These are my notes from a talk I delivered this past Monday night at our quarterly Leadership Community gathering at Eastbrook Church. We have spent a good deal of energy around the idea of growing in discipleship at Eastbrook, and I wanted to explore how that connects with one of our other vision objectives related …
What the Church and Pastors Need to Learn from Ferguson
This blog post is co-authored by Chris Brooks and Matt Erickson. As I watched things unfold in Ferguson recently, I felt a surging of different thoughts and feelings within me. There was a mixture of sadness and fear, anger and helplessness, and my mind raced to come to terms with what this means not only …
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Notes on Diversity and Multi-Ethnicity in Scripture
Last week, some of our staff at Eastbrook Church spent time reflecting on diversity, multi-ethnicity, and the international perspective within God's plans for His people within the Scripture. We read some portions of the Bible aloud, then reflected together on what we were seeing there. What follows are the unedited notes from that time together.Isaiah …
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Multi-Ethnic Church Pre-Conference Session
I blogged through the pre-conference sessions on the multi-ethnic church for Exponential 2013 that I attended over the past few days. You can access all the sessions here: - Session 1: Mark DeYmaz on theology of multi-ethnic ministry - Session 2: Pastor Wilfredo 'Choco' de Jesus on his church in Chicago - Session 3: Rich …
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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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