November 24th- TA Dialogue and Video Conferencing Launch
Conversations in everyday life often swirl around things such as meaning (what am I doing here?), happiness, and wholeness/brokenness. Those conversations might not always use that language, but they are happening. What would happen if we began to understand the deepest designs of the human heart and started the conversation there? from Transformational Architecture
In Transformational Architecture, Ron Martoia invites us into bigger and life-defining narratives where the starting point of conversations will have us in the thick of all sorts of God-talk. Ron has us explore the design elements that cause us to crave transformation and how these elements, in fresh ways, can open up spiritual dialogue with friends. The feast that is the biblical text, the cultural context we find ourselves in, our personal stories…how does it fit together and speak to the core yearnings with which we are designed? How does this understanding help us effectively reach people of this generation with the message of the gospel? Welcome to the conversation!
This blog will provide a forum for author interaction, reader comments, and dialogue on Transformational Architecture:Reshaping Our Lives as Narrative. We want to encourage you to read TA and post your comments and/or questions here.
Transformational Architecture is a tremendous read for a communitarian learning environment… a small group, life group, local book club, etc. so invite a group of friends and begin the journey together.
For those churches/organizations/groups who purchased 50 or more copies of Transformational Architecture on November 24th, please forward your amazon email confirmation to nancy@velocityculture.com and we will begin scheduling your 30 minute secured video conference with Ron Martoia.
If you have not picked up your copy of TA, click here.
November 16, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I read through TA last week on my own. There will undoubtedly be a time in the near future where I journey through the book again with a small group. This is a message that desperately needs to be heard and Ron has done an incredible job of making a topic full of rich theology accessible to those of us that aren’t reading PHD level theology.
In Part 1, Ron talks about three different texts that must be considered: the context, the Biblical text and the Human text. It is only when we consider these three texts that we will be able to navigate our way through our own journey and to lead others in doing the same.
In Part 2, Ron describes The Transformation. It is difficult to understand our purpose in life until we begin to understand why we were created. Ron does an incredible job of showing us from scripture a more complete story of life with God and that begins with being made in His image. Once we understand what we were created for, it gives us a new perspective on our future. Starting with an incomplete worldview has crippled evangelical Christianity in its efforts to “win the lost”. When we begin to see why and how we were created it gives us a much healthier place to begin conversations with those around us. Realizing that we were all created with yearnings to connect – to our creator and to those around us helps us begin conversations with some direction for those we are talking to. We, as Christ followers, do have a story that is worthy of being heard but where we begin and end the conversation will depend on whether or not anyone will be listening.
November 22, 2008 at 4:02 am
I am in the process of reading TA myself and am absolutely excited about what I am reading. I pastor and it makes me want to take my congregation through a year long study of the Bible..but one in which I help them see the Big Story in connection with our stories. I love the idea of beginning the story in Genesis 1 and not Genesis 3 where we tend to start the Christian story..if we even start in the Hebrew bible for that matter. This book needs to be read by pastors..and laypeople..and in seminaries!