Todd Hunter Launches "Society for Kingdom Living"
This press release has been posted around the blogosphere, but I wanted to pass it along here to folks who may not have seen it yet:
Three Is Enough Groups – Spirituality For the Sake of Others
Todd Hunter, former CEO of Alpha USA, launches new ministry to focus on spiritual transformation
BOISE, ID, April 2, 2008 — Effective April 1, Todd Hunter (51) transitioned from his role of National Director at Alpha USA to launch a new ministry focused on helping pastors and lay leaders reach a generation that has become disenfranchised from the church.
Under the new non-profit, Society for Kingdom Living, Hunter will develop his writing, speaking and professional activities in the areas of conversational evangelism and the 21st century church. Hunter has a passion for evangelism but is convinced that Christianity in America has a massive image problem that stymies most attempts at evangelism. With the basic premise that Christianity needs to be re-practiced in order to help make followers of Jesus in this generation, he is developing resources and events that include writing a series of three books, the first to be published by InterVarsity Press, developing conferences, and teaching at key seminaries.
His first major conference to be held in Minneapolis on May 16-17 features conversational evangelism pioneers Mark Mittleberg, Becky Pippert, Dan Kimball and Garry Poole and Rick Richardson. Hunter has asked Jim Henderson and Off The Map to produce these conferences.
Hunter will begin this ministry by teaching and consulting on Three Is Enough Groups. These groups are designed to show people how to undo un-Christian faith by showing them that heaven is not the goal of Christianity — it is simply the destination. Being the servant — otherly people of God — is the goal.
Through his writing and teaching, Hunter will encourage churches and lay leaders to begin forming Three Is Enough Groups to help individuals pray, grow and serve. Keeping the groups small and focused insures that evangelism can happen anywhere, in the midst of people’s busy lives. Meeting in their most natural places of community — the workplace, school, or at the local coffee shop — Three Is Enough Groups will go on the Journey Inward of spiritual transformation and the Journey Outward of serving others. This will be done through the power of the Holy Spirit, for the sake of others — the least, the last and the missing.
Hunter will continue to be a consultant to Alpha USA and will remain on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He will have an active role in promoting Alpha, teaching on Alpha’s practices, building relationships and advising the organization on strategy.
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I agree Steve Brown – I meet with Todd and a group of other yesterday night though explained well we had questions which Todd has promised to work into the Frequently Asked Questions area of his up coming website.
He is still working on his book at the moment – Three is enough.
I believe there is a lot of potential here, but execution and implementation could be difficult.
My take on it, maybe not what he was intending was that this would be an alternative approach to depending and waiting on a pastor or other leadership to present an evangelistic approach which we all know ultimately will produce small fruit – and instead Three is Enough provides a way of evangelism that is both unoffensive to non-Christians and takes the necessity of having church oversight to express the Gospel of Christ through essentially friendship evangelism – but taking friendship evangelism a step higher by adding an accountability factor of a third person.
I think this could serve very nicely to help protect each other from the easy mistakes and pitfalls ofter encountered during one on one relational friendship envangelism.
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The idea of teaching people to make disciples where they are at and how to be relational is great. I like the three group idea, but I think we need to be careful not to get caught up in the means and miss the intended meaning of the practice. New methodology is always coming out, and I think this is a healthy perspective on making disciples,but it would be wise to really make sure that when this method is used in ministries to really get the principal of disciple making, and not just learn another 3 step method for converting people and developing them.