Jim Putman of Real Life Church Ministries in Idaho kicked off the first main session of the Exponential 2013 conference this afternoon. I will be blogging throughout the conference. Here are my notes from Jim's message: God uses broken people so that He can get the glory for it. Matthew 16:18 - "who do you …
Mark DeYmaz on Multi-Ethnic Church, part 2
Mark DeYmaz led another session of the pre-conference here at Exponential 2013. This was a bit more practical than his first session which was more on theological foundations for multi-ethnic church. You can read my notes below [You can read notes from Mark's previous session here.]: 20% diversity is a line from sociologists Emerson and …
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Byron Davis on Multi-Ethnic Church
Byron Davis of Epic Life Project led us through the fourth session of the pre-conference on multi-ethnic church at Exponential 2013. It was a very engaging discussion of the generations, the changing shape of America, and the need for pastors to view themselves as community leaders, not just preaching leaders. My notes are here: How …
Rich Wilkerson, Sr, on Multi-Ethnic Church
The third session from the multi-ethnic church pre-conference session was led by Rich Wilkerson, Sr., of Trinity Church in Miami. Rich brought a lot of passion and stories into this session so it was hard to take in-depth notes on it. But here are the note from that session: Don't make it hard for people …
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Pastor Wilfredo ‘Choco’ de Jesus on Multi-Ethnic Church
The second speaker in our pre-conference session was Pastor Wilfredo 'Choco' de Jesus of New Life Covenant Church in Chicago. He spoke with him via Skype because he was selected as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people this year. Here are my brief notes from that conversation: The language of heaven is love, …
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