Gospel Movements (Part 1): District Conference Call

What is a Gospel Movement? Why did Christianity grow explosively at first, but not now? By looking at two key dynamics, the LMC District Conference Call on 11/29/21 explored how the common approach to church isn’t well aligned to discipleship and how the climate of our church is limiting how people express the DNA of the Gospel.

If This is What’s Wrong, What Do We Do?

While there’s a lot that is not working, Jesus is still working and always has been. Our process of change begins with repentance — allowing the deep process of God changing our hearts and minds. We’ll be working on this process as we take practical steps in The Wave & The Way group on this site. Go to the Workshop page and click enroll. You’ll find resources and a link to the group page where you can connect with others. In short our process will be:

1. Reconnecting with Jesus and his Way of life and ministry.
2. Create contextualized discipleship pathways that we can live out and teach others to do the same.
3. Allow organic expressions of missional community to evolve as we journey together.

For many of us, our first task under Number 1: Reconnecting with Jesus is a season of prayer and fasting for the month of December.

Interested in the Presentation?

The presentation used on the call is available in the following ways:

1. Click Gospel Movements and the presentation will start on the first frame in this browser in a new tab or window. You should be able to then put your browser in full-screen mode if you wish ([F11], or [fn+F11] on some computers). Use the cursor keys or click you mouse to navigate through the presentation.
2. Download the Zip Archive of the presentation files and unzip it on your computer. After it is unzipped, go to your web browser and use File > Open (you may need to hit [Alt] to see File) and select “gosepl_movements-sozi-20211031.sozi_.html”.
3. Get the SVG file (after clicking the link, save the webpage to download it on your computer) and use a vector program like free Inkscape to view and edit it.

This presentation was made using the free programs Inkscape vector drawing and Sozi presentation animator.