Honored and Awed—This is What Graciousness Looks Like
by Pastor Scott Thomas
November 13, 2009
After the Acts 29 Boot Camp in Louisville, Dr Al Mohler, Jr, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, opened his home to six Acts 29 influential leaders: Matt Chandler, Daniel Montgomery, Jamie Munson, Darrin Patrick, Steve Timmis and me. Dan Dumas, Senior Vice President at the Seminary joined in our discussion. We were honored and awed as we walked around Dr Mohler’s personal library and talked about Southern Baptist heritage, denominations and Networks and antiquarian books, including the Textus Receptus, and a first edition of John Owens’ work, The Death of the Death of Christ.
Dr Albert Mohler, Jr
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Welcome back for Day 2 of Boot camp! Please join us for live blogging of the main sessions below. Here's some pictures from yesterday (thanks Churck Heeke!) and tonight we'll try to throw up some more videos for you.
Session 5: Kevin Cawley - Decoding Your City & Ambition / 10:30am EDT
Session 6: Bob Thune - Discipleship & Ambition / 11:30am EDT
Video update - 2:55pm EDT - Workshops are underway and we have a few videos of Acts 29 Church planters to share.
Mid-day video 1: Jason Martin on Fighting Idolatrous Ambition as a Church Planter
Jason planted The Journey Church near Atlanta, Georgia, and here at the Boot Camp to help with assessments and connect with conference attendees and his Acts 29 brothers. He gave us a few minutes to answer the ...
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Acts 29 has been conducting Boot Camps since its inception in 2000. The goal of these introductory church-planting conferences is to introduce Biblical church planting concepts as understood through the gospel and a missional ecclesiology. I attended my first Boot Camp in Seattle in 2003 with 40 other people. I still have the notebook provided because it was so impactful in my life.
Our next boot camp is upcoming in Louisville, KY on November 10-11 hosted by the great Sojourn Church led by the dynamic duo of Daniel Montgomery (teaching and vision) and Mike Cosper (worship and arts).
You can register here.
So, if one can get the audio files within a week or two of a Boot Camp, why should one attend one? If it is content-driven, as Stetzer describes it in an ...
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Tim Challies Reviews Al Mohler's New Book on the 10 Commandments
"We’ve seen a steady stream of books come from Mohler’s pen in the past couple of years. I have read them all and am quite comfortable saying that this one is the best of the bunch. Logically, consistently, biblically, Mohler looks to the Ten Commandments and then calls us to live in light of those laws, not as people burdened by rules, but as a grateful people acting in love toward a great God." By the way, there's a similar, excellent book by an Acts 29 pastor's wife on teaching the 10 Commandments to your children.
'It's Not Your Church!' R. Scott Clark on Attitudes Towards Church Planting
The Westminster professor & author blogs succinctly on the biblical mandate for the church to be sent, ...
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