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Turning point of crisis – Hopeful Renewal video #1
‘Crisis’, as a word, can be more hopeful than its modern meaning necessarily suggests, Mark Sayers notes in his first talk from the Hopeful Renewal conference recently hosted by the Church of Ireland’s Pioneer Ministry team.
Mark explores its origins in a phrase for a turning point – krisis in Greek – and points to the picture of the Holy Spirit hovering above the waters in Genesis 1 just before Creation. Our world is “infused with patterns of recovery” and this renewal is the constant pattern of how the Holy Spirit “works in a community to contradict the default mode of the human heart – cynicism, decline, melancholy.”
He also discusses some of the tentative signs of renewal around the world, including the high uptake for the Alpha Course and young men coming to church for the first time.
Join us again tomorrow evening to consider the ‘platform mentality’ which is so much a part of our contemporary culture.
If you would like to find out more about Pioneer Ministry and how you can be part of praying for and being more involved, please visit the Pioneer Ministry website – www.pioneerministry.org - or like and follow us on Facebook @pioneerministry.coi and Instagram @pioneerministrycoi
For a playlist of each of the five talks from the conference, click here.
Pioneer Ministry is an initiative of the Church of Ireland to reach those with little or no connection to church. Emerging from within to encourage, support and release a movement that has the capacity to reach people in new places and in different ways.
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