Monday morning, early morning, a group of us from the northwest flew down to Sacramento CA to meet with various young leaders from the west coast and our General Superintendent, Thomas Trask.
The Topic: How do we engage young leaders.
We covered everything from church planting to open discussion on initial physical evidence.
My brain still hurts from the conversation. There were many good comments and a lot of good feedback. As well as some comments that forced my eyes to pick a spot on the floor and pray for lightning to close the mouth of the current speaker. There are always moments in situations like that where the speaker is ranting or venting and in no way represents the majority of young leaders in our fellowship. It gets tough every now and then.
Overall, a very good day. A lot of fun to hang with good friends.
I was very impressed that our superintendent moderated the conversation himself and honestly opened himself up for some potentially hurtful comments.
Way too much to cover here, if you want more details, email me and we'll grab coffee.
5 comments:
How'd that initial physical evidence discussion go?
Well, it was pretty interesting to say the least. The comments were all over the place from, creating a partial credential for those still processing thier position to a couple comments on changing our position. It was comcluded with clear response from trask that the latter will never happen.
Never??? It doesn't seem like the general understands that eventually you guys will be in charge ;-)
What a day.
To never change a position makes it sound like a dogma and not a doctrine. If something will "never" change then there is no reason for debate. We should all be wonderful little lemmings and jump off the cliff of IPE.
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