How hot it is it?
So hot that soda cans explode while sitting on the counter.
This must be why I got a mop for cleaning … it got its second work out tonight.
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So I just finished working the Allelon conference put on by the Depree center. What that basically means is that I go to go to a nifty pastor’s conference for free. It was rather interesting listening to the chaos that was going on in the background. Each person who was at the conference had brought his or her own case study about a frustrating ministry experience. Then in groups they discussed them looking at options and then how to proceed. Now I came in during the middle of the conference so the basic teaching had already been done, but I was able to keep up enough to pull out some very interesting things.
The theme of the second day seemed to be frustration. I think what most of the pastors wanted was answers to how to now proceed, the problem came about when the panel of speakers basically said ‘there are no answers.’ It was interesting watching a series of questions centered around wanting an answer that will fix the problem when the speakers were only giving a method of moving the church from internal to mission/community minded.
By the end of the third/last day many of the people were comfortable dwelling in the tension of not having the answers to the question, but rather a mindset that there is a need to listen to the church congregation, not only by the pastors but by other members of the church leadership.
As I was sitting down with one of the pastors during dinner on the final day we had a discussion on the differences between generations and dealing with listening to every person. The whole conference has been building on a feeling that the church is about to make a change; how, what, and when it will happen is still an interesting question.
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