{"id":23355,"date":"2019-06-11T23:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2019-06-11T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:35:17","slug":"encounter-formation-expression-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/encounter-formation-expression-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Encounter – Formation – Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a sermon a few years ago, Mike Ashcraft, Pastor of Port City Community Church preached a sermon on the concept of Encounter –> Formation –> Expression.[1]<\/a> Essentially, the concept is that as we go about our day to day lives, we are encountering new things all the time. These encounters lead to a space of formation where our hearts our being changed. The expression is how we live differently because of what we encounter and how it shapes us. On the surface, it seems an easy enough concept to understand, but when you recognize that we are always at all stages of this process, it becomes quite deep and gives a robust framework for understanding the world.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve come to adopt this lens of Encounter –> Formation –> Expression in our work mobilizing and educating college-aged students to part in the work God is doing around the world. Our hope is that by pushing them out of their comfort zones, we\u2019re creating spaces to encounter God, oneself, community, and nature in new ways, which lead to a formation of the heart, and and in the end, we have the expectation that students will live differently. In essence, we\u2019re seeking after what some might call a lived knowledge[2]<\/a> of the gospel and ones own self.<\/p>\n

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In a collection of writings surrounding the work of Martyn Percy, Daniel Warnke drills down on Percy\u2019s understanding of vocational ministry as it relates to pedagogical and andragogical learning.[3]<\/a> Martyn Percy, like his wife Emma Percy, write frequently about the occupation and life of being a priest, and try and give frameworks to define a vocation that can be hard to articulate.[4]<\/a> In the end, Percy believes that a good priest is marked by ones own formation: \u201cIn other words, who<\/em> you are is as important as what<\/em> you know or are capable of doing.\u201d[5]<\/a> Percy goes on to talk deeply about formation as a process and how a vocation of ministry is much more than a career choice, but is instead part of a much bigger process of sacred callings.[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Percy continually reminds us in his writings to look for the deeper learning, which ultimately, is rooted in the personhood of Christ.[7]<\/a> At his core, Percy is a practical theologian, which calls us to the deep work of encountering new things. After all, practical theology is the idea that all theological truths can be applied to every day life.[8]<\/a> All of these encounters are causing us to move beyond just encountering God, but challenging us to the work of participation in the Kingdom, which comes through a process of formation. All this leads to a pairing of a theoretical and lived out dimension of one\u2019s faith \u2013 or an expression of faith in new ways.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> \u201cLean In: Pt 1.,\u201d Messages, Port City Community Church, last modified October 30, 2016, https:\/\/subsplash.com\/portcitychurch\/messages\/mi\/+36075e1<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Daniel Warnke, \u201cPractically Priests: Privileging the Lived in Ministerial Training,\u201d in Reasonable Radical?: Reading the Writings of Martyn <\/em>Percy edited by Ian S. Markham and Joshua Daniel, Eugene, OR.: Pickwick Publications, 2018. Loc 4922<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid., Loc 4724<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Emma Percy, What Clergy Do: Especially When it Looks Like <\/em>Nothing (SPCK Publishing: London, UK, 2014.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Ibid., Loc 4789<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Ibid., Loc 4810<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Daniel Warnke, \u201cPractically Priests: Privileging the Lived in Ministerial Traning,\u201d in Reasonable Radical?: Reading the Writings of Martyn <\/em>Percy edited by Ian S. Markham and Joshua Daniel, Eugene, OR.: Pickwick Publications, 2018. Loc 5036<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a>\u201cWriting for Practical Theology,\u201d Center for Theological Writing, Westminster Theological Seminary, accessed on June 10, 2019, https:\/\/students.wts.edu\/resources\/westminster_center_for_theolog\/paper_formatshtml\/practical_theology.html<\/p>\n

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