Title: The Realities of a “post” world Tim set up the rest of the lectures here by talking about how we orient ourselves and suggest three points of triangulation: context/culture gospel/theology structure/system He then talked about context/culture by illustrating how our culture is postmodern, post-enlightenment and post-Christiandome. I didn’t take a lot of notes, because [...]
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Session Title: Entering Narrative – Embracing the Power of Story My biggest takeaway: Our modern understanding of what it means to be a pastor domesticates the imagination — it instead values control and safety and “doing ministry” instead of wild pursuit of God in one’s context that allows for unique expressions of what it means [...]
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Our last session for this conference is with Brian McLaren…he just put up a slide that I thought I’d share: our contemporary gospel is primarily: information on how to go to heaven after you die with a large footnote about increasing your personal happiness and success through God with a small footnote about character development [...]
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