ROUND 2 — MONDAY 3:30-4:30PM
Gospel-Shaped Planting Pipelines for Church Vitality
As we confront the decline and the pressures of the church in North America, there is an emerging opportunity to reimagine how to bring a renewed vitality to church planting. Creating gospel-shaped pipelines to develop future leaders must begin now. This microevent will address the need for such pipelines and the mechanisms needed to bring new health to church planting and established churches.
Irwyn Ince
Irwyn L. Ince serves as Mission to North America Coordinator. He and his wife, Kim, have been married 31 years, have four children and two granddaughters. He transitioned to ministry after a career in engineering. After graduation from Reformed Theological Seminary, Dr. Ince helped plant City of Hope in 2006. In 2016, he received his DMin degree from Covenant Theological Seminary. He’s the author of The Beautiful Community: Unity Diversity and the Church at Its Best.
Round 1 — Living in Gospel Exile (IVP)
Round 2 — Gospel-Shaped Planting Pipelines for Church Vitality (Covenant Theological Seminary and Mission to North America of the PCA)
Robert Kim
Robert Kim is a second-generation Korean-American who serves as associate professor of applied theology and church planting and the Philip and Rebecca Douglass Chair of Church Planting and Christian Formation at Covenant Theological Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri. Prior to teaching at Covenant, Robert served for thirteen years as a church planter, pastor, and church planting network director in Philadelphia.
Round 2 — Gospel-Shaped Planting Pipelines for Church Vitality (Covenant Theological Seminary and Mission to North America of the PCA)
Chris Vogel
Chris Vogel is the Church Planting and Vitality Coordinator for MNA (Mission to North America, PCA), having previously served MNA as the Ecosystem Development Director. He was the Director of NXTGEN Pastors for five years and the director of The On Wisconsin Network for six. He planted a church in Waukesha, Wisconsin, serving there for 26 years until stepping down in 2018 to devote full-time to pastoral formation and renewal.
Round 2 — Gospel-Shaped Planting Pipelines for Church Vitality (Covenant Theological Seminary and Mission to North America of the PCA)
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ROUND 4 — TUESDAY 3:30-4:30PM
Narcissism Is Toxic for Pastors. But So Is Lack of Confidence.
While the church is rightly alarmed at pastors who devastate the church by bullying, immorality, and narcissism, many leave the ministry when their church experience crushes them. Narcissism is a great evil, but pastors also need confidence and resilience to endure disapproval, opposition, foot-dragging, sabotage, and whisper campaigns.
Dan Doriani
Dan Doriani is Professor of Biblical Theology at Covenant Theological Seminary and the founder and president of The Center for Faith and Work, St. Louis. Drawing on his five years leading small churches and twelve years leading large churches, he has written eighteen books on biblical interpretation and biblical ethics as well as six New Testament commentaries, and two books on work.
Round 4 — Narcissism Is Toxic for Pastors. But So Is Lack of Confidence. (Covenant Theological Seminary)