{"id":780,"date":"2007-11-04T09:47:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-11\/04\/total-church-conference-summary\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:47:21","slug":"total-church-conference-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/total-church-conference-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Church Conference &#8211; Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I returned last week from the <a href=\"http:\/\/totalchurch.info\/\" title=\"Total Church Conference\">Total Church conference<\/a> in England.&nbsp; (I wanted to post earlier, but was having some technical difficulty).&nbsp; In attendance there were 50 church planters from around the world, many were hybrids, traditional churches looking to become more missional or house church movements.&nbsp; The central theme was <em>gospel &amp; community<\/em>.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/timchester.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Tim Chester\">Tim Chester<\/a> led excellent morning devotionals that were portraits of Jesus life.&nbsp; The first was dealing with Jesus came eating &amp; drinking, dealing with messy community life reaching to the margins.&nbsp; The second devotional was Jesus at the table, which sprang from the women washing his feet.&nbsp; The final devotional dealt with Jesus&#039; interaction with the men on the road to Emmaus.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Timmis led mid-day sessions that sparked conversation.&nbsp; Over the next few days, I&#039;ll post a few summaries on the sessions.&nbsp; Some highlights of the posts to come:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things that make Steve Timmis go &#039;Hmmmm&#8230;&#039;<\/strong> &#8211;&nbsp; Steve held a session where he brought up a few issues that churches have to think through and offered commentary on these.&nbsp; I&#039;ll post a few of the ideas which included people&#039;s fascination with new ways of doing church, preaching workshops, gender specific ministry, video venues &amp; big churches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership Development in the Local church<\/strong> &#8211; A discussion on developing leaders, church planting and the ongoing role of elders leadership in local churches.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharing Lives<\/strong> &#8211; More on how the Crowded House makes decisions with the community in mind.&nbsp; Something that will always rock our American sensibilities. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timchester.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Tim Chester\"><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned last week from the Total Church conference in England.&nbsp; (I wanted to post earlier, but was having some technical difficulty).&nbsp; In attendance there were 50 church planters from around the world, many were hybrids, traditional churches looking to become more missional or house church movements.&nbsp; The central theme was gospel &amp; community.&nbsp; Tim Chester led excellent morning devotionals that were portraits of Jesus life.&nbsp; The first was dealing with Jesus came eating &amp; drinking, dealing with messy community life reaching to the margins.&nbsp; The second devotional was Jesus at the table, which sprang from the women washing his feet.&nbsp; The final devotional dealt with Jesus&#039; interaction with the men on the road to Emmaus. 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