I attended Emerging 1 & 2 and Evangelism 1 & 2 today. Emerging Session 2 was led by Steve Treichler from Hope Community. Some quotes:
"We are in the middle of the greatest worldview shift in 200 years and evangelicals have largely sheltered themselves from this transition." (Meaning: we no longer understand our culture)
"The gospel is a chocolate covered waffle cone. In 11 years of our church I have never told our people, "'you should invite your friends to church. We do very little 'should'." (Meaning: If our people don't see the gospel as something to prize and share, our people don't get it.)
Here are a couple quotes from Martin Ban who is currently the Senior Pastor of Christ Church Santa Fe. These are from his session, Making Room: A Trinitarian Reflection on Evangelism and Cultural Engagement with the Gospel. This was an excellent session which impacted me particularly as it relates to how God has allowed us to be IN Christ. I'll have to digest this for a bit, but here are two quotes that struck me (but don't really indicate the thrust of the message).
"The gospel is not efficient." (As it relates to loving others and being missional.
If our people learn a Systematic Theology of Grace it results in a reduction of risk (taken by people). We need to teach our people a Kingdom view of Grace with enables them to take greater risks.
Dan said one of his mentors was Dick Kaufmann (he also mentioned Frame, Keller, Schaeffer, Newbigin and others) so I liked him from the get-go. Plus, he presented his session with a triperspectival understanding of evangelism. Eg., He discussed things like the Logos, Ethos and Pathos in evangelism. He's going to send out his presentation PowerPoint so I will refresh myself on a couple thoughts and post on these.
