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Sanctuary at Crossroads

posted by xscot mcknight | 12:20am Tuesday September 25, 2007

Sunday morning I flew up to Minneapolis-St Paul to speak to the Meal Groups at the Sanctuary, a ministry of Crossroads Church. They are in Cottage Grove, MN. It was a great time. Here are some highlights for me:
First, Katie Kuehne, one of our students at NPU, was there as she is waiting to go spend the rest of the fall in Calcutta at Mother Teresa’s ministries. Wow, I thought, she’s in for a life time experience.
Second, Brad Kindall was with Katie and we went to The Loring for a brunch. I’d not heard of The Loring down at the University of Minnesota but I must say it is a cool, cool place. Reminded me of an old Speakeasy. We had some good conversation.
Third, I got to the church, had a few minutes, checked in to find that the Cubs were winning and the Brew-Crew losing, and that was good news.
Fourth, I spoke to the Meal Groups about establishing missional group life and then we had a great worship service where I was asked to speak about the themes of Embracing Grace. I don’t very often get to talk about this book and so I’m appreciative every time I am asked. I believe it is time for us to ask again “what is the gospel?” Sanctuary will be doing that the next few weeks as they work their way through this book in their meal groups.
OK, great band, new songs for me with good lyrics, and it was nice to celebrate communion with my brothers and sisters at the Sanctuary. Crossroads is an innovative, growing, and empowering church and I hope if you are near there you will have a chance to check it out. Both Brad and James impressed me with vision and commitment.



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Chris Meirose

posted September 26, 2007 at 10:56 am


Scot,
Thanks for flying in for Sactuary’s Meal Group launch! We really appreciated it, and your message that sets the tone for people as they unpack your book. Exciting things are happening at Crossroads Church! If my numbers are right, we are now serving roughly 40% of our adults in our Meal Groups! That is more than double the number just last Spring.
6 of us are treking to Willow Creek later today (well, Rockford, then onto Willow tomorrow) and are all looking forward to hearing you bright and early to kick off the Ancient-Future Conference!
Chris Meirose
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Ancient-Future Conference at Willow Creek Community Church and our Meal Group Launch « Because I said so

[...] Posted by mrclm on September 26th, 2007 Later today, myself and 5 others from my church will all pile into a 15 passenger van (minus the back seat) and make the trek down to Willow Creek Community Church for the Ancient-Future Conference for small group ministries.  Scot McKnight, Will Miller, Henry Cloud, Bill Donahue, Alan Hirsch, Ron Martoia, and Mark Buchanan are just a few of the many leaders who will be leading sessions.  We actually had Scot McKnight flown into our church (Crossroads) this past weekend to help launch one part of our meal groups ministry for our Sanctuary service. [...]



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Because I said so · Ancient-Future Conference at Willow Creek Community Church and our Meal Group Launch

[...] Later today, myself and 5 others from my church will all pile into a 15 passenger van (minus the back seat) and make the trek down to Willow Creek Community Church for the Ancient-Future Conference for small group ministries.  Scot McKnight, Will Miller, Henry Cloud, Bill Donahue, Alan Hirsch, Ron Martoia, and Mark Buchanan are just a few of the many leaders who will be leading sessions.  We actually had Scot McKnight flown into our church (Crossroads) this past weekend to help launch one part of our meal groups ministry for our Sanctuary service. [...]



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