We spent the whole day in the leadership conference at the Holy Trinity Brompton. Nicky Gumbel first spoke about the leadership example of Jesus. Nicky had some very good points there. In the afternoon there were two ‘leadership labs’. First I participated in a lab called ‘Building churches and planting churches’. Maybe not very relevant to me now but still very interesting. The second lab was about pastorates, groups of around 25-30 people. At night Nicky Gumbel interviewed bishop Sandy Miller, the former leader of HTB.
After all this all 10 of us went to a restaurant to share how everyone liked the day and what is there for us to learn.
HTB seems to be more focused on the Holy Spirit and the works of the Spirit than what’s typical in Finland. Communion doesn’t play a central role – actually no-one has even mentioned it in their talks and the Sunday ‘service’ didn’t include communion. But still we’re all brothers and sisters in Christ.
Four of us still decided to walk a bit around, all the way to the Thames. We were tired already before we left, but decided to do it, after all we came all the way to London. The program we’ve had has been very intense with not much time just to walk around and see places so this was the opportunity we had to use. Let’s see how tired we’re in the last day of the conference.
Lessons Learned
Actually there’s a lot but it’s too late already.. I might add something later.
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