Two Flawed Prophets

The Bible is full of material which challenges simplistic interpretations and this is one of them. It is a tale of two prophets: “the prophet from Judah” delivers a true prophecy that was fulfilled with accuracy more than three centuries later. The “old prophet from Bethel” transmits a lie that trips up the prophet of [...]

Brian McLaren – Final talk on Saturday: "A Revolution in Kindness"

Brian McLaren’s final speech was simply outstanding — here are my notes, expanded by my recollections a bit…. Brian: I believe the deepest question facing all Christians — the nagging question, is “is God really kind?” The Bible helps us and also makes this more difficult for us to answer. For example, Romans one tells [...]

Barna Saturday: Why I joined the Revolution

Barna Saturday: Why I Joined the Revolution For most of my life I was on a very different path — I spent twenty-plus years to try to help churches — chronicling the accelerating changes that have now become a revolution. I used the old style or classic quantitative methods — research — who, came, how [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Brian McLaren – Domesticated the true revolutionary power of Christ

Brian McLaren spoke after lunch today…. My unedited notes: Throughout human history , the paradigm has been: people without power are hurt by people with power. So they use the selfish assumptions and violent methods of the powerful to claw themselves into power… so that by the time they have arrived, they themselves are just [...]

Barna Friday: Revolution Defined

Here at the RevCon the first speaker was George Barna. Here are my notes of his content, unnedited with my take…..>>>>> Most Americans have always viewed the goal of life as ongoing shared experiences We work to enjoy comfort and options and control in all facets of our lifee — including church. Yes, there’s a [...]

Back… at Revolution

If you aren’t kind you aren’t right. The jist of Brian McClaren’s opening remarks. After a year of work, I’m on holiday at the Revolution Conference.. I’ll keep you posted with my reactions.