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This week:

The Turning to the Scriptures - Part 2

The four turnings are these:

1. A turning to Jesus Christ as Lord
2. A turning to some form of Christ following community
3. A turning to the Scriptures - Part 1
4. A turning back to the world on mission

We been talking about the 4 Turnings of the human heart that lead to the kinds of people Jesus needs in the 21st century. The third of the turnings is the essential turn to the scriptures. (Remember, these turnings can happen in any order).

Contexts and Trajectories for Faith

In my last post in this series, I wrote that the scriptures give us both context and trajectories for faith. I touched on how the scriptures provide historical context for faith. Today I want to touch on how the scriptures give us trajectories for our faith.

The canon, as I mentioned in the last post, is not revelation. Neither the canon nor the Bible are authoritative in and of themselves. But the collection of documents that have been passed on to us as the Bible do provide trajectories for a more human future.

When I speak of trajectories for the future I don’t mean a “Left Behind” kind of map to what will happen in the future. I mean a description of the human world we are called to create. Continue reading ‘The Kinds of People the 21st Century Needs (4)’

The International Mentoring Network presented
HUMANA 2.08 on Feb 6-7, 2008 in Orlando, Fl.

The DVDs are now available for purchase.

What’s on the DVDs?

All other IMN Resources are available here.

Alex McManus is the founder of the International Mentoring Network and the Creator of Voxtropolis — a grass roots movement of music, art, film, culture and conversation — with expressions in California, Florida and the UK, and a mirror cyber-expression on voxtropolis.com. He is the author of Making the World Human Again: Jesus’ Quest to Save the Future from Religion to be released October of 2008 by Zondervan Press.

His suggested topic of conversations include…

The 5 Digit Combination — How to think about the future
The Three Great Reversals of the Future Church — Money, Clergy and Laity, Space and Time
Church Planting in 12 minutes — the church plant won’t take 12 minutes but this talk will
Fiesta For God — Being Normal as a Way of connecting to non Christ following Humans
Posting Threads — A new language for church planting

Hear Alex McManus and others at HUMANA 2.08/ Orlando, Fl/ Feb 6-7. REGISTER by Friday, Jan 18 (today) and you’ll enjoy a discounted tuition.

Dean Sharp (Southern California), Sam Radford (UK) and Eric Sweiven (Northern California) are the practitioners that will fill out the Ministry Models Quadrant. All three are currently involved in the grass roots music, film, culture and conversation movement called VOXTROPOLIS. They will bring their experiences and have offered these topics of conversation.

Stumbling Forward - the art of figuring it out as you go along and accidental success
Beyond Labels - creating spaces for humanity to connect
We like them; They like us - relationships as a foundation for everything
Blurred Lines - everything and nothing; everywhere and nowhere
Cell Theory — Understanding the Voxtropolis Underground at the molecular level

There’s still time. Register before Friday, January 18 and enjoy a discounted tuition. See you at HUMANA 2.08/ Orlando, Fl/ Feb 6-7, 2008.

I’ve asked Thorsten Moritz (vita below) to consider the following topics of conversation at HUMANA 2.08. These are based
on conversations with Thorsten over the last couple of years.

# Why single leadership in a church is unbiblical (based on Thorsten’s challenge that there are no single leaders in the scriptures) (and maybe even unhealthy).
# Single and Plural Leadership from a biblical perspective
# Why what we call church is not church (based on our conversation last Feb about the mistake of calling our Sunday morning gatherings a church)
# What is a church and what is her mission?
# Why mega churches fail the definition of what it means to be a church

THORSTEN MORITZ. Over the past 11 years, Thorsten Moritz has taught at the University of Gloucestershire, England; Leipzig University and the Freie Theologische Akademie, both in Germany; as well as in five Romanian cities. He authored a monograph about hermeneutics in Ephesians, A Profound Mystery, and articles on the gospels, Ephesians, hermeneutics, and consumerism. He is currently writing the Mark commentary for the Two Horizons commentary series as well as another monograph on New Testament ecclesiology. His professional associations include the Tyndale Fellowship (Cambridge, England), the Arbeitskreis fur evangelikale Theologie (Tubingen, Germany), and the Society of Biblical Literature. Thorsten and his family currently live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

There’s still time to Register for HUMANA 2.08/ Orlando, Fl/ Feb 6-7.

Brian Russel is an Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary.
He is also a key team member of the VOXTROPOLIS movement of grassroots culture and art in Orlando.
Brian’s area of specialization is the Old Testament with an emphasis on Exodus.

His topics of suggested conversation for HUMANA 2.08 are below.

• Learning to Speak Human: Connecting with the Not Yet Christian
• The Imago Dei and Mission
• OT Insights into NT Mission
• Missional Preaching: Christian Speech in a Pagan World
• Community: Where Mission and Holiness Intersect
• Created for So Much More: Jesus and a New Humanity

Because of the Open Source Nature of the IMN leadership training,
the participants are currently engaged as the Design Team creating the
program for the experience.

There’s still time for you to help create the program. Register before January 18 and you’ll enjoy a discounted tuition too. At HUMANA 2.08 you’ll interact wit Brian Russell, Gerardo Marti, Alex McManus and others. Hope to see all of you there.

Gerardo Marti is a sociologist teaching at Davdison College in Davidson, NC.
He is the author of A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church as well as the soon to be released Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church.

He’s offered these ideas for his conversations at HUMANA 2.08/ Orlando, Fl/ Feb 6-7

* Why we need a mission, not a bible study
* Multiplying rather than hoarding catalytic leadership
* Are we engaging culture, or just engaging blockbuster movies and primetime television?
* Do we use Hollywood or is Hollywood using us?
* Why most churched and unchurched people hate evangelicals
* Holiness, prosperity, and religion in the age of “brand you”
* What makes Mosaic Work?
* What is a church?

Hear Gerardo Marti, Alex McManus and others at HUMANA 2.08/ Orlando, Fl/ Feb 6-7. If you register before Jan 18 you’ll enjoy a discount off of the “at-the-door” tuition.

The 4 Turnings…

In 1991 or so, George Hunter mentioned, during a presentation in East Los Angeles, the 4 turnings –repentances — of the human heart that help create the kinds of people the Kingdom needs.

This week:

The Turning to the Scriptures

Continue reading ‘The Kinds of People the 21st Century Needs (3)’