Six Tough Questions Facing the Church
As you may be aware, Dr. Reggie McNeal –pastor, author, leadership developer for South Carolina Baptist Convention –is coming to the Greater Portland (OR) area to facilitate a two-day workshop tackling the “six tough questions facing the church.” Others who know and have read Reggie are saying of him: ” …he equips to make the gospel heard in the 21st century.” … he “…asks all the right questions…” There is no more prophetic voice…who can articulate what it means to be faithful in the new missional context…” … and “…Reggie is the leading spokesperson for the new Reformation sweeping the church.”
The Present Future Workshop
October 18-19, 2005
For more info go to:
http://www.fuller.edu/cll/ce/portland.asp
Tualatin Presbyterian Church:
http://www.tpcspirit.com
Tualatin, Oregon
Well, look below and see all that some others have said about our workshop speaker — Reggie :
“No other thinker today better articulates what the American Church needs to do in order to be relevant in our postmodern culture. Anyone who cares about the role of the Church in contemporary American culture should read Reggie McNeal’s book The Present Future in order to be equipped to make the gospel of Jesus Christ heard in the 21st century.”
Scott Dudley, Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue, Washington
“I read Reggie McNeal’s book, The Present Future, last September, and it had such an impact on me, I purchased copies for our entire ministry staff and governing board. Then we used the book as a point of discussion at our annual executive board and staff retreat. It’s reshaping our future. Without giving you all the answers, Reggie asks all the right questions for the church to be the church in the new century.”
Gary Kinnaman, Senior Pastor, Word of Grace Church, Mesa, Arizona
“Reggie McNeal is an original. With side-splitting humor he can make you laugh while skewering his audience with truth. He holds up a mirror to the American church that has become a self-satisfied club and calls us to do kingdom work in a post-Christian world. There is no more prophetic voice to my knowledge who can articulate what it means to be faithful in
the new missional context that the church finds itself today.”
Greg Ogden, Executive Pastor of Discipleship, Christ Church of Oak Brook, Illinois
“Reggie is on a path of challenging the church to connect and engage our culture. So many of his listeners tell me: ‘ I had a growing feeling of restlessness and discontent in my church experience. Reggie articulated my feelings with a diagnosis and solution rooted in the Book of Acts.’ Its my firm conviction Reggie is the leading spokesperson for the new Reformation sweeping the Church.”
Walt Gerber, Senior Pastor (retired), Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, Menlo Park, California
And those six tough questions, in case you haven’t read the book, deal with:
…a collapsing church culture
…a shift from church growth
…a new reformation
…a return to spiritual formation
…a shift from planning to preparing
…the rise of apostolic leadership
Would you be interested in sitting in a room, learning and interacting with someone who is spoken of as these leaders have described him?
We would like to encourage you to join us with your staff, if you can, as we address these six questions together. We believe that this workshop and your hearing God’s voice and His presence may well be the single most significant event for your church and ministry.
You should be receiving the workshop brochure describing this event, in the next few days, but in case you are interested RIGHT NOW, you can open up the attached PDF of the brochure and/or forward it on to others.