It’s Tuesday night at Exponential. I flew in on Sunday afternoon and had a bit of time to connect with our Mosaix team for a few last minute details. Yesterday afternoon we kicked off our Pre-conference Intensive on Planting and Building Healthy Multi-Ethnic churches. Right from the gate we shared the Biblical Mandate for Multi-Ethnic churches (led by Mark DeYmaz) a session on the Sociological perspective of the Multi-ethnic church (led by George Yancey) and the Core Commitments of a Multi-Ethnic church (led by Mark) . Though I have heard these talks several times before, I am always challenged of the need and the call of Christ for His church to be ONE.
This morning George spent some time talking about Assessment tools to evaluate where you are in this entire process and then we heard a great presentation from Ed Lee on the Nuances of the M/E church.  Ed’s presentation was especially challenging as he caused us to think through just where we are at Westbrook. What model or series of models might we fit into?  These two talks coupled together will allow a church, seeking to be M/E in their methodology, to truly evaluate where they are in this process and where they want to be.
The main conference started this afternoon. Some great worship… a little Ed Stetzer… and a lot of Andy Stanley. It’s great to see Mosaix Global Network climbing the ranks in the church planting movement. Kudos to George, Mark and Jim! To top it all of, a bunch of my staff guys from Westbrook are down here with me taking this all in. God is good!