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Please give me 15 minutes to explain to you why “like-mindedness” is a bad idea.(This post concerns thoughts surrounding the NEXT Church conference. For a recap of said conference and the debate following it, follow the link I reference below. In case you begin wondering, I was encouraged to post this to my blog by Rocky Supinger, who also helped me correct factual errors and who was kind enough to make sure my tone and tenor was appropriate. Also, in the spirit of full disclosure, some of this text is an adaptation...
John is providing a roundup on the NEXT Church debrief, and he says two things I want to chime in on. 1) "This is just the beginning." I have heard this repeatedly since the conference ended, as I voiced my frustrations. People are telling me my expectations were too high. Fine. Perhaps they were, but when a gathering is called "NEXT Church" can you blame me? There. I'll be done with that. 2) This is the one that I think is really important: And, I think it is actually significant that there were...
I'm not someone you'd probably like. Unless you like people like that...then you'd love me.
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