Unedited notes from the afternoon session.
(I missed a chunk of this session)

Dave Ferguson

A big part of this is establishing apostolic culture.

  • Ordain every Christ-follower. You are a chosen people, you are a royal priesthood – the priesthood of all believers
  • Lead with a “Yes” – ask “How” later on. Develop a “yes” reflex. Don’t always say “No”
  • Teach them to “go” not just “bring.”
  • Plant the Gospel before planting a church – what’s good news to the group you’re called to?
  • Incarnational AND apostolic – bring along the apprentice – incarnational and reproductive

Dave Watson

We need to put aside the structure of our church and connect to the structures we live in. Some populations will require us to not be at the church on Sunday mornings. Our strategy has to be defined by the structures we’re trying to reach. Could you take a job in a sweat shop to work with sweat shop workers in order to reach them? They cannot be reached through the standard means. Somebody had to give up a good paying job and take a bad paying job in order to reach that group.

Do you know the structures in your community? Do you have any concept of what it will take to penetrate that structure? We have to be able to talk to people in those structures and find out what their needs are so that we can become friends with the right to share the Gospel rather than interlopers who interject the Gospel?