An Alternative to the Consumer Conference另一种向消费者会议
Written by Mark Van Steenwyk : February 22, 2006写的马克范steenwyk ： 2006年2月22日
Thanks to感谢 Jeff杰夫 for pointing out this conference opportunity:指出这次会议的机会： The Buzz Conference流行会议 . Now those of you who were planning on going to the现在在座各位谁被规划就到 Conference on Christianity in a Consumer Culture会议上，基督教在一个消费文化 have an additional option for conference awesomeness!有一个额外的选择，会议awesomeness ！
(in case you are one of those infrequent visitors to my blog, let me be quite clear that what I have written in this post is a snarky joke) （在情况下，您是其中一人疏旅客来我的博客，让我很清楚，什么，我已经写在这个职位是一个snarky笑话）
for further reading .为进一步读。 . 。 . 。
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My favorite part of the site is when I read this about the sponsoring church:我最喜爱的一部分，该网站是当我阅读这本有关教会办学：
“Recognized as one of the most innovative churches in the country, NCC is orthodox in doctrine but unorthodox in practice. “公认的一个最创新的教会在该国， NCC的是东正教在教义，但另类，在实践中。 NCC?s creative approach to ministry has resulted in a unique demographic: 75% single twenty-somethings and 75% unchurched and dechurched.” NCC的？创造性的做法，教育部已导致在一个独特的人口： 75 ％单20多岁和75 ％ ，不去教会和dechurched “ 。
If you can’t fit all of your unorthodoxly orthodox church attenders into the typical math, just expand it a bit.如果你能不适合您的所有unorthodoxly东正教教堂attenders到典型的数学，只是扩大一点。
I’m still just in shock about the whole thing.我仍然只是在休克约整个事情。 I guess I just don’t want to believe that someone(s) have the gall to do such a thing.我猜想，我只是不想相信有人有（ S ）居然做这样的事。 I’m not even amused by it.我不是，甚至有趣。 I’m deeply saddened.我深感痛心。 It’sa real shame.这是真正的耻辱。
I find it sad too, Jeff.我觉得太难过，杰夫。 But I can understand where they are coming from.但我可以理解他们来自何处。 It is easy for us to say that their understanding is flawed, but it is difficult to help them gain “new eyes.” The really frustrating thing is that our conference addresses this issue, but most of the people who are going to attend the conference already sympathize with our perpective.这是我们很容易说，他们的理解是有缺陷的，但它是困难，帮助他们获得“新眼睛”真的令人沮丧的事是，我们的会议地址，这个问题，但大部分的人谁去参加本次会议已经同情与我们perpective 。 How do we help the Church be true to its nature?我们如何帮助教会属实，其性质？
I guess by doing what we’re doing and by being true to it ourselves.我猜想做我们正在做的和正在给它的真正的自己。
Or maybe we just purge the infidels.或者，也许我们只是清除异教徒。
Wow, this amazes me.哇，这amazes我。 How sad.如何伤心。
I think that in order to cause change we must become the change we want to see.我认为，在以事业的变化，我们必须成为改变我们所不愿看到的。 The consumer conf is a great way of creating conversation on this subject.消费者配置是一个伟大的方式创造的谈话就此事。 we have a lot of work to do.我们有很多工作要做。