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Total Church Conference – 2.0

Last year I attended the first Total Church Conference in San Diego. It was excellent content. This year, Total Church 2.0 builds on the first conference with a robust Jesus emphasis. Looks like a stimulating conference, with talkback interaction for community processing.
Tuesday, November 17 through Thursday, November 19, 2009
Read more here. Registration opens next week. […]

Drew Goodmanson shares a good story about how a couple made a gospel-centered decision about moving in community. A great example for all of us. An excerpt:
Recently, in our missional community we have had two families begin the process of searching for a home. Both were considering a location farther away from the community where […]

ALL Total Church Audio is up

All Total Church Conference Audio is up
      

Notes from Total Church Conference

I am posting some notes and reflections from the Total Church conference here.

Total Church Conference

Friend and fellow church planter, Jacob Vanhorn, has nicely summarized the details of our upcoming trip to the Total Church conference. He lists the session and break-out topics.
He also notes that Matt Chandler is now blogging.

Total Church Releases in U.S.

Quite a few readers were interested in my series of posts on Total Church, a book about gospel-centered community written by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis in the U.K. Total Church has been picked up by ReLIT, a publishing branch of Crossway Books and will be released in the U.S. in September. See info here. […]

Author of Total Church has a new book

Tim Chester, perhaps best known in the U.S. for his book Total Church (forthcoming in U.S. by Crossway), is releasing a new book in the U.K. called You Can Change. You can Change is endorsed by Tim Keller and looks promising for equipping gospel-centered sanctification.
Here are the table of contents:
1.   What would you like to […]

Tim Chester on Gospel Change

If you read or still want to read Total Church by Tim Chester, get excited about his next book Gospel Change (endorsed by Tim Keller). See a promo video here. See my posts on Total Church here.

Tim Chester on Busyness

Tim Chester is co-author of Total Church:

Have you ever been irritated because there was a queue at the supermarket till?
Do you regularly work thirty minutes a day longer than your contracted hours?
Do you check work emails and phone messages at home?
Has anyone ever said to you: ‘I didn’t want to trouble you because I know […]

Total Church on the Web

A number of readers responded enthusiastically to my posts on the UK published book Total Church. Steve Timmis and co have now released an entire website devoted to Total Church.