Healthy Reproducing Churches Conference
Four of us bloggers -- Mike Clawson, Dan Horwedal, Lance Finley, and myself -- are spending our weekend in Champaign, IL at Midwest Church Planting's Healthy Reproducing Churches Conference.
Lance Ford, director of Glocalnet, is our featured speaker and is doing a fantastic job connecting with the seventy in attendance.
Here are a few take-aways for me from Friday night:
--Jesus didn't tell you to build a church. He told you to make disciples.
--Effectiveness is not your gathering quotia. It is your sending quotia.
--If you can't say, "Imitate me as I imitate Christ" thaen you are not ready to plant a church.
--You can preach beyond your character but you can't disciple beyond your character.
Today he will flesh out the T-Life model.
posted by Brian at 6:58 AM
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Yeah, this was one of the best conferences I have attended (and I usually hate attending conferences). Thanks Brian, Gil, and whoever else made it happen.
Some of the take-aways for me, in addition to the one's Brian mentioned:
-- Are we makin' disciples or just tryin to add Jesus to the 'American Dream'?
-- Don't 'have a mission,' BE God's mission for the sake of the world.
-- Church should not be a subculture within a worldly culture, it's an outpost for the kingdom of God.
-- This morning I preached some on the 'Love Jesus and do what you want' thing. 'Cause, you know, if I love Jesus, what I want will be what he wants.
-- Also liked the salt-block illustration. We need to be spreading it, rather than waiting for people to come to us.
Good conference. Glad I went.
Do I understand correctly that your CGGC Regional CONFERENCE sponsored this event?
Bill,
Yes. Indirectly. We didn't call it a Midwest Region CGGC event but our church planting commission put it together and part of our budget went toward sponsoring it. There were about 70 people attending from eight churches. Five of the churches are directly affiliated with CGGC. The title, "Healthy Reproducing Churches" was taken from the core values of the CGGC.
Awesome!
I'm on Renewal here. And, I'd love to see us do something like what you've done.
Bill,
Great to see you're still alive. I have missed your wisdom.
Regarding the conference: someone asked me why I liked this one and not others. For me, just off the top of my head... (1) No "cutesy" stuff. It's not that I don't like drama or comedy, but... well, maybe I don't like it. Not at these things anyway.(2) VERY little business/administrative stuff. (3) I liked taht it was relaxed - there was no unwritten (or written) dress or conduct code. (4) Mostly the content and speaker were good, and the worship was great! (5) No expectations; no pretense. (6) I got a free pen and notebook that didn't tell me how I was supposed to feel or what I was supposed to do. (7) Mentos, and coffee & water throughout.
Probably other stuff too. I'm gettin preoccupied.
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