Hugh Halter

Was going through my email file last night and found this encouraging one from a dear gal in our community.

“I can’t make it for the dinner on Friday, though i would like to. i just want to take a minute, though, to thank you and Matt and your families for starting this thing.  I watch the other kids that I’ve gone to school with over the past year, and they’re struggling with faith.  i am too.  i still don’t really know what i think about much of anything, nor how to interact with all of the ideas i’ve been exposed to over the past four years; some of them beautiful, some of them frightening.i feel, though, that adullam has been an anchor for me, of sorts.  your (our) ability to embrace a lot of the insights of postmodern culture while
clinging to orthodox christianity has been a constant reminder and challenge to me that there are some things from the faith that i grew up with, legalistic though it was, that are worth keeping–”the gift of Christianity to the world is not Christianity, it is Jesus”i sit in church sometimes and listen to you talk, and i think to myself, “yes, i know this, i’ve heardthis before…” but then i stop and remember that these are things i never heard in church growing up.  i heard them in
college: they were some of the beautiful ideas–like the talk we had on Romans 14 a few weeks ago–that made my major compelling and exciting.  The ideas that made me want to teach.  it’s such a gift to be able to say that i can hear those things in my church and know that other people are hearing them, too–at church, where they should be hearing them,not in college for eighty thousand dollars. thanks for what you do
god bless
Michelle

Hey friends, every year Missio enjoys the opportunity of providing a place for like-minded leaders to gather and discuss around the ideas and practice of incarnational church.  Last year we had Mike Frost and Alan Hirsch. The last two years they’ve done an incredible job setting the Christilogical foundation for missionary church in the West.  Early on, we felt like we still had to prove that we better get onto something more than just doing church better or differently.  Now, we feel that most have bought in, swallowed the blue pill, and are ready to let the winds of God blow some new helium into our collective church sails.   So this year, we move on!!! We’re discussing, “How the Church can make the Kingdom Tangible.”  Nice play off the title of our book ay?!! Starving authors will do almost anything to get the word out!!

Actually, the book title, and the conference title relfect where our heart is at right now for the church.  We want to see the church regain the favor of the culture and be faithful to a much larger gospel than it has in the past.  We sense leaders are ready too, but HOW?  WHAT? WITH WHOM?  If you want to join us, we’d love to have you for two days of fun together.

You can get info on our missio site.  If my fabulous administrator KEVIN, reads this, he may even load up the latest email promo to make it easier for you.

Take care, and hope to see you.

hugh