Posts Tagged ‘verge’

March 4, 2010 2

Is the ‘American Dream’ a Christian one?

By in Culture

In reading a lot of the conversation on Twitter after the Verge conference I came across a post by Jeff Collier on his site zetify.com.  In that post was this paragraph: My only criticism of the conference was some of the speakers, especially the founder of the movement Alan Hirsch, was a bit anti-American.  There [...]

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February 10, 2010 0

The repentance of a consumerist churchgoer

By in Missional Living

The conversation around Verge is still continuing this week, and I keep processing how it affected me, and what I need to do. Which leads me to this post.  In the very first pre-conference breakout session, my Executive Pastor kicked things off with the topic of repentance.  The session was about the Austin Stone’s For [...]

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February 6, 2010 0

First thoughts on the Verge Conference

By in Missional Living

Intentionally I did not blog the conference as we went along as I wanted to focus on absorbing the teaching and not transcribing it.  I get why others do this, and I am thankful they do, but for me I needed to process all of the information – as there was a ton of it. [...]

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February 6, 2010 0

Post Verge reading list

By in Missional Living

My reading list – which doesn’t ever need help flourishing – grew quite a bit after attending Verge this weekend.  So, here is what I will be working on now… The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community Forgotten Ways Handbook, The: A Practical Guide for Developing [...]

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