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This two-part series provides a general understanding of the concepts, methods, and technologies underpinning artificial intelligence (AI), including recent innovations that have enabled entirely new capabilities. We provide examples of exciting applications as well as discuss the limitations and potential misuse of AI. A key objective is to equip ministry leaders to (a) harness new AI applications fully and appropriately and (b) bring a Christian perspective to discussions about the use of AI and its impacts on our communities and society at large.

Perhaps the greatest need facing the church in Europe today is the need for more leaders. Quality leaders emerge rather than arrive. Training in a classroom context can be a significant component in the development of a leader. However, it is not enough on its own; something more relational is required. Can we learn from New Testament models of ministry development? Can we shape a culture where the multiplication of ministry occurs naturally?

The cultural temperature is rising, and new issues – like Identity Politics, Critical Race Theory, Cancel Culture, and most recently Christian Nationalism – provoke heated debates and often create new lines of conflict. Is there a way we, as Evangelicals, can deal with these issues with grace and wisdom and find the connection to the Gospel? This talk addresses the big picture of how to respond to controversial issues and explains a test case with Christian Nationalism.
 

Tragically, several high-profile Christian leaders have fallen away from the faith in the last year. Why? How does someone go from being faithful to being faithless? C.S. Lewis wrote, 'Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.' How does this happen? This workshop addresses: Why do leaders fall away? How can we guard against falling away? And how should we treat those who fall away?

Without knowing it, during a typical day, we all encounter many of the most important natural scientists from history. Surprisingly, the Christian faith meant something personal to many of them, as illustrated by their own words in this talk. Among them is Galileo about whose personal faith we don’t know much. But a persistent myth is that he had proven that the Earth revolves around the sun. Galileo himself knew very well that he had not. Scientifically Tycho Brahe's geoheliocentric model was held to be the correct one long after Galileo had passed away.

Relationships are notoriously hard to navigate for ministry leaders. Isolation can lead to burnout and ungodliness. Enmeshed relationships can lead to disappointment or manipulation. Together, we will learn from Paul and his relationship with the Thessalonian church and see how he pursues intimacy and mutuality with wisdom and grace.