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BlogHere are the thoughts and news of the people in our community. Leave a comment as you wish. If you want to join the blogging ask Mark.
Monday, February 27, 2006Hey, I am back!!Happy Monday everyone. This weekend I have thoroughly enjoyed our Salt and Light European Leaders conference. There were about 650 people there enjoying a great selection of speakers and some great interaction! I got to chat with loads of old and new friends about loads of interesting things. In particular we had a real laff taxi-ing Ceri, Alison and Sharize to and from the hotel - some great refelctions ont he speakers, and Sharize's latest embarressing moments! I really enjoyed some proper interaction with a few guys who are right on the verge of planting new churches. It made me think I need ot resurrect the Salt and Light Church Planters Forum. There is loads ot learn from each other. It is clear there is nothing like a simple "how to" for church planting when one lot are moving to a village to plant a church, and another dreaming of a House church network in London, and yet another [Kenyan] dreaming of a multi-cultural church in a multi-cultural city, starting with a multi-cultural team! It is just so exciting when people start stretching the envelope and taking risks for the Kingdom of God. Highlights of the conference speakers-wise were: Martin Goldsmith - an elder statesman of the kingdom of God, with loads of experience, loads of knowledge and the dryest sense of humour!! He spoke on "Christ or Krishna: the uniqueness of Christ". A fascinating talk, with the added spice of the fact that he is a Jew. Nicky S. - ex-missionary from East Africa, with one of those talks that you wish you had had an excuse to miss, cos it way too challenging!! She had a great sub-point about 'being a foreigner in your own country' out of her own experience of being a foreigner in anonther country. and of course... Bishop Tom Wright - 2 fantastic talks: the first on the Kingdom of God, where he laid out Jesus kingdom announcement in the enormous big pisture of the Biblical Story; and the second on the cross as the power of God, taling about how we must not use the means of the powers of this world to acheive Kingdom of God ends, but rather be modelled on the cross. I had a little extra bonus of a lunch with Bishop Tom [along with 20 others!] and opportunity to ask some pertinent questions. Believe me that man has a brain the size of a planet!! His latest book Simply Christian some real life stressful circumstances after which just had to get away with his wife so he wrote 14 hours day for 3 days and taa-daa book! Those four talks I have the CD's of. I was gonna be a bit naughty and put them up here for peple to download. Trouble was when i ripped them the mp3's were 45meg each! Anyone know how I can reduce that? *** All talks are now uploaded anyway on the Salt and light website *** Posted by: Mark | 1:14 pm |
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