Soularize â?? a learning party â?? Oct. 25-27, 2007
Beyond Our Borders
Two Years in the Planning â?? Less Than 90 Days to Register
Host Spencer Burke has popped the creative cork off Soularize the original / catalytic emerging church gathering
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Read MoreI received a copy of Paul Metzger’s, Consuming Jesus, and Brian McLaren’s newest, Everything Must Change. I began reading them both. I thought of an interesting connection. If we take Jesus in rather than make of Jesus a consumer culture “everything must change.”
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Read MoreI met Jay on the plane yesterday afternoon. He pastors a church in what he referred to as a “fishing village” near New Orleans – Weswego. Our conversation ranged widely as any can when two pastors get together. The church Jay pastors received an invitation to participate in a … Continue reading
Read MoreNew faces and new places characterized my first trip to Minneapolis a few years ago. I met Joe Myers while attending Soularize. One evening several groups went to dinner. Another couple of people at the table with us – Mark Riddle and Denise VanEck. The ethnic food did not … Continue reading
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Shaping worship or being shaped by worship …
Imaginative work means both shaping and being shaped. Creating a bulldozer with Play-Doh requires the imagination to shape the pliable material. Once the piece is complete it shapes the the one who created the work. Thinking about the heavy piece of equipment the image replicates also reminds us of … Continue reading
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