Friday, February 06, 2009

Church

Dan Kimball (Vintage Faith) talks about being at "Recalibrating Church"

I am on the plane flying home from being at a really refreshing and wonderful 2 days up at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. It was an event called "Recalibrating Church" that Shapevine and George Fox Seminary put on. The event was 4 hours long and it was done in the format with each presenter giving a 15-20 minute message. Then the panel would interact and ask questions and interact as well as those in attendance asking questions. As a presenter you sat on the stage for 4 hours while each person spoke and then interacted.

You can read recaps of the event here by Rick Meigs and another here by Janet Frazer.

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These are the thoughts of Tyler (manofdepravity.com) on what he heard:

Yesterday I had the unique chance to learn from Dan Kimball, Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, Alan Hirsch, and Mary Kate Morse. It was a day to look at all things about the church universal and the local church in order to question: why and how. Here were some the highlight thoughts and quotes from the day for me (I’ll bold my favorites of the favorites):

  • “So much of church is creating a sub-cultural bubble but not engaging with culture.” Dan Kimball
  • “Everything has to be mission. There is a heaven and there is a hell.” Dan Kimball
  • “Organic church life is not native to this planet. It began before time in the Godhead.” Frank Viola
  • The winning of souls is not the end it is the beginning.
  • “Leadership is not just something that someone brings into a room and accomplishes.” Mary Kate Morse
  • “Most churches teach that the church is a living organism, but in my experience it is pious rhetoric.” Frank Viola
  • “We need to do ministry to the body and be missional to the world.” Len Sweet
  • “There are burning bushes everywhere.” Len Sweet
  • “If the cutting edge is not Jesus Christ, you are chasing trees that have no squirrels.” Frank Viola
  • “God does not exist in order for people to be saved.” Frank Viola
  • “God is Christ-like.” Alan Hirsch

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