June 25, 2009

From Facebook to Face Time

From Bill Donahue

Preview Article from Rev! Sept/Oct 2009  

It remains a challenge to connect new people who are seeking meaningful, transformational relationships through the local church. Sign up forms, web-based strategies; social networking and “all our groups are posted in the lobby” are attempts to provide broad-scale assimilation pathways for interested community-seekers. But what works best? Read more...

June 19, 2009

Is Real Change Possible

From Greg Bowman
In a recent talk here in the Chicago area, Dallas Willard made a comment on spiritual formation that haunts me. “…all this appears to the ordinary Christian today like near or distant galaxies in the night sky: visible, somehow, but inaccessible in the conditions of life as we know them. Hence you will rarely meet an individual Christian who is seriously engaged in the transformation depicted in the Bible…or who even has a hope for anything like it this side of heaven.” Read more...
June 16, 2009

Group Life Update

From Greg Bowman

 During the first months of 2009 the Group Life team and the WCA have been evaluating new strategies and technologies to better serve the local church during tough economic times. I want to update you on some of the resulting changes to the 2009 Group Life Conference that will impact our guests. Read more...