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Total Church Conference North America

Be the Church
Total church is a way of thinking about church and mission in the 21st century which sees the local Christian community as integral to Christian living and Christian mission. The Christian life is ‘total church’ – our identity is communal.

Why Attend?
Create a community centered on the gospel, equipped to do the work of the ministry.
Make your community a community of church planters.
See what it means to be the church on mission through ordinary life with gospel intentionality.
Dialog with missional church leaders from across the world.
Learn from seasoned practitioners how to form missional communities and transition traditional churches toward mission.

Main Sessions

Day One
1. A community-centred gospel (Steve)
The gospel is not simply the story of God saving me, but the story of God saving a new community and renewing creation.

2. A gospel-centred community (Steve)
Church is not an institution or a building, but a community of people united by the gospel sharing their lives together.

Day Two
3. Rethinking attractional church (Tim)
Sometimes missional and attractional are portrayed as opposite choices. Sometimes NT missiology is portrayed as centrifugal in contrast to a centripetal OT missiology. But biblical mission is always attractional and centripetal. What changes in the NT is the centre! We attract people to gospel community and litter gospel communities across the world.

4. Remodelling attractional church (Steve)
Attractional church is not about getting people to come to meetings, but sharing lives and introducing people to the Christian community (the rope model). Mission through ordinary life with gospel intentionality.

Day Three
5. Making disciples for missional church (Tim)
Every Christian is a church planter. We need people with missional DNA living lives shaped by the cross and resurrection.

6. Making disciples in missional church (Tim)
Pastoring one another with the gospel in community. Pastoring one another in ordinary life with gospel intentionality.

Breakout Sessions
Break-out Sessions will be led by church planters/practitioners from The Crowded House, Kaleo Church, Soma Community & Providence Community. Sessions will be added but will include:

Beyond Total Church – Sowing the Seeds of a Movement
Moving from Traditional to Missional – “What do I do next?”
Engaging the Domains of Society – From Business to Media and Beyond
Communicating in a Post-Christian Culture
Evangelising the Urban Poor
New ways of funding a plant & planter in a missional movement.

Register Here
Stay-tuned as more sessions are added