The Trinity Forum Academy Fellows hosted over sixty guests at Osprey Point January 29-31, 2010 for a collaborative weekend focused on assessing power structures within our society and how to humbly wield our personal power with love and wisdom. Keynote speakers Michael Lindsay and Andy Crouch, themselves committed friends, challenged guests to consider how they, along with members of their community, might use their own position of influence to serve people in need. To put the ideas immediately...
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At the Trinity Forum Academy 2010 Annual Conference, Andy Crouch discusses Christian stewardship of power. Power is infrequently discussed in Christian circles, and yet it is one of the most important areas of life to understand and control, particularly for those in positions of leadership. Crouch illustrates the important shift from the exercise of power as idolatry to the exercise of power as a reflection of God's creative act.
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At the Trinity Forum Academy 2010 Annual Conference, Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power, speaks about how Christians can reconcile a call to steward power with a call to walk humbly and sacrificially as Christ did. Power is not something that should be ignored. One need not see or even exercise power to have it. Lindsay reveals the interesting findings of his 90 interviews with former Whitehouse Fellows, and the different responses people have to power, as well as their...
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“I’ve come to understand calling as bringing to bear God-given talents and passions to God’s redemptive work in the world. I see the connection in the work I do on Monday morning with the expansion of God’s kingdom, healing the sick here in Burundi. It’s a deeply meaningful connection.” Jonathan O’Connor Education: B.A. in Economics from Southeastern University Experience: Co-founder and current director for LifeNet International in Burundi, formerly an investment Analyst for CNL Real Estate...
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