So Steve and I went down to Louisville to join Tom Ascol and some other friends from Founders Ministries to discuss church planting and church planting networks with Daniel Montgomery, founding pastor of Sojourn Community Church. We finally got to see their amazing new facility and talk philosophy of ministry with Daniel, Mike Cosper and Michael Winters as it relates to art, culture and community and their art center The 930. I would love for Sojourn to put together a DVD laying out their history, philosophy and ministry. Guys?
Most of our time was spent getting a crash course in church planting networks by Daniel. The men gathered are truly burdened to see and participate in the planting of confessional and missional churches, and I believe this was a very helpful meeting.
In all my interactions with various churches Sojourn is one of the best example of a strongly theological, Gospel-centered, culturally redemptive, Baptist fellowship with a fine tuned, yet constantly maturing, philosophy of ministry and leadership. If you are in or driving through Louisville be sure to check out Sojourn and the The 930.
We were also able to see some friends, stop by ear x-tacy, eat some Scotch Eggs and hit the seminary book store. It was a great time. The only downsides were missing my family for a few days and enduring Steve’s poorly crafted argument concerning the nature of a “redneck.”
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Steve’s poorly crafted argument concerning the nature of a “redneck.”
Oh I’d love to hear that one.
Josh
“…the word of God is not bound.”
–2 Timothy 2:9
“Poorly crafted” was probably unfair. I should have said “too narrow.”
Joe,
I am definitely planning on swinging by the 930 and Sojourn when I am in Louisville later this month. In fact, I am leaving early to go to the 930 and am going to try to hit a service at Sojourn while in town. I was checking out their website, and their work in the city looks pretty sweet.
James
Glad the trip was good. It was good to see you bro.
We’re very interested at Riverbend Church in church planting. Can you tell us about the outcome of your discussions?
Joe,
As a bonafide “redneck” and “hillbilly” to boot and someone who has spent much hours with Steve, I can honestly tell you he doesn’t have the foggiest about the nature of either.
Shawn
Oops! I meant “Mucho” hours, not “much” hours. Guess I really did sound like a hillbilly!
Shawn
*chuckle
City or country its kind of like calling someone a liberal and generally thats just a matter of how far to my left someone is standing. Tulsa’s got what, like 500K? Compared to Chicago thats a one horse town. But to me its pretty big.
Anyway, I hope the church planting network thing works out for you all Joe.
Josh
“…the word of God is not bound.”
–2 Timothy 2:9
That’s our granddaddy church!
Sojourn New Orleans
Is that Tom Nettles in the picture with Daniel?
Joe, I’m glad you and Steve got to drop by Sojourn and The 930. I wish I had known you guys were in town. I’d love to finally meet you guys. Thank you for your kind words about our church and our gallery/music venue. It is such a blessing to be able to love Louisville and show them Christ.
Andy, yep.
Laura, we would have loved to meet you and Alex. I am trying to plan a trip down with some leadership from our church to worship with you guys.
Awesome! We’d love to see you guys!
Also, I’ve been wanting to mention to you… I think you would enjoy Alex’s latest music project Interstates - http://www.interstatesmusic.com - and he makes films to show with each of his songs. Some of the films involve trains, of course.
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