I was asked to attend a workshop led by Pastor Scotty Smith, the first of a two-part series entitled “Restoring Broken Things.” Pastor Smith began by showing a four-part picture which represented the over-arching story of Scripture: Creation, Fall, Love (the Cross), Life (the final resur[...]
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January 29th, 2008 - 12:02 pm § in Networks
Drew Goodmanson – Workshop – GCA Conference
I was asked to live-blog a seminar called The Internet & The Sovereignty of God by Drew Goodmanson. I found the seminar fascinating. Goodmanson is a pastor of Kaleo Church but he is also very involved in the Internet industry. He opened by noting that this is an issue of contextualization. An in[...]
January 29th, 2008 - 11:58 am § in Networks
Global Church Advancement (GCA) Conference – Day 2
This morning I’ve been assigned to live-blog two Advanced-Track workshops. I should explain that there are three tracks of sessions represented here at the Global Church Advancement Church Planting Workshop. Foundations Track – Establishing & strengthening vision, calling, mission, p[...]
January 29th, 2008 - 11:44 am § in Uncategorized
Martin Ban – Gospel & Cultural Engagement – GCA
Ban ministers in Santa Fe, NM, a beautiful and difficult place to live. The city is 40% Caucasian. There is a large lower (working poor) and upper class (movie stars) presence, but not much of a middle class. Ban began by noting that as we try to do neighborhood evangelism and church planting,[...]
GCA Conference – I
I arrived in Orlando, FL a few hours ago to live-blog the Global Church Advancement Conference. Since there are a number of parallel sessions throughout the week, the conference organizers have asked me to post on specific sessions. Tomorrow I’ll be posting on the opening session by Steve[...]