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I came into connection with Forge after having a life changing experience on short term mission in the Middle East. Jay and I went to see what God was like in a place where most people didn’t follow him, to see if he was the same God that we knew here in Melbourne. A bit [...]
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Clearly I’ve been quite absent lately.
One of the things I’ve been doing is starting to organise some Forge business in the northern suburbs. This is our first gathering, come along if you can make it.
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Marcus Curnow. The Economy of God.
Resourcing a spirituality of engagement: Living the Word on the Street
Message of Jesus into a bumper sticker.
- finding your life by losing it.
- Jesus is a bloke.
- [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Baxter Krueger.
God is over here, big gap in between us and him. - all other religions
Jesus has come and embraced us, covered the gap in between us and him. - Christianity
Christianity is [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Alan Hirsch. Forge National Director.
How does the early church and chinese church grow so fast?
- there are many elements, but some don’t relate to spirituality, so they will be dealt with elsewhere.
- [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Daryl Gardiner.
Matt 6 - the things we do in secret the Father in heaven sees and rewards.
- we are the people of the little things rather than the big things (in societies [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Mark Pierson. Urban Seed.
Worship sustains people in the following of Christ in the world.
leader has a responsibility to sustain people in their place in the world. Not about pushing them into what [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Alan Hirsch
All vices are virtues misdirected. We must direct our life toward the One.
Christology.
- understanding that we have Jesus and his work on our behalf.
- Christology determines Missiology determines Ecclesiology.
- Christology lies [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Olivia MacLean. Spiritual Disciplines of Solace.
- Book. Remaking - a workbook for Spiritual Formation.
- Make manifest the glory of God that is in us.
- Solace exists to bring out the ‘fabulousness’ in [...]
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I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Mark Sayers. Discipleship.
This intensive about our heart’s motivation, not only our heart’s but the heart’s of those we seek to lead.
There has been lots of reshaping of how we meet and what [...]
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