Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

***This will be the last of the liveblog posts. I will probably follow up with some further thoughts later next week. Thanks for reading*** (All of my posts from Renov8 can be found here)
The time has come to wrap up the conference, and who better to do that than the guy who got us started: [...]

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The session started out with Howard explaining the following. I say “explaining” but really he proceeded under the assumption that we were all familiar with this, and all that was needed was a review… so I’m not entirely sure about the source of the ideas:

Old Story
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In 1998 Bow Valley Christian church felt led to plant a church, planted a church and 5 years later again felt led to plant another church. Keith felt called and wrote a [...]

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The impact of Wagdi’s talk has been immense.. here are a few more details about his story, as told in the session yesterday:
- Memorized entire Koran at 6-yrs-old. All by memorization, didn’t know how to read/write
- He was told: Burn Christians before they burn you.
- At [...]

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At Renov8 this week we’ve talked a number of times about the categories of “dechurched” and “unchurched”. Clarifying these terms will assist us in missional church planting.
Here are basic definitions to start with:
Unchurched / Neverchurched
People who have never been affiliated with a church body and lack [...]

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We just heard a devastating talk by Pastor Wagdi Iskander about his conversion from Islam to Christianity. You can read his story here.
Being a convert, he was able to say things that, were any of us to say them, might bring accusations of intolerance or [...]

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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 [...]

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Stuart Murray & Julie Kilpin again. This session actually redeemed a lot of yesterday’s session.
***I missed a bit of this session since I was talking to a new friend, who is a very engaging fellow-writer***
When I arrive, Julie is being critical of people who can’t handle [...]

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After the day’s events ended I spent a lot of time talking to a number of people about yesterday’s session by Stuart Murray & Julie Kilpin.
In this short piece (posted this morning at The Resurgence), Jonathan Dodson articulates with a bit more clarity (and brevity) what [...]

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Urban Expression
The questions to be answered: What is God doing in my nhood and how can I discern that? What does the missio dei look like in a particular place? How do you know if something is an act of God [...]