Tyndale House and Fellowship

First week in July I was at the Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group, two days studying Deuteronomy with 30-40 other evangelical scholars.

This was my first time at Tyndale and first time in Cambridge - I really enjoyed both.

I bought Tom Noble's book on the history of Tyndale Research for the Academy and the Church Tyndale House and Fellowship The First Sixty Years. I enjoyed this book and it is good to commend a book by a friend of St Ninians Stranraer.

The principle that led to establishing Tyndale House and Fellowship was good and remains sound today - there is a need for evangelicals to engage in rigourous biblical studies. It is good that those associated with Tyndale House over the years: e.g. FF Bruce, Howard Marshall, Jim Packer and David Wright (to name just a few) have all demonstrated in first rate scholarly work that it is possible to combine a submission to Scripture as God's word with an academic engagement with biblical studies, and other disciplines.
It is too easy for evangelials to retreat into church history or systematic theology and abandon academic study of the bible, but this must not be allowed to happen.

The work of Tyndale House, the Tyndale Fellowship is of great value to the church and should be supported by all who love the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who made himself known in his word.