Many are asking the question how does our Sunday worship connect to our Monday-Friday worlds. In this lecture Chris will reflect theologically upon the significance of the people of God in the public square.  Working within a 21st century context Chris will help us see the necessity and opportunity the Church has in being in the Marketplace.
Join us Thursday January 26th from 12pm-2pm at Redemption Arcadia.

What? — Surge Seminar
Who? — Chris Wright (bio below)
Topic? — Saints in the Marketplace: the people of God in the public square
When? — Thursday, Jan 26th
Time? — 12pm-2pm
Where? — Redemption Church Arcadia (map here)

To reserve your place RSVP with all the names of those attending to tylerjohnson@redemptionaz.com

Biography

The Rev. Dr. Christopher J. H. Wright (Chris to his friends!) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1947. His parents were missionaries in Brazil, though Chris as the youngest son was born after they came back at the end of the Second World War. He grew up in Belfast and was nurtured as an Irish Presbyterian. He studied classics at Cambridge in the 1960s, and then started his career as a high-school teacher in Grosvenor High School, Belfast. In the 1970s he studied for his doctorate in Cambridge, England, in the field of Old Testament economic ethics; his book from this work was published as God’s People in God’s Land(Eerdmans and Paternoster). He was ordained in the Anglican Church of England in 1977 and served as an assistant pastor in the Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Tonbridge, Kent, England.

In 1983 he moved to India with his wife, Liz, and four children to teach atUnion Biblical Seminary (UBS) in Pune for five years. At this time he and Liz were mission partners with Crosslinks, an evangelical Anglican mission agency. While at UBS he taught a variety of Old Testament courses at B.D. and M.Th. levels. In 1988 he returned to the U.K. as academic dean at All Nations Christian College, an international training centre for crosscultural mission. He was appointed principal there in September 1993 and held that post for eight years. In September 2001 Chris was appointed to his present role as the international director of the Langham Partnership International. Chris was Chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005 – 2011, and Chair of the Statement Working Group at the Third Lausanne Congress, 2010, which produced The Cape Town Commitment. He is also Chair of the Theological Resource Team for Tearfund (UK).

Chris and his wife, Liz, belong to All Souls Church, Langham Place, where Chris enjoys preaching from time to time as a member of the ministry team. This is also the church, of course, where LPI’s founder, John Stott, is rector emeritus.

Chris, who enjoys running, birding and watching rugby football, has a passion to bring to life the relevance of the Old Testament to Christian mission and ethics. He has written several books mostly on that area. He loves preaching and teaching the Bible, which he does now mostly through the Langham Preaching seminars in different parts of the world.When not traveling around the world for this ministry, and giving international leadership to LPI, Chris gives about three months of each year to his continuing writing projects.

Chris and Liz live in London and have four adult children and a growing number of grandchildren.

• Church of the Cross - Peoria, AZ
• Ekklesia - Gilbert, AZ
• Imago Dei - Phoenix, AZ
• Kineo - Phoenix, AZ
• Life Connection Church - Phoenix, AZ
• Missio Dei Communities - Tempe, AZ
• Mosaic - Peoria, AZ
• New Valley Church - Chandler, AZ
• Old Town Bible -Scottsdale, AZ
• Roosevelt Community Church - Phoenix, AZ
• Redemption Church - Phoenix, AZ
• Revolution - Tucson, AZ

Are you asking questions about discipleship? What is it exactly? How do we effectively do it in our churches?

January 11th, we will have our 2012 kickoff Surge Lunch and we are addressing the topic of DISCIPLESHIP. Everyone agrees the mission of the church is to make disciples but many disagree as to what that means and how we should do it. So we figured starting off 2012 would be a great way to start the conversation here in Phoenix.

Our speaker is Dr. Kennon Vaughan -  Kennon is the Founder and Executive Director of Downline Ministries. Downline exists for one purpose, to train others and churches to make disciples. It sounds pretty simple but if you are a ministry leader you know we need more intentionality and clarity in how we make disciples.

Join us… Wednesday from 11:30am-1:30pm at Redemption Arcadia. We will be providing lunch so please RSVP for yourself and all those who will come with you ASAP.  RSVP to Patti at pattizerr@redemptionaz.com.

What? — 2012 Kickoff Surge Lunch

Topic? — Discipleship: The what’s, how’s, and who’s

Who? — Dr. Kennon Vaughan – Founder and Executive Director of Downline Ministries

When? — Wednesday January 11th

Time? — 11:30am-1:30pm

Where? — Redemption Arcadia: 4141 East Thomas Road, Phoenix AZ.

 

That is what “Surge” is.  It is an attempt to Surge the Valley with transformational leaders committed to living out the mission of God and committed to their local church.

Laboring for a Surge in Phoenix,

Tyler Johnson on behalf of the Surge Leadership Team

Kind words form our friends:

I am thankful for the leaders of Surge and their heart to thoroughly equip leaders, pastors and planters for the sake of the Gospel work in the greater Phoneix area. It’s a humble privilege for me to be able to serve alongside these men in this work as a guest equipper.”

-Jeff Vanderstelt

Surge is the best leadership training program I have seen. I appreciate its combination of biblical faithfulness, theological rigor and ecclesial relevance. I wish we had a Surge program in Vancouver to train leaders for our churches.

-Dr. Michael Goheen

Surge is a valuable training resource. Surge is a well balanced combination of “classroom and laboratory” training. Participants are exposed the world’s best thinkers and at the same time they benefit from interactive discussion with their peers. The Surge is an effective tool for preparing faithful men.

– Tom Shrader

Dr. Larry Osborne
Larry Osborne has served as a Senior Pastor and Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church since 1980. He has helped oversee the growth of the church from a fledgling group of 128 meeting in a rented school, to a multi-site ministry that reaches nearly 7,000 in weekend attendance.
Larry is also an author and a nationally recognized trainer of pastors. His books include STICKY CHURCH: Slamming the Back Door Shut, 10 DUMB THINGS SMART CHRISTIANS BELIEVE, SPIRITUALITY FOR THE REST OF US and THE UNITY FACTOR: Developing A Healthy Leadership Team. He travels extensively speaking at conferences and mentoring pastors and church planters across the country. His latest book, STICKY TEAMS, was released by Zondervan in April 2010.
In addition to his work as a pastor and writer, Larry also serves as an adjunct professor in the doctoral program at Trinity Evangelical Seminary and as president of the North Coast Training Network – an arm of North Coast Church dedicated to helping pastors across the country maximize their ministry.
North Coast Church has been recognized as one of the ten most influential churches in America as well as one of the most innovative. Pioneers in the use of Video Worship Venues, North Coast launched the first ever Video Venue in 1998, starting what is now known in ministry circles as the “Multi-Site Movement.” Each weekend, North Coast offers over 20 different worship options on multiple campuses – each targeted at a specific demographic or geographic audience.
North Coast Church’s Sermon-Based Small Groups take the weekend sermon and dig deeper into its application with a participation rate of 80% of the weekend adult attendance. It’s a model that has spread across the nation as churches discover its power to both disciple and slam the back door shut.
The church also has an extensive community outreach, averaging nearly two service projects a day throughout the year. In 2007 and 2008, they closed the doors for the largest weekend of service ever held by a single church. During a 48 hour span, over 5,000 members from North Coast Church fanned across the community to complete nearly 100 projects and over $1,000,000 in finished work.
Larry holds both a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctorate from Talbot Theological Seminary. He and his wife Nancy live in Oceanside. They have three grown children.

Bob Moffitt is president of the Harvest Foundation and cofounder of the Disciple Nations Alliance. For over thirty years he has developed and directed Christian organizations designed to encourage and enable Christians to demonstrate God’s love, especially to broken people and their communities. He writes and teaches curricula designed to enable lay Christians to live out their faith in practical terms, particularly in the context of their local churches. He and his wife, Judy, live in Phoenix, Arizona.

Bob’s Books -
God’s Unshakable Kingdom
The Worldview of the Kingdom of God
God’s Remarkable Plan for the Nations

Bob spoke at our Surge lunch on April 6th.  We have attached a PDF of Bob’s notes, if you would like to download, Click Here.

Surge Network is excited to partner with Acts 29 to bring Phoenix it’s first boot camp.  Acts 29 Boot Camps are church planting conferences open to the public that focus on the vision of church planting, calling of the planter, mandate to multiply churches and the theological foundation for gospel-centered church planting. The Phoenix Boot Camp will be hosted by Praxis Church in Phoenix, AZ

Boot Camp Location:

Praxis Church
2150 E. Southern Ave. Tempe, AZ 85282
Phoenix, AZ

Speakers:

- Wayne Grudem – “Theology and the Surge”
- Darrin Patrick – “Leadership and the Surge”
- Jeff Vanderstelt – “The Gospel and the Surge”
- Matt Carter – “Mission and the Surge”
- Scott Thomas – “Networks and the Surge”
- Justin Anderson – “Leadership Development/Preaching and the Surge”
- David Kinnaman – “The Future and the Surge”

Cost:  $149

For registration and more information, click here.