{"id":2701,"date":"2007-10-01T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/delaware.html"},"modified":"2007-10-01T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:20:16","slug":"delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/delaware.html","title":{"rendered":"Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a busy week. After speaking at Willow’s group life conference Thursday morning and then doing a workshop on Missional Jesus Thursday afternoon, we got up at 4:15am Friday and flew to Baltimore where we were picked up by three missional pastors: Brian, Mark and JR Woodward.
\nJR interviewed me during our trip to the Purple Pastor<\/a>‘s Eastpoint <\/a>church in Newark, Delaware, and you can find the interview here<\/a>. Then we rested up, had some lunch, and had a conversation with a goodly number of pastors in the Ecclesia Project, directed by Chris Backer, about Missional Jesus, but we focused on the relationship of kingdom of God to church. You may know I don’t like either seeing the kingdom as some kind of big scheme with the church only being a little part of this and I don’t like this because I can’t find the kingdom used that way in the New Testament. Nor do I like de-politicizing the church or the gospel. So, we had a good talk.
\nDinner that night (somewhere) with about 25 from that group — and we enjoyed conversation with many, including Todd Hiestand<\/a>, JR Woodward<\/a>, Gary … from Princeton… and Tom Ward. We met Todd’s friend, Scott Hackman<\/a> — who roasts One Village<\/a> coffee — and a bundle of others, too many to name here. We called JR Briggs<\/a> to tell him we saved a place for him.
\nRested up and Saturday morning I addressed Eastpoint Church, led by the Purple Pastor Tom Ward and his father, also Tom Ward, on the themes of Embracing Grace<\/a>\"\"<\/em> and how we can convert our churches and small groups into missional groups. What a great group with honest and thoughtful questions.
\nTom (Sr) and Gloria Ward hosted everyone for a wonderful lunch; we chatted and wondered aloud.
\nThen John and Tracy Dickerson (Tracy is a North Park seminary student) very kindly took us back to the airport; we had some engaging conversation there and met some new friends. Kris and I relaxed a bit at the airport, and had an uneventful trip home.
\nIt’s good to be home, but we had a wonderful week which we will never forget — we like what God is doing in the church.
\nLesson for me that Kris and I talked about: about ten pastors at the Willow conference informed me privately that this blog is having a pastoral influence on them. It made us grateful and even more committed to what is happening in this conversational community we call the Jesus Creed. Thanks to each of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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