A Vision Conference (VC) is a five-day conference designed for pastors and other Christian leaders. It has three main objectives:
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To help participants rediscover God's glorious vision for the nations-a vision of comprehensive transformation described by Jesus as the Kingdom of God. |
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To help Christians understand and live according to the biblical worldview and to recognize and abandon false, unbiblical beliefs. |
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To provide practical tools and training designed to equip local churches to practice wholistic, incarnational ministry in their own communities using their own resources. |
Vision Conference Sessions
1. The Transforming Story:
Provides a brief overview of God's transforming story and the critical importance of a biblical understanding of man, history, and creation for the development of communities and nations.
2. The Role of the Church in Society:
Presents historical examples of when and how the Church was used by God to transform society. Compares this historical reality with the seeming inability of today's evangelical church to impact its society and looks at the reasons why.
3. The Irreducible Minimum:
Establishes the Scriptural truth that the principle way we demonstrate our love for God is by loving the "neighbors" God has placed in our lives.
4. Luke 2:52 and Development and The Three Relationships of Man:
Examines Jesus' personal development - physically, spiritually, socially and in wisdom. Provides a model for a biblical balance in our personal lives and in the community.
5. The Power of Story:
Introduces the concept of worldview. In addition to seeing how worldview works, this session explores how the Church has abandoned the biblical worldview and the consequences of that for our understanding of the nature of the Church and the Great Commission.
6. God's Intentions for the Future, for the Present, and for the Church:
Examines the biblical evidence for man's brokenness and God's intentions for responding to that brokenness in the future as well as in the present. Examines God's intentions for the role of the Church as it serves as a "window" through which broken humanity can see God's intentions for healing.
7. The ABC's of Culture:
The Web of Lies - Reveals the fundamental building blocks of culture. Satan lies not only to individuals, but also to nations. He replaces Kingdom building blocks of culture with his counterfeit building blocks, resulting in the impoverishment and enslavement of nations.
8. Kingdom Math:
Uses biblical examples to illustrate the mandate for and power of giving the little that we may have to God. Shows how to maximize the use of known resources, discover and use new resources found within the community, and be set free from dependency on outside resources for development.
9. The Kingdom of God:
Offers a summary of the nature of the Kingdom of God and of the Church's Great Commission to disciple (build) nations.
10. Reviving the Reformation:
Presents principles that offer hope for nations trapped in poverty today. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, all the nations of the world were materially impoverished. The Reformation lifted the nations of northern Europe out of poverty and established some of the most free, just, and compassionate societies the world has ever seen. We will look at the principles that brought such national transformation.
11. Seed Projects:
Introduces practical planning strategy and methods for doing development with local resources.
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