Vaughan Roberts is the Rector of St Ebbe's Church

St Ebbe's, Oxford

St Ebbe's is a Church of England parish church in central Oxford which is in the conservative evangelical tradition. It has members from many nations, many of whom are students at Oxford University...

, Oxford

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, United Kingdom

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., an evangelical

Evangelicalism

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 Anglican church, subscribing to a traditional eleven point evangelical doctrine. In 2009, he became president of the Proclamation Trust

Proclamation Trust

The Proclamation Trust is a British evangelical Christian association founded in 1986 by Dick Lucas, led by Vaughan Roberts, based in Willcox House, London that is dedicated to training preachers in expository preaching...

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Life

Vaughan Roberts was an undergraduate at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, where he was President of the Christian Union. He moved to Oxford to serve as curate under David Fletcher at St. Ebbe's church. One of his responsibilities was to look after the student work. When David Fletcher retired, Roberts became Rector of St. Ebbe's.

He has written a number of Christian

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books including Turning Points, Distinctives, True Worship, God's Big Picture, and Life's Big Questions.

True Worship explores the differences between Old Testament religion and worship under the new covenant. It examines what is sung in contemporary evangelical church services and why, and offers advice on how to choose worship music.

Works

• Turning Points (1999: Authentic) ISBN 9781850783367
• True Worship (2002: Authentic) ISBN 9781850784456
• God's Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible (2002: Inter-Varsity Press) ISBN 9780830853649
• Life's Big Questions: Six Major Themes Traced Through the Bible (2004: Inter-Varsity Press) ISBN 9780830853670
• God's Big Design: Life as He Intends It To Be (2005: Inter-Varsity Press) ISBN 9780830833436
• Distinctives (2006: Authentic) ISBN 9781850783312
• Battles Christians Face (2007: Authentic) ISBN 9781850787280
• Christmas in Three Words (2007: Inter-Varsity Press) ISBN 9781905564811
• Missing the Point? Finding Our Place in the Turning Points of History (2007: Authentic) ISBN 9781850787631
• True Spirituality: The Challenge of 1 Corinthians for the Twenty-First-Century Church (2011: IVP) ISBN 9781844745180

Co-authored

• Workers for the Harvest Field, with Tim Thornborough (2006: The Good Book Company) ISBN 9781905564309