- Ministry is soil-specific.
- Too often, we try to copy what has worked somewhere else.
- We have to understand what kind of ocean we are swimming in.
- God introduced Himself as an artist in the beginning.
- We can join God in the work of creation.
- The environment we live in is dramatically different than the environment most people around the world live in.
- God is a God of place.
- God is God of community.
- God is intentional about creating relational environments.
- Throughout history there is a great meta-narrative … God created the garden, to the wilderness tabernacle, to the ending in the city.
- God is intentional in creating spaces and places for community.
- We’ve lost the definition of community.
- We’ve divorced the idea of community from place.
- We’ve lost the idea of doing life together.
- We can redeem places that can become redeeming places.
- Design can be proof of God’s image in us.
- We don’t want to just be critics of culture, we can join God in creating culture.
- We should seek to redeem and restore rather than absorb the land/community.
- There is power of getting past the minimalists reduction philosophy that says form follows function.
- You can redeem things like suburbia… filling the space between spaces.
- Sometimes we need to put some bait on the hook to make us better fishers of men
- What would it look like to release the story inside your local Church and start telling it to your community through your design, architecture, etc.
- The word “campus” makes churches sound like country clubs.
- How do you tear down walls between the Christ and the community?
- We are the temple… we are Church… not the bricks and mortar.
- Our calling is to be the well-diggers of post-modern wells where people connect and do life.
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Q&A
- It is counter-cultural to American culture to do life in connection with your neighbors.
- A theology of presence will become more important part of reaching digital natives.
- Church isn’t an event.
- You’re not producing an event; you are creating a communal experience.
