This will be the first of many posts in the next few months about the 2006 Tulsa Workshop. The speaker list and schedule are starting to come together. Each evening we’re going to have tag-team keynote speakers, one from Churches of Christ and one from independent Christian Churches. This is one way we’re participating in the larger movement of reconciliation that is taking place between our two tribes.
Since 1906, Churches of Christ and Christian Churches have been officially recognized as two distinct religious groups. This is a shame considering that both groups were birthed out of a unity movement. One hundred years later, there are a number of folks in both groups that are saying that what happened one hundred years ago should have never occurred. We shouldn’t have let our differences of opinion and practice divide us. In 2006, there will be a number of events like the Tulsa Workshop and the NACC where foks from both tribes will get together and declare that we are still part of the same family.
For all my non-Church of Christ/Christian Church readers, please indulge me as I talk about all of this family business and celebrate with me that two groups of Christians who were once divided are starting to come back together. That’s a good thing not only for our two tribes but for the larger Kingdom.
On Thursday night, Chuck Booher and Jeff Walling will speak. On Friday it will be Max Lucado and Bob Russell. On Saturday, Allan Dunbar and Marvin Phillips will rock the house.
If you have any questions about the Workshop, what we’re planning to do, ways you can help spread the word, etc. leave a comment here or email me at wadehodgesATgmail.com. You can also find more info over at www.tulsaworkshop.org. There’s not much going on there now, but it will be hopping before long.
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons
Dude, you are helping to de-stupidify our people. FOr that, I thank you.
Much has been/will be said of this. While I celebrate this small though very appropriate move, I pray it is the beginning of the entire body of Christ coming together once and for all.
De-stupify Faj? Great word!! You must be an MFI guy…
3 nights at a Tulsa hotel to attend the workshop: $240.00
3 days of eating at Tulsa restaurants: $300.00
3 days of buying t-shirts, books, trinkets, etc.: $150.00
3 days of my kids climbing that wall thingy: $30.00
3 days of reconciliation with our “Christian” brothers: priceless!!
Walling, Max, Marvin in the evenings!!!!! The workshop has needed that for a long time. Good call!! Keep the big hitters coming in the evenings. These other guys sound great, too! Don’t know a whole lot about them, but I am excited!
Sound very cool.
Looks good Wade. A small step in the right direction!
Wade,
If Alan Dunbar tells the story about him setting half a chuch camp on fire during an illustration, will you send me the audio?
I remember sitting next to you and Lloyd hearing him speak at some conference near Renton what feels like decades ago. I remember the story’s punchline…
“My clothes were on fire…
The trees were on fire…
The LAKE was on fire!!!!”
Quite the exaggerated story, but his storytelling ability made you WANT to believe it.
Sam
Sam–Dunbar’s story is I think the funniest preacher story I’ve ever heard. I made his participation on the program contingent on him telling that story.
Sweet. Looks like another great line-up.
Praise the Lord, dude… I was hoping to see a line-up like this. Of course, I’m only loosely associated with either side of “the movement” anymore, but I still have a lot of interest in what happens, and most of my dearest friends are still in “the movement”.
Hopefully, I’ll be doing well enough in my new “tent-making” profession of insurance sales to get away for a few days and check it out. It should be a great one this year.
Wade,
I need an audio copy of that when it’s available. Please point me to the right session, and I’ll order it. Anyone who speaks in public should hear that story and learn from it. It’s incredible.
Sam
Ok, now I’m coming just for “the story”. Can it really be that good???
Wade:
I’d like some info on how to spread the word and promote this. Wish I had known about it sooner, probably won’t be able to attend, but I’d like to let others know.
-Clarke
Man! I am so glad there is another person named ‘Wade’ among us who talks about this stuff occasionally. Thanks…
Wade