This past weekend I attended a Renovare conference hosted by MPPC. Our primary presenters were Dallas Willard, John Ortberg, and Richard Foster. It was a lot of fun to watch these three men teaching and interacting together. You could tell they held each other in great respect and are great friends.
Renovare is an organization formed to promote spiritual formation. At the core of Renovare is the belief that God's wants us to experience continual renewal. The conference highlighted six "streams" or traditions related to spiritual development: contemplative, holiness, charismatic, social justice, evangelical and incarnational. These themes are fully developped in Foster's book Streams of Living Water.
The conference was wonderful balance of encouragement, practical exercises, and teaching. It is easy for a conference to be so focused on knowledge transfer that people walk away bloated. Other conferences focus only on encouraging folks and leave them with a "rah-rah" emotional high, but little more. Renovare attempts to facilitate transformation. If this conference is any indication, I think they are doing a great job.
I would highly recommend checking out one of the Renovare conferences. You might also want to consider the Spiritual Formation Forum's Conference
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