New Orleans - A Movement focused on the Gospel

Before we headed into our time in New Orleans several of us thought one of the outcomes was going to be a decision to embrace the emerging church movement or walk away from it. Several of us thought we were going to be asked whether or not that's where we saw the denomination heading. Well, we were wrong. When asked what direction we wanted to see the denomination headed we spoke of the centrality of the Gospel being our clarion call as we move forward. We discussed our denomination being know for keeping the Gospel as our central focus. We talked about being a denomination that didn't just focus on the personal nature of the Gospel, but also on the social implications the Gospel. We talked about our denomination not being known as a denomination, but as a movement. We were dreaming of a MOVEMENT of churches who were exploding with the Gospel as the engine in the church, driving it towards justification, sanctification and glorification! Driving it towards racial reconciliation. Driving it towards impacting our communities. Driving it towards planting more churches! Driving it towards an acceptance of the rewrite of our doctrinal statement.

Time will tell!