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Archive for August, 2011
Free 3DM Workshop on Discipleship & Mission Coming to Chicago
I’ve already offered a couple posts on the partnership Northern is entering into with 3DM through the Learning Communities they do (part 1/part 2). Related to that, Mike Breen & other members of the 3DM team are coming up our way to offer a free workshop on the topics of discipleship & mission and their relevance for the life & vitality of local churches.
The workshop will take place on Friday, October 28 at Northern’s Lindner Conference Center.
More info and registration here.
Aside from the straight-up excellent content & discussion that will surely mark this workshop, it’ll be a perfect opportunity for anyone who is interested in learning more about 3DM as a ministry and what they do as well as ask any questions you might have about the academic partnership we’re beginning.
Hope to see you there.
Oh, by the way, this will kind of flow into the annual Missional Learning Commons event. I’ll post more on that real soon.
Northern Seminary & 3DM: Discipleship-Oriented Theological Education (Part 2)
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that as part of my role at Northern Seminary, I was in Pawley’s Island, SC working w/ the good people of 3DM to flesh out how those who participate in a 3DM Learning Community can apply that experience toward a seminary degree. Let me describe Learning Communities briefly. (check here for more)
Learning Communities are open to church planters and small (3-5) church staff teams. LC’s are structured around 4 intensives:
1) Building a Discipling Culture
2) Multiplying Missional Leaders
3) Leading Missional Communities
4) Establishing Centers of Mission.
During these intensives, church planters and teams have the opportunity to learn from the experience and insight of church leaders drawing on decades of ministry experience in Post-Christian England, work through the details of this teaching for their specific ministry context, and build 6-month strategic ministry plans that members of the 3DM team will mentor and coach them through during weekly “huddle” calls until the following intensive. That’s just a basic sketch, it doesn’t even begin to get into the ways that they intersperse worship and ministry time with social time for connecting and building relationships. It’s really an all-around incredible experience as I’ve said before.
So, we’ve been working on pairing this existing paradigm of training and formation with additional course work, i.e., books, writing (reflection & research) projects, and assessment exercises, to create something of a “Scholar Track.” Guess what excites me most is that as I have shared this with a number of people, including people who are thinking about seminary, are in seminary, or have finished seminary, the response has been the same, “Man, that’s what all of theological education should look like!” (By the way, if you’re one of those people, drop me a line directly via the contact page and I can share a little more about how you might be part of a growing initiative in this regard).
On Northern’s end, we hope that new and existing students will want to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in a 3DM Learning Community as way to, on the one hand, bring the issues of discipleship and mission to the forefront of their education and formation, and on the other, to benefit from a learning experience that is rooted in community as well as a local ministry context.
On 3DM’s end, we are hoping that making this option available will be not just an added incentive to those who are interested in working toward a seminary degree, but will bring a dimension to their experience that proves additionally valuable and formative. In either case, doing so will result in 9 courses that count as…
1) The completion of an entire Certificate Program
2) An emphasis of courses that count toward the completion of an MA or MDiv at Northern (or which can be transferred to another school’s program)
3) The focus section of a DMin degreeMaybe just me, but I happen to think this is a pretty exciting opportunity. Anyone have any thoughts or reactions?
Tweets for the Week : 2011-08-29
- from the lifeasmission archives: Hope Has Died http://j.mp/g4ICbg #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Tweets for the Week : 2010-10-18 http://j.mp/nBO849 #
- from the lifeasmission archives: God is as God Acts http://j.mp/aYYWTW #
- from the lifeasmission archives: David Fitch on Willowcreek's REVEAL http://j.mp/g6SeZU #
- from the lifeasmission archives: The Dark Knight http://j.mp/kYprIu #
- shared: The Incarnation: Some Clarifications on an Abused Term – Post#1 http://j.mp/nF6HFU #
- from the lifeasmission archives: NT Wright and the Emerging Church http://j.mp/a5LRIZ #
Tweets for the Week : 2011-08-22
- from the lifeasmission archives: The Church Emerging and the Multi-Cultural Future of Western Christianity http://j.mp/dtOzuy #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Tweets for the Week : 2011-03-14 http://j.mp/otfNqK #
- Gotta tell you, I just don't see me becoming a Google+ guy. Any devotees out there want to try and sell me? #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Jesus – A Theological Deconstructionist http://j.mp/rmDmHh #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Day 1 http://j.mp/hwvQon #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Quite the Day http://j.mp/d1CLNI #
- Aubrey, @amyrozko & I R flying home after 2 great wks of work w/ @dougpaul81 @Mike_Breen & the 3DM crew. Paul hospitality is legendary! #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Are You Shining? http://j.mp/b7ZK1z #FB #
- For someone who's probably most accurately described as a 1 on the Enneagram, this was side-splittingly funny. #FB http://t.co/Gb3O2QP #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Say Anything http://j.mp/lavoIX #FB #
Tweets for the Week : 2011-08-15
- from the lifeasmission archives: Missional Community in a Capitalistic Society http://j.mp/lOEu2U #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: How (not) to Plant a Church! http://j.mp/91AFdV #FB #
- Charlotte for the weekend. Aubrey is channeling her inner Southern Bell. http://t.co/InQXX7w #
- Banana spider spotted on my morning run. Roughly the size of my hand. Crazy huge web. http://t.co/iXB6Z70 #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Ministry in a Postmodern Context http://j.mp/bPGDBi #FB #
- Discovering, as I listen to @dougpaul81 & Gavin hang whiteboards, that these projects are a goldmine 4 "that's what she said" references #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Missional Learning Commons http://j.mp/4ZyM2H #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: A Mother's Day Tribute http://j.mp/oOsErH #FB #
- Fancy pants dinner. Pineapple chicken over pepper & cheese risotto ala @dougpaul81. Nice. #FB http://twitpic.com/6446ie #
- Still asking, what is the most frustrating thing about our current sys. of theological edu.? Check out my #FB wall, Facebook.com/jrrozko #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Kingdom Stimulation http://j.mp/96wmD5 #FB #
- If you retweet people who make much of you, you pretty much undo whatever benefit you might have to offer. #
- The single most frustrating thing about our current system of theological education is…? Go! #FB #
- shared: The Parish System http://j.mp/oeuHzT #
- Early morning @ the beach w/ @amyrozko and our little girl. #FB http://twitpic.com/63dzph #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Dang it… http://j.mp/fjXmwQ #FB #
Tweets for the Week : 2011-08-08
- from the lifeasmission archives: On Being Missional http://j.mp/aLECbo #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: CCDA Update http://j.mp/iyvBeh #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: A ViralHope Video http://j.mp/agfvLb #FB #
- Look out world of theological education, @dougpaul81 & I are coming for ya! Jazzed about some of the stuff we put together today. #FB #
- shared: Why We Don’t Make Disciples http://j.mp/n3K40K #
- shared: Absence of Exegetical Prejudice? http://j.mp/pugu31 #
- shared: How to know if you’re a “mature” Christian http://j.mp/r5n2LK #
- It's sad to see how few Christians exhibit the strength of Jesus to refuse the advances of those who seek to make much of us. #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Would Jesus Get Any E-Harmony Action? http://j.mp/dCBS1V #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Sign http://j.mp/kMT8bt #FB #
- Check out this deal. $6 for $12 of food @ Penn Station. Best subs around in my opinion. Hop on it! http://t.co/VKyRYFx #FB #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Human Trafficing :: Global Awareness :: Missional Church http://j.mp/ddwIiQ #FB #
- Aubrey's about to enjoy her first post-utero plane ride. The 3 Rozko's are off to SC! http://instagr.am/p/JKnC3/ #
- from the lifeasmission archives: Discussing Church, Christ, and Community http://j.mp/bvJkBd #FB #
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