A really great session this morning at 8 AM with Shawn Lovejoy, Lead Pastor of Mountain Lake Church in Cumming, Georgia, entitled "Healthy Leader...Healthy Church." You can read his blog here.Shawn built his message around the story of David and Goliath, with David's temptation to use Saul's armor in approaching Goliath. You can find it …
Dispatches from Exponential 08, day 2.2
Here are some highlights from two sessions this afternoon.Andy Stanley, Pastor at North Point Community Church, brought the following message "Making Vision Stick." It's a standard Stanley message that has now been made into a book by the same name. He defined vision as "a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion …
Dispatches from Exponential 08, day 2.1
I have so many thoughts from Exponential 08 today that I need to break them up into two separate entries.This one is all taken from a pre-conference seminar continued from yesterday entitled "Attractional and Incarnational Church Planting." Today involved conversations with the guys from yesterday (Alan Hirsch, Greg Hawkins, Neil Cole, Darrin Patrick) plus Joseph …
Dispatches from Exponential 08, day 1
I'm in Orlando, FL, for Exponential 08, the National New Churches Conference, with Jason Webb and some others from the greater Milwaukee area.Today, we sat through (endured?) a panel entitled "Attractional AND Incarnational Church Planting" in the pre-conference tracks. It was a panel discussion with Alan Hirsch (author of The Forgotten Ways and, with Michael …
Evangelical Politics
After writing about some of the more interesting tendencies within the evangelical church today, I happened to hear a fascinating dialogue on the radio on Sunday morning.Speaking of Faith, a public radio religion show, had an interesting conversation between three figures with disparate viewpoints about evangelical engagement in the public square:Chuck Colson: former Nixon aide …
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