Questions after Brian McLaren’s Saturday speech

Q How do you deal with power without appealing to power??
A The Cross is symbol of Roman domnination — and Jesus transformed it
The Symbol of Cross means peace thru suffering, not through torture and dominationn
Elaboration: Jesus was crucified by the Romans which symbolized their power to torture and dominate anyone who opposed their authority.
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Brian McLaren’s Opening Remarks, Friday Morning

Brian spoke for a few moments to open up the conference and I was fiddling with my computer to get ready to take notes, but I remember one really valuable thing: he said “imagine that all the people have their names written down on a sheet, and the column on the left is the good [...]

Barna first Q&A

Q from former youth pastor — What about the scriptures that say that the body has pastors, elders, leaders, etc. How do we reconcile those with the Revolution which seems to be abandoing those kinds of forms?
[Kindig: my notes are sketchy here someone, either George or the questioner, talks about how a Wolfgang Simpson book, [...]