{"id":331,"date":"2008-04-11T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2013-06-27T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:35:41","slug":"2008-founders-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"2008 Founders Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundersconference.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 2008 Founders Conference<\/a> will meet this June in Owasso, OK focusing on church planting and revitalization. The title is Lengthening the Cords and Strengthening the Stakes: Renewing and Planting Local Churches and features Ed Stetzer, Voddie Baucham, Andy Davis, Tom Nettles, Don Whitney, Ted Christman, and Phil Newton.<\/p>\n<p>The conference website talks about how gimmicks can mask the lack of health in a church and that we should instead seek the God-ordained means of church renewal. This echoes a key theme of mine- using God-given means rather than humanly devised gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p>From the conference website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2008 National Founders Conference will explore the place, necessity, and some of the God-ordained means for church renewal and church planting under the theme, &#8220;Lengthening the Cords and Strengthening the Stakes: Renewing and Planting Local Churches.&#8221;\u009d The conference theme has arisen out of the many questions conference organizers have fielded regarding local church reformation and planting new churches. These themes go hand-in-hand, revealing the desire for healthy, vibrant, and reproducing churches. Conference speakers bring a wealth of experience and expertise in both the strengthening and lengthening of the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will not be able to attend myself, but I wanted to pass on word for any that might be able to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Founders Conference will meet this June in Owasso, OK focusing on church planting and revitalization. The title is Lengthening the Cords and Strengthening the Stakes: Renewing and Planting Local Churches and features Ed Stetzer, Voddie Baucham, Andy Davis, Tom Nettles, Don Whitney, Ted Christman, and Phil Newton. The conference website talks about how &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;2008 Founders Conference&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}