Sessions #12 & #13, Conder

Conder provides seasoned insights into the ECM and counsel about transitioning the church. I really appreciated his approach and dialogue with modern church leaders. His spirit is generous rather than cynical or snobbish about being a "cool" ECM leader. This ongoing connection with the modern church is important to avoid making the same modern mistakes with new window dressing, we can learn and need to learn from church history as we envision the future.

He explains why the ECM defies being boxed in and defined then provides 7 passion principles (core values) that guide the ECM (p. 25). He then moves on to describe the 7 fears of the ECM (p. 40, Loss of truth, personal faith, & changeless gospel; p. 60, loss of the Word; p. 69, loss of morality/ethics; p. 79, loss of tradition and its praxis; p. 86, loss of identity).

One integrative question: Contrast and compare the 7 ECM Passions and 7 ECM Fears by describing your 7 ECM Conversations on these 7 issues you might have with a conservative, modern, fearful, sincere deacon in the context of a modern church. Perhaps you had some of these conversations with people in your congregation about changing something in the worship service or youth ministry. Feel free to adapt the question to your context, e-mail me if you have questions.