I (Pastor Mike) was in Scottsdale, AZ last week as part of a 23 congregation Lilly Grant Project which is unique in size and format. It is called “The Relevance to Resonance” and lasts three years.
Premise:
With time speeding up and change speeding up creating rising mental health problems, social alienation and hyper individualism and the extinction of a transcendent God - how can a congregation curate a life at the speed of soul?
How does a person or congregation live a re-defined good life where awe is experienced, the willingness to suffer for another is over against the prevalent hyper individualism, where dis-satisfaction is not numbed but instead status quo is actively challenged and finally, people are connected to congregation that sees God in each other - where transcendence is waited for and experienced, storied and gratefully named.
