AGTS O-RD Conference - Session 1 - The Missional Journey

0 comments | Oct 27, 10:05 AM | best-of-earl | by Earl Creps

Today (Oct 27) I am involved in an Off-Road Disciplines conference here at AGTS. We have around 150 in attendance and are meeting in the William Seymour Chapel.

My first session was called, “The Missional Journey,” and made the case that the transition to a missional perspective is not an organizational fix, or a programattic solution, but a personal transaction between a leader, the Holy Spirit, and the ministry.

After my brief talk, we opened the floor for Q &A facilitated by Randy Walls. Here is my summary of the questions that seemed important to those attending, and a few words describing our dialogue:

1. What are the processes for “seeing out the window”? Pain!

2. What kind of response do you get form the discussion of the decline of the US church? Mixed. Like the stages of grief recovery

3. Barna talks about a “revolution” in worship forms. We will know in five if he is right.

4. Can we measure statistically. Beware the trap of numerical measurement.

5. What about the feminization of church argument? Being more manly is not the pathf forward.

6. Information revolution has empowered leaders at the margin; how does this empower us? The sense that I can follow the Spirit without depending on “the man.”

7. What’s happening in preaching? Many camps, but as long as you are true to the text, yourself, and the audience, you’re good.

8. Relevance – lots of leaders seem bound by the traditional. How do you address modern issues from the pulpit?