Poets, Prophets & Preachers
July 5-7, 2009
Grand Rapids, MI
DeVos Performance Hall
Sunday July 5
4pm Registration check-in begins – DeVos Performance Hall lobby
7 pm
Rob Bell – The Original Guerilla Theatre
throwing ourselves into this ancient, sacred art form with the absurd, naive, antiquated belief that the world needs inspiring, provocative, comforting, dangerous, healing, great sermons now more than ever
Monday July 6
9 am
Rob Bell – The Story We’re Telling
sin, salvation, business, art, justice and the importance of beginning in the beginning
11 am
Peter Rollins – Returning to the New: An Introduction to Transformance Art
what do flash mobs, performance artists, and pirates have to do with Christianity? exploring how the church can act as an aroma of the coming kingdom
noon
break for lunch
2 pm
Shane Hipps – How Technology Shapes the Sermon
the art of preaching evolves with every new technological innovation in a culture. do you know what is being done and undone by our technologies?
5 pm
break for dinner
7 pm
Rob Bell – The Fig Tree and the Failure of Language
moment, movement, mystery, and the science of homiletical architecture (alternate title: why some sermons work and others don’t)
Tuesday July 7
9 am
Rob Bell – Fumbling Around with Your Radar
tools, questions, approaches, and everyday 5 minute disciplines that have helped me understand where sermons come from
11 am
Peter Rollins – For Those With Ears to Hear: Parables and the Lost Art of Provocation
an exploration of that theological dis-course that holds the power to send us hurtling off course and onto a new one
noon
break for lunch
2 pm
Shane Hipps – You Are the Medium
an exploration of the human being as God’s ultimate medium for his message. if the medium is the message, and you as a person are the medium, then what does that say about the message?
4 – 5 pm
Rob Bell – The One Thing I’ve Never Heard Someone Talk About That Has Changed Everything for Me
Answers to questions you’re just about to ask
- Was this event filmed?
- yes
- When will it be released?
- there has been no specific release dates set yet
- How can I be sure to be notified about any future release dates?
- sign up your email address here: https://www.robbell.com/stay-informed
- Was there any required reading?
- yes, here’s a start:
- Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps
- How Not to Speak of God by Peter Rollins
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Art and Fear by Bayles and Orland
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman
- Elegy on a Toy Piano by Dean Young
- Wall and Piece by Banksy
- “Skirmish” by Dobby Gibson
- What if I still have questions?
- email us: sermonizer@robbell.com