The Evangelizing Pastors will meet on October 21 10:30am at Christ Bethesda. Lunch will be served. Please let us know if you will attend and will join us for lunch.
We will be setting up a video conference to talk about young adult ministry and more specificaly what to offer through the local church. We are pursuing Len Sweet and a couple of other possible people in the emergent church network.
The purpose of our group is to promote conversations about evangelism work, share dreams, hatch ideas, lift up concerns, invite prayer, encourage and just chat about Kingdom work.
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I just saw "Into the Wild" and am thinking that it would be an excellent tool for discussing faith particularly with young adults. Chris McCandless grew up in Annandale, VA and after graduating from college, gave away all his money and possessions and dropped away from family and the pressures of Suburban life in a Tolstoy like quest to find meaning in life. He winds up trapped in the wilderness in Alaska. What he finds, I think, is a rich community of people who become like family to him. In many ways they represent God to him and try to point him toward community and wholeness.
I think it would be an excellent launching point from which to discuss the pressures of young adults, solitude, authority, rebellion, and faith. This is also a really well written book by Jon Krakauer.
Has anyone else seen the movie or read the book?
The music (some of it by Pearl Jam) and the incredible photography of the American West and Alaska add to the beautiful telling of this story. Based on conversations with my 20-something sons I agree with Phil that this movie can lead to some great discussions with young people. The movie asks some very basic questions about how one chooses to live their life.
I will be at the next meeting on April 22nd.
I just found the following offered as the Quote of the Week on Sojourners web site. It made me think of our group's last meeting discussion on voting/concensus gathering within the church.
"We recoil from nonviolence at our peril. Dr. King rightly saw it at the heart of democracy. Our nation is a great cathedral of votes — votes not only for Congress and for president, but also votes on Supreme Court decisions and on countless juries. Votes govern the boards of great corporations and tiny charities alike. Visibly and invisibly, everything runs on votes. And every vote is nothing but a piece of nonviolence."
- Historian Taylor Branch, in a recent op-ed, "The Last Wish of Martin Luther King." (Source: The New York Times )
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