(look under the headlines portion of their grandiose web page)
The Church and Change group is claiming the conference was a huge success. I wonder how they are measuring their success?
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update -- (Saturday evening)
After doing a bit of research on this issue here is how I see what has happened:
Shortly after the convention, President Schroeder quoted a convention resolution in his letter to pastors and teachers. The convention resolution quoted in the letter called for expanded efforts in world and home missions using both traditional and innovative means. The convention resolution was referring to recent new programs such as daughter missions and out reach programs to ethnic minorities. This resolution was not a blanket endorsement of all “innovative” approaches. The Church and Change leadership must have reached the conclusion that because of the letter to all called workers President Schroeder is “excited” about the Church and Change efforts. I believe that this inaccurate statement on the Church and Change site must be and will be removed.
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update -- Sunday 5:30pm CDT
The innacurate claim that President Schroeder is excited is now gone from the Church and Change website.
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"I am interested in an honest review of the keynote speaker and any workshops if someone was in attendance."
I'd like to see this too. The C&C website has an audio clip of the closing service--I wonder if anyone made audio recordings of the workshops. I'm especially interested in learning more about Pr. Parlow's workshop. The C&C materials say:
"Explore tansferable principles that will help you build a church for outsiders to come to and hear truth that makes a difference now and for eternity. Now is the time to shed ethnic rationalizations, personal preferences, and doomsday attitutdes that are offered as excuses for outreach failures."
I'd like to know what he means by "transferable principles." I've read some his sermons, and I have to say, statements like "The Christian life is a journey closer and closer to the Son. At some point it moves from I’m learning to I’m asking to I’m doing" make me wonder where these so-called "principles" are being transfered from.
The discription of the conference workshops can be found here:
http://www.churchandchange.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=8980&sec_id=2384
The sermon in refer to can be found here:
http://stmarkpartners.org/images/sermons/Journey_-_white_belt%20_Sept.%209_.pdf
LM