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Connected Leadership for Experienced Leaders: On Being Human

21 May 2023 | Peter Saunders

What does it mean to be fully human? This talk looks into the biblical perspective of the Imago Dei, contrasting it with the surrounding world view. We explore how distinctive leadership is exercised under Christ and in community.

What is a Human? Different Views About Brains, Minds and Souls

21 May 2023 | Sharon Dirckx

Human identity is a topic for which many different kinds of answers are offered, from different spheres. What exactly are we? Are we merely advanced apes? Are we just machines? Do we have a soul? Some neuroscientists and philosophers hold the view that the brain drives everything about us. All of our thoughts, decisions, memories, even religious beliefs are traceable to the chemical and electrical activity of our brains. What shall we make of this view? What about the mind and soul?

A Christian Perspective on Environmental Care

23 May 2023 | Daniel Vedder

The question of how humans should relate to the environment is one of the pressing issues of our generation. Climate change and biodiversity loss regularly make the headlines, and spark heated debates across society. As Christians, we need to develop a biblical understanding of creation, both to find out how we should personally respond to environmental crises, but also to be able to engage with the questions of people around us.

Confronting the Lies of Global Youth Culture

20 May 2023 | Luke Greenwood

There are 7 common ideas in secular culture that represent barriers for people to know Jesus today. This talk unpacks how we can communicate the gospel to people who believe these ideas as well as see how the gospel transforms our own perspectives on life, identity, relationships, community and God.

Note that this Pre-Forum talk includes participants from the 2023-2024 Reaching Secular Youth Culture YRM. More information about YRMs can be found at https://www.foclinitiatives.org/yrm.

This is part two of a two-part video.

7 Lies of the Global Youth Culture

20 May 2023 | Luke Greenwood

There are 7 common ideas in secular culture that represent barriers for people to know Jesus today. This talk unpacks how we can communicate the gospel to people who believe these ideas as well as see how the gospel transforms our own perspectives on life, identity, relationships, community and God.

Note that this Pre-Forum talk will include participants from the 2023-2024 Reaching Secular Youth Culture YRM. More information about YRMs can be found at https://www.foclinitiatives.org/yrm.

Why Discipleship Is Crucial: The Biblical Vision of How We Change

23 May 2023 | Zefjan Nikolla

Why is it that so many Christians are not spiritually mature? What does a faithful disciple look like according to Scripture? What are some of the most common challenges to discipleship in our lives and ministries? This talk gives a practical strategy for how to grow to maturity in Christ and help others do the same.

 

How to Communicate the Christian Worldview in the Public Square

22 May 2023 | Espen Ottosen

For about twenty years Espen Ottosen has been participating regularly in debates in the secular/general media in Norway. In a country like Norway, which is very secularized, standing up for a Christian perspective on same-sex marriage, biotechnical issues, and questions related to sex and gender, is a big challenge. In this talk, Ottosen shares the lessons he’s learned on how to communicate to people in the public square with little knowledge and/or many prejudices about classical Christian belief.

Preparing for Fruitfulness: Essential Lessons in Leading Effectively

21 May 2023 | Scott Anderson

Your church or organisation can have the most amazing legacy or vision for the future and still be bogged down by a system that works against its mission. Its people can navigate from highest peaks to lowest valleys almost overnight. Your team can be exposed to changes that begin to splinter it and limit its future.

Responsive Leadership for Emerging Leaders: Leading Fully Human People

23 May 2023 | Jen Charteris

How can we apply the biblical principles of “being fully human” to teams and organisations? In this talk, we examine how to exercise Godly leadership in circumstances that are not of our choosing or clearly out of our control, looking at both crisis and complexity angles. How can our strategies, culture, structures, and systems reflect the worth and finitude of the people we lead and the people that our organisations serve?

Answering the Sexual Revolution

23 May 2023 | Stefan Gustavsson

Since the 1960s, the sexual revolution has swept the Western world and radically changed the way people think about sex and how they choose to live sexually. Previous assumptions about the importance of connecting sex with love and marriage, of excluding same-sex romantic relationships as well as polygamous or polyamorous relationships are now abandoned. How can we as Christian dialogue with and give an answer to the challenge posed by the sexual revolution?

Discipling and Developing the Next Generation of Leaders

23 May 2023 | Kristy Williams

How we raise a future generation of disciple-making leaders is of urgent importance for the church in Europe today. Through this talk, we consider important principles for helping young people grow towards spiritual maturity as well as explore helpful practices for empowering young leaders.