pat loughery

Worship: [Jimmy John Morris from Yakima vineyard is drumming. One of the funniest guys you’ll ever meet]
[…] (dunno, coffee-emptying and blog-posting run)
Be Still and Know
Thank You (Whittington…)
If You Say Go (Thiel) [love this song!!!]
Fear of the Lord (Faircloff)

Dave Pardee, NW regional guySee and biker guy and gandalf lookalike
Fun set of jokes : advice for men; advice for women. “I was going to put this on powerpoint, but I didn’t want it in writing”.

Steve Nicholson:
2 church planter interviews: a young Trinity Ev guy in St. Louis; a retired couple in Sandford MN.

Morning Speaker: Julia Pickerill, Columbus Vineyard.
(note to self: wrote an article in Cutting Edge in 2002)

the church – it’s God’s baby. New generations are being birthed into the church; we’re God’s midwives.

The Kingdom sometimes comes in a long labor, scary

The Kingdom sometimes comes quickly in a fast delivery, before we expect it.

(This is a funny, funny woman with passion. wow. another honor).

Brining Kingdom to the next generation

Who is the next generation?
There’s a great song by Green Day: Jesus of Suburbia from American idiot.

Or at the other end of the spectrum is guys like Napoleon (Dynamite).

What are we doing here?

Romans 8:20-21

“If you want to understand how to take the gospel to the next generation you have to realize that lives are unraveling before they even start.”

Remember also that Jesus is the liberator.

video clip: LOTR when Gandalf comes back to helm’s deep: “ride out with me! for death and glory? for Rohan, and your people”.\

“See, that…is who you are!”

our ministry is an incarnational ministry. do what god did: go to it.

4 easy steps to saving the world by some girl named Julia
1. go to where they are
2. get to know who they are
3. serve and suffer and sacrifice for them
4. do it in a way that’s missional: tell them about Jesus in words they can understand.

What’s all the fuss about the emerging stuff it’s nothing new? What did Wimber say? Do the stuff. The reason there’s so much fuss is that we’re just not doing the stuff. It’s the doing of the stuff that’s important.

The emerging church has a couple of questions they’re asking: (questions are always, always good):
1. When does the stuff start? When do we go do it? (healing, social justice, etc. may be different types of stuff)
2.

The EC is responding to pomo and also personal spiritual frustration.
1. EC responds to pomo by evaluating the modern church.
Wimber was asked this question by the Lord: would you go to your church if you weren’t paid to, every week?
The danger for us is that we don’t evaluate our own churches; we evaluate other peoples’ churches.
Whenever we have the

2. ANother thing the EC is evaluating: MOdern American Christians: how do I really reflect Jesus?
In the same way, we don’t ask it of ourselves.
Warning: we develop a sense of pride and.

3. Evaluating modern Christianity.
There is a rich heritage of Christianity past the last 50 years.
Danger: Most of us are not wise/astute enough to do this in a way to create anything other than a mess.

4. Evaluating postmodern culture
Warning: Todd Hunter several years ago said, “he who marries the spirit of the age is sure to be a widow in the next”.
There’s something really important to knowing your culture, learning language.
Write out a list: what in my list is for us, and what is for them?

“If I wrote a book that’s what I’d call it: ‘Just figure it out… whatever.’”.

If THEY can’t get in the front door for any reason, then we’ve missed the boat.

Wimber: “Don’t show me the seeds, show me the fruit.” Show me a church that’s doing well.

some things that must be mentioned:
where’s the global emerging church?
“Where Faith Lives” by Nicolas Kristof (The NY Times, Mar 26 2005)

come at the emerging generations by viewing the global church, and global needs that we can serve (ask young people to see what’s up in darfur).
Video clip: man from snowy river, young guy leaping over the edge.

This is who you guys are.

GO over the edge.

Look at the story of Moses & Joshua
1. For older leaders: Look for people with courage and wholeheartedness. Find people who are younger than you and get to know them. Identify highly relational older people in your church and commission them to get to know younger people.
Num 27:18-20. Bless and release younger leaders into significant ministry. Believe in them. Verbalize it.
Train them up. Deut 8:2. Tell the stories.
Deut 23:28 Encourage them.
Deut 5:32 Teach younger leaders to obey God’s word.
Parent the next generation of your church. YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD.
Make a place for the next gen
Don’t be afraid of pomo spirituality.
Practice “contact work”. Go where they are.
Let young people into the mess of your family.
Expect some chaos.

2. For young leaders
Deut 31:7,8 be strong and courageous, not afraid
Preach the gospel of Jesus everywhere you go.
Receive teaching, training, humility (deut 34:9)
Josh 24:15 choose this day who you’re going to serve. avoid idolatry of the culture. every christian is a thologian; either a good one or a bad one.
serve your culture but be students of the most high god.
keep your household in order.

3 quick words with regard to the emerging vineyard leaders
1. Function over form. you can get away with a lot in the vineyard if you’re functioning right. If people are meeting Jesus, marraiges being restore, people being snet out – do anytyhhing you want with the form. who cares? but choose function over form.
2. Choose actions over words. Don’t get caught up in the dialogue. Once the thing you’re acting on works, talk about it everywhere you go.
3. Christ over cool. Cool never goes to the cross, suffering, service, submission.