Ah, Tony in his usual form, trying to get everyone riled up and thinking. They had people talk at the tables about what thier dream church would be, what three things do we think the church can be and needs to be. Then they had people share. One lady said that she thought we should make love more (pause) real to people, or something to that effect. A lot of us in the room couldn't help but chuckle at the awkward placement of the pause.
Tony said something that really stuck out to me when people were sharing. Someone said that the church needs to be more relevant, which is something I've said before. Tony said he was more concerned with the church being more authentic than more relevent. That authenticity was more imporant than relevancy.
He also shared that we need not be afraid of the troubling texts in God's Word, but we do need to acknowledge it, and take the good with the bad instead of pretending the bad doesn't exist. He used Jephthah's story in Judges 11 as a text of something incredibly sad and horrendous.
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