::conversation outside the bubble

• Dr King didn’t say I have a complaint, an analysis, a critique, a program!
• Awakening the Dream
o Suicidal system in part 1
o Which Jesus
o Local input
? Each time we make progress, we awaken again to the next new possibility. We keep stepping up. Slavery, women’s right, charity, politics, compassion, one campaign, etc….KEEP MOVING FORWARD
• Deepening the dream in our hearts and [...]

How are these issues playing out in your local community/congregation?
• Panel includes a Unitarian Universalist, Roman Catholic, Artist from Wicker Park Grace Church, Lynn Hybels from Willow, Bob from First United Church of Oak Park
• How do you make this revolution of hope happen?
o Through the revolution of the church
? Church work: What’s done to the keep the church [...]

McLaren – Which Jesus?
• Driscoll (a known critic of emergent, McLaren, Bell, Pagitt, etc) – http://reformedreader.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/driscoll-on-the-emergent-jesus/ also look at http://www.nateberends.com/blog/archives/168
• Left Behind Jesus – regarding a Jesus who destroys the “wicked”
• Baby Jesus – Talladega Nights
• The Jesus that only came to save you from hell
• Matthew 16:13 – “When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi; he [...]

McLaren – Waking up from a really bad dream
• Our hope for the weekend is to wake up to a better dream
o Deepening the dream in our hearts
o Embodying our dreams
o Inviting and working with others in collaboration
• A story about a youth group and a flip chart (McLaren years ago)
o What were biggest issues with your church? – Brian would [...]

My wife and I were able to join a group from Potters Wheel in Janesville, WI and converge upon Oak Park, IL this weekend to a conference called Deep Shift – Everything Must Change. The first person I saw as we walked in the door was a lady I have had a
chance to talk with [...]