
View the proceedings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKvLw7Wa_A
