Workshops: With over 140 workshops, it was a tad difficult to make a choice from the wide variety of tracks, themes, and presenters… in an attempt to narrow down the options I decide to stick with one featured presenter, Alan Hirsch… a decision that proved quite fruitful. Here is an overview of the workshops I attended.
- Workshop Session 3 – Alan Hirsch and Lance Ford
- Title: Shema Spirituality- According to Jesus, the Shema is the central principle of Christian spirituality. This workshop will explore what it means to live in the world where Jesus is King.
- Tweetables: ".... mission is offering your whole world back to God"; ".... anything toward God is good... anything away from God can be evil"; ".... obedience is the worship you offer..." ; "...the only way to overcome something that is enslaving you is to develop a passion for something greater"; ".... you want to see biblical holiness... look at Jesus... he's a party animal... look at him in cana"; ".... witness can be a scratch and sniff for the Kingdom of God..." ; ".... when the nuclear family becomes autonomous it can be idolotrous.... let the family be missional"; ".... Calvin says our hearts are idol factories..." – All from Alan Hirsch
- Workshop Session 4 – Alan Hirsch and Neil Col
- Title: Intro to Missional Communities- What is a missional community? Cole & Hirsch will give an overview of what church is, what makes for a healthy missional community and what God seems to be doing today in His Kingdom
- Tweetables: "... Christology shapes Missiology.... Missiology shapes Ecclesiology.... which manifests Missional Ecclesiology "; "... we are not to co-opt Jesus, we are to be agents of the Kingdom"; "... you only need 16% of a population to transform the entire population - find that 16% in ur midst" – Alan Hirsch ~ After reviewing a seminary style def. of church "if we can define church w/o Jesus then we can do church w/o him" - Neal Cole; moving forward "... we need to eliminate the distinctions of sacred/secular and clergy/laity" - Neal Cole
- After Hours – Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson
- Title: Movements: How do I start a missional church movement?- Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson, authors of On the Verge: A Journey into The Apostolic Future will be discussing how the church is on the verge of massive, category-shifting, change. Our times require a different kind of church, an apostolic, reproducing movement where every person is living a mission-sent life. Dave and Alan will lead us through a discussion on what it means for us to be a sent people – a church who follows a missional God.
- Workshop Session 5 - Alan Hirsch and Kim Hammond
- Title: Leadership & Systems for Missional Movements- Most people want a short cut or the packaged product. Kim and Alan will teach the unique characteristics and DNA of apostolic leadership and the organic systems needed to birth and nurture an actual real missional movement, (not just some blog or books theory on it) They will discuss the APEST (EPh 4) and the kind of team needed for an actual movement.
- Tweetables: ".... Ephesians 4 - vv. 1-6 unity, vv. 7-11 APEST... Jesus was an uber prophet, vv.12-16 maturity "; "...Ephesians 4 is not a leadership text... it's a ministry text that gives us everything we need "; - Alan Hirsch
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