Antenna06 my notes on Jason Clark's session

Hello there, finally I could recover my notes from the Antenna06 day, and want to share the points that I found the most important from the speakers. So, hereunder, what Jason Clark shared. I hope comments will come afterwards, since he lifted up several subjets deserving further conversation.

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Diagnostic of the same problem: how do we express our faith in a way that naturally attracts people, and involves Jesus in all areas of life.

What is the emergent church/ (missional church)

Difficult to define, because it is very broad

Approach: “our best”; the way of saying things is key. If it’s rude, nobody wants to go further. So, for discussion, a kind of respect should prevail.

Market place: Where are the spaces & places where the church should be?
Sunday event model: Two extremes in the emergent thinking: The Kingdom is present in the service, and focus on formality, or do what is pleasant, focusing on informality. Within the emergent movement there is the propensity towards a very informal model (meetings in Strabuck’s, golf playing, etc.) This is not right either.

The Church mission is to invade the world, every space and place. How do we bring whole life discipleship to private life, to friendships, to congregations, to the work and other?

Church is the places where you meet people you don’t like, or you won’t have normally fellowship with, or those that are different to you, and have love for each other nevertheless.

The Medias: How do we communicate?

We have to communicate with narrative, histories, and pictures. Communication is moving to a world where a picture is worth of 1000 words, the largest truth is the image of Christ at the Cross.

The message: What do we communicate? What do we believe?

Gospel is not the information to get people into heaven when they die. Accept intellectually this information. This approach may be called “Gospel of selfishness”.

Maybe the problem is that people are rejecting the way we communicate the gospel. Reformers faced church and culture. We think that we arrived there, and there is nothing in front. The job of church is to take the truth of the gospel and communicate/reinterpret to the population.

How do we bring the reality of Jesus to a society that has been changing so rapidly?

What does that look like?

Christianity should invade all of my life, engage with it with other Christians

Important remark: Some of us are called not to change but to preserve!
We need each other, because, and despite all, the Church is still the Body of Christ!