Connecting Series
Session 1
Offers a welcome and a brief purpose statement that includes a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “Christianity is community”.
Session 2
Focuses on defining and contrasting different types of communities in Christian settings, particularly in response to the question, “What would Jesus say?”
Session 3
Exploring what it truly means to “go to church” and what constitutes a healing, authentic community.
Session 4
The video discusses the concept of a healing community based on a commitment to two major hopes: radical honesty and radical grace.
Session 5
The speaker is discussing God’s provision for healing community and encourages the development of an “unmanageable vision” for what is possible.
Session 6
The speaker uses a personal story about a conversation with his wife, Rachel, concerning a point of tension in their marriage, to illustrate the central problem of the “image and the flesh” in tension.
Session 7
The speaker is hosted by North Coast and feels a strong sense of shared vision with the church there. The core idea of the presentation is casting a vision for “connecting” and developing a “healing community”.
Session 8
The speaker emphasizes that developing a true healing community is a “sloppy” and frustrating process with no “10 steps”.
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The speaker emphasizes that developing a true healing community is a “sloppy” and frustrating process with no “10 steps”.