(All of my posts from Renov8 can be found here)
Glenn Smith’s site is http://www.direction.ca/
First priority is always to discern where God is at work, then establish ways for people to follow Jesus in a way that makes sense to them
Contextualization means weaving the good news together with the context of the community.
The Gospel is the only message worth incarnating in the community
He then proceeded to talk about “Key Indicators of a Transformed City” (click on the image to see a larger version):
The heart of transformation the paradigm for missional engagement in cities
1. The heart is the church and reconciliation
2. Urban Community
At this point I felt overwhelmed with statistics, which kind of goes against the grain of the conf… Analyzing success by what can be quantified.
We’ll call this model “Transformation by Computation” or maybe “Paralysis by Analysis”. I didn’t get much out of this one.
