Comments on: ORIGINS — the MOSAIC leadership experience 2006 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/ the MOSAIC leadership conference Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:27:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: stephen http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-24 stephen Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:05:38 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-24 Top Ten Reasons to Hit Up Origins this year: 10) Southern California weather 9) Sight Seeing (Hollywood, OC, Pacific Ocean, etc...) 8) Meeting new friends on the journey of the missional life 7) Incredible Creative Spirit and Vibe that dwells with our Mosaic LA friends 6) Servant Leadership 5) Passion for Life and Living 4) Late Night Conversations over the Future the way God sees it 3) Commissioning of World Changers 2) Vision, Excitement and Purpose for the Path that lies ahead of you 1) 2 Words------- "IN and OUT" (if you don't know...then ask!) See you all in 4 weeks! Top Ten Reasons to Hit Up Origins this year:

10) Southern California weather
9) Sight Seeing (Hollywood, OC, Pacific Ocean, etc…)
8) Meeting new friends on the journey of the missional life
7) Incredible Creative Spirit and Vibe that dwells with our Mosaic LA friends
6) Servant Leadership
5) Passion for Life and Living
4) Late Night Conversations over the Future the way God sees it
3) Commissioning of World Changers
2) Vision, Excitement and Purpose for the Path that lies ahead of you
1) 2 Words——- “IN and OUT” (if you don’t know…then ask!)

See you all in 4 weeks!

]]> By: Kirk Schneemann http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-23 Kirk Schneemann Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:37:13 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-23 Attending Origins last year was one of the highlights of the year for me. I was stimulated by the experience in a multitude of ways—intellectual, artistic, spiritual, and relational. Many conferences can be captured with a series of MP3 recordings. Origins is so much more than eloquent lectures, however. It is filled with multi-sensory encounters that breathe life into the soul and a rich communty of fellow pilgrims to join you on the journey. Kirk Schneemann Spiritual Entrepreneur Frontline Church, Ann Arbor Attending Origins last year was one of the highlights of the year for me. I was stimulated by the experience in a multitude of ways—intellectual, artistic, spiritual, and relational. Many conferences can be captured with a series of MP3 recordings. Origins is so much more than eloquent lectures, however. It is filled with multi-sensory encounters that breathe life into the soul and a rich communty of fellow pilgrims to join you on the journey.

Kirk Schneemann
Spiritual Entrepreneur
Frontline Church, Ann Arbor

]]> By: LJ Reid http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-22 LJ Reid Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:12:45 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-22 Origans helped change my life. Forget every conference, seminar, retreat, or church meeting of any kind. I was shaken during the first 5 minutes and crying soon after. I was face to face with the living God of the Universe. Over several days I saw many ways God had been trying to speak to me that I had missed. Several years ago, I was somehow drawn to check it out, but concerned that as a filmaker I would be out of place with hundreds of pastors. What I found out is that I am a teacher. I am now on a journey, following Jesus... for me and to have something to say. Lawrence Reid filmaker/mosaic/VOX Los Angeles Origans helped change my life. Forget every conference, seminar, retreat, or church meeting of any kind. I was shaken during the first 5 minutes and crying soon after. I was face to face with the living God of the Universe. Over several days I saw many ways God had been trying to speak to me that I had missed.

Several years ago, I was somehow drawn to check it out, but concerned that as a filmaker I would be out of place with hundreds of pastors. What I found out is that I am a teacher. I am now on a journey, following Jesus… for me and to have something to say.

Lawrence Reid
filmaker/mosaic/VOX
Los Angeles

]]> By: Steve Norman http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-21 Steve Norman Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:32:32 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-21 If you only get to do one leadership development opportunity this year, as a team or individual, make it ORIGINS. It captures the essence of what makes Mosaic the innovative,missional community that it is. It's a gathering for mystic leaders, dreamers, servants and creators. If you're "ministry conferenced" out or tired of being sold a specific model, come connect with people who believe that the Spirit of God wants to unleash new expressions in new contexts with unique teams. peace Steve Norman Genesis: The Church Detroit If you only get to do one leadership development opportunity this year, as a team or individual, make it ORIGINS. It captures the essence of what makes Mosaic the innovative,missional community that it is. It’s a gathering for mystic leaders, dreamers, servants and creators. If you’re “ministry conferenced” out or tired of being sold a specific model, come connect with people who believe that the Spirit of God wants to unleash new expressions in new contexts with unique teams.

peace
Steve Norman
Genesis: The Church
Detroit

]]> By: Drew Hage http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-20 Drew Hage Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:58:40 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-20 Our team has been to Origins each of the past three years and are eagerly anticipating participating again this year. Simply put, Origins is the best conference for church and ministry leaders anywhere. Prepare to hear God's voice, see His face, and be challenged by His love for a lost and broken world! Drew Hage Genesis the Church Detroit, Michigan Our team has been to Origins each of the past three years and are eagerly anticipating participating again this year. Simply put, Origins is the best conference for church and ministry leaders anywhere. Prepare to hear God’s voice, see His face, and be challenged by His love for a lost and broken world!

Drew Hage
Genesis the Church
Detroit, Michigan

]]> By: Jason Lohse http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-19 Jason Lohse Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:34:36 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-19 I have been blessed to be a part of several Origins events over the past two years. God has challenged me through the ministry of Alex and Erwin. It is essential for leaders to experience environments that help unlock the box instead of keeping you in one. You will receive valuable spiritual encouragement as well as practical direction for specific areas of ministry. Best of all, you will have the opportunity to catch a great vision for being on mission along with hundreds of other hungry Kingdom people. During one of the closing sessions, we had a prayer time over the pastors and church planters in attendance. As each pastor and church planter shouted out their city, the Holy Spirit began to fall on us. We were all overwhelmed by the awesome privilege of being on mission with God to see His Kingdom advance. I encourage you to attend Origins and have an open heart. You know what God can do if you let him. I have been blessed to be a part of several Origins events over the past two years. God has challenged me through the ministry of Alex and Erwin. It is essential for leaders to experience environments that help unlock the box instead of keeping you in one. You will receive valuable spiritual encouragement as well as practical direction for specific areas of ministry. Best of all, you will have the opportunity to catch a great vision for being on mission along with hundreds of other hungry Kingdom people.

During one of the closing sessions, we had a prayer time over the pastors and church planters in attendance. As each pastor and church planter shouted out their city, the Holy Spirit began to fall on us. We were all overwhelmed by the awesome privilege of being on mission with God to see His Kingdom advance.

I encourage you to attend Origins and have an open heart. You know what God can do if you let him.

]]> By: Nicolas Nelson http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-18 Nicolas Nelson Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:06:07 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-18 whoa. I said all that from memory, without going to the ORIGINS website... then I remembered, ORIGINS was where I discovered that book! For some reason, those two life-changing things had become disconnected from one another in my mind, as if two such precious things simply had to occupy their own worlds. The book <i>An Unstoppable Force </i>ought to be a primary textbook for all church planters and pastors. I have served on three churchplanting teams, pastored, and served on an elder board, and my leadership experience divides into "before reading it" and "after reading it": • before I had read that book, I had been groping my way toward what it said. I think I would have mostly gotten there by myself... in my seventies. I have wept, thinking how much might have been different had I read the book sooner. • after I read that book, I had no more excuses. All my failures in ministry were mine alone. I knew better now. But so thankful to have the "power tools"-- metaphors, plugged into Scripture and Spirit-- necessary to do, and to be, all that God imagines for me. whoa.
I said all that from memory, without going to the ORIGINS website… then I remembered, ORIGINS was where I discovered that book! For some reason, those two life-changing things had become disconnected from one another in my mind, as if two such precious things simply had to occupy their own worlds.

The book An Unstoppable Force ought to be a primary textbook for all church planters and pastors. I have served on three churchplanting teams, pastored, and served on an elder board, and my leadership experience divides into “before reading it” and “after reading it”:

• before I had read that book, I had been groping my way toward what it said. I think I would have mostly gotten there by myself… in my seventies. I have wept, thinking how much might have been different had I read the book sooner.

• after I read that book, I had no more excuses. All my failures in ministry were mine alone. I knew better now. But so thankful to have the “power tools”– metaphors, plugged into Scripture and Spirit– necessary to do, and to be, all that God imagines for me.

]]> By: Nicolas Nelson http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-17 Nicolas Nelson Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:49:34 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-17 I've only attended one ORIGINS, back in 2001, and for some reason I left thinking it would never happen again. It couldn't. It was a Jacobs' Ladder experience, one that leaves you awake but afire to live the dream you just had... the sort of experience after which all you can do is make a pile of rocks and stutter something incoherent like "surely God is on this planet [in a way I never grasped before] and I did not know it!" Those who weren't in the dream don't know what you mean. Until you begin to live that holy dream along with them, daily. JohnEdgar said it well: ORIGINS is an "un-conference". As he says, there is no model or method of ministry being "sold" to you. It's more of an experience, an unfolding, a freeing and lifebreathing sort of thing. For me, ORIGINS introduced me to the power of metaphor and the freedom to wield it: invited me to go back to my origins, this world's origins, and rummage about there for the language and passion and power that are needed here and now in order to create the future. Create it, not react to it or analyze it to death. For you, I don't know what will happen at ORIGINS. It's a nexus between heaven and earth. (So are you, if you are in Christ but not yet with Him in paradise.) It's a setting in which God can speak to you, crush you, heal you, empower you, or ...I don't know, it's almost whatever you and He make of it. One of the best parts of ORIGINS is the other people you meet there. So many who know and behave as if they are nexii between heaven and earth-- a humbling, terrifying, giddy knowledge. ORIGINS puts lots of such people in close proximity. They achieve critical mass, inject awesome worship, draw out the control rods of fear and self, and... stand back! Something will be destroyed in the reaction. I hope it will be me, this year. And I hope it will be you. I’ve only attended one ORIGINS, back in 2001, and for some reason I left thinking it would never happen again. It couldn’t. It was a Jacobs’ Ladder experience, one that leaves you awake but afire to live the dream you just had… the sort of experience after which all you can do is make a pile of rocks and stutter something incoherent like “surely God is on this planet [in a way I never grasped before] and I did not know it!” Those who weren’t in the dream don’t know what you mean. Until you begin to live that holy dream along with them, daily.

JohnEdgar said it well: ORIGINS is an “un-conference”. As he says, there is no model or method of ministry being “sold” to you. It’s more of an experience, an unfolding, a freeing and lifebreathing sort of thing.

For me, ORIGINS introduced me to the power of metaphor and the freedom to wield it: invited me to go back to my origins, this world’s origins, and rummage about there for the language and passion and power that are needed here and now in order to create the future. Create it, not react to it or analyze it to death.

For you, I don’t know what will happen at ORIGINS. It’s a nexus between heaven and earth. (So are you, if you are in Christ but not yet with Him in paradise.) It’s a setting in which God can speak to you, crush you, heal you, empower you, or …I don’t know, it’s almost whatever you and He make of it.

One of the best parts of ORIGINS is the other people you meet there. So many who know and behave as if they are nexii between heaven and earth– a humbling, terrifying, giddy knowledge. ORIGINS puts lots of such people in close proximity. They achieve critical mass, inject awesome worship, draw out the control rods of fear and self, and… stand back! Something will be destroyed in the reaction.

I hope it will be me, this year.

And I hope it will be you.

]]> By: johnedgar http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-16 johnedgar Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:52:55 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-16 I recently was telling a new friend about Origins. I have participated at Origins the last 2 years as well as three of the regional Origins. All of these experiences have moved me closer towards the heart of God! I brought a group of people last year and they found the experience to be life-changing. I plan on bringing a group this year as well! With the hundreds of conferences to choose from - Origins stands alone. It is really the 'Un-conference.' At Origins you will not find a 'model.' You will not find a 'method.' You will experience the leadership gathering of a transformational community. It is a catalyst for the missional movement of God that has been re-ignited in the Church. This is far more than a groovy, catchy phrase. Mosaic has become famous for stating 'The Church is not here to meet our needs. We are the Church and we are here to meet the needs of the world.' What I have found at Origins is an environment that facilitates discovery, development, and deployment. In short Origins invites you on a journey that is moving forward to recapture humanity as God intended. It is an adventure inviting you to find your future in the beginning. It is a path into the mystic. It is almost like going to the World Cup! I recently was telling a new friend about Origins. I have participated at Origins the last 2 years as well as three of the regional Origins. All of these experiences have moved me closer towards the heart of God! I brought a group of people last year and they found the experience to be life-changing. I plan on bringing a group this year as well! With the hundreds of conferences to choose from - Origins stands alone. It is really the ‘Un-conference.’ At Origins you will not find a ‘model.’ You will not find a ‘method.’ You will experience the leadership gathering of a transformational community. It is a catalyst for the missional movement of God that has been re-ignited in the Church. This is far more than a groovy, catchy phrase. Mosaic has become famous for stating ‘The Church is not here to meet our needs. We are the Church and we are here to meet the needs of the world.’ What I have found at Origins is an environment that facilitates discovery, development, and deployment. In short Origins invites you on a journey that is moving forward to recapture humanity as God intended. It is an adventure inviting you to find your future in the beginning. It is a path into the mystic. It is almost like going to the World Cup!

]]> By: Ted http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-15 Ted Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:43:31 +0000 http://origins.voxtropolis.com/2006/02/24/the-origins-experience-2006/#comment-15 I went to Origins in 2004 and it was an incredible challenge. It left a deep impression on me and my ministry hasn't been the same. The experience is full of passion and a call to faith, a kick-in-the-pants for me. I'm bringing members of our lead team out to the conference this year. It's such an encouragement to see a missional church in action and to be in conversation with other leaders! I went to Origins in 2004 and it was an incredible challenge. It left a deep impression on me and my ministry hasn’t been the same. The experience is full of passion and a call to faith, a kick-in-the-pants for me. I’m bringing members of our lead team out to the conference this year. It’s such an encouragement to see a missional church in action and to be in conversation with other leaders!

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