A Church for Your City:
Reclaiming the Jesus Brand

 

Saturday-Sunday, March 8-9, 2008

Many people on the outside of faith looking in equate Christianity with a narrow-minded moralism; they think the church has blindly accepted a particular political persuasion; they assume that to be follower of Jesus is to adopt a suspicious attitude toward science and a culture war mentality in general. This hasn't been good for the gospel; its amounts to a trademark infringement on the Jesus brand.

People who would otherwise be drawn to Jesus are having a hard time finding him buried in the field of contemporary religion. It's time for that to change. It's time we became good news for the world again.

Charles Park is on a mission from God to bring the gospel of Jesus through a church planted in the heart of a city that leans Democratic, enjoys the New York Times, values diversity and is frightened by the language and tactics of the culture wars. He believes Vineyard churches and others like them can learn to fruitfully bear witness to the kingdom of God in places like this. But it's going to take discernment, creativity, passion for God and dependence on the Spirit to restore the Jesus brand. The same old same old won't do.

Perhaps you live in a community that needs more churches that don't live up to the usual expectations. You want to be part of the solution, raising up a church in your city for the people you love. Including yourself, perhaps?

Join us for a weekend with Charles Park. To hear his story and the story of the gospel breaking into the City he loves. To receive an impartation of wisdom and the power of the Spirit toward that end in the community you love.

 

Conference Audio

 

Charles Park
Senior Pastor, The River (New York)

Charles and Caroline Park moved to New York in June 2004 to start The River. Charles studied (a little too much when he was young), earning a PhD in Economics at M.I.T. After striving hard to achieve the American Dream, he found getting tangled up with the story of God made life much more interesting and unpredictable. Of all the great heroes of Western Literature, he most identifies with Forrest Gump. "Life is like a box of chocolates." He and Caroline live in Manhattan with their three children, Clara, Ariel and Cale

 

 

 

 


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