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It's More Important To Be Kind Than Right

By Jim Henderson

With these words I introduced this years Off The Map event called You Say You Want A Revolution

Many theologian types in the room breathed a sigh of relief when Brian McLaren got up and modified my intro with. I'm not sure it's correct to say that it's more important to be kind than right but I can say that if you are not kind you are not right.

With this we launched our two day exploration into the surprisingly controversial land of kindness.

A couple of weeks earlier Dave Richards (my Off The Map co-founder) and I were discussing the focus of the event. We’ve been concerned with the drift among evangelicals towards “rightness” and I’m not referring to a political drift, I’m talking about the casual way we’ve come to embrace our primary identity as followers of Jesus as about being “right”. That’s the ground we’ve managed to stake out in our culture and everyone (Christian and unbeliever) knows it. But what is most problematic to me is that – we are proud of it.... Read The Rest of this Article...

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What did the conference mean to you?

Here is what some people experienced at the event.

Finding Jesus in the Revolution by Pam Hogeweide.
Pam hates conferences but took a chance on ours.

Aching to start something ‘out of bounds’.
John is a conservative pastor, whose church recently shot down his idea of starting an alternative service but he still hopes to start something for ‘outcasts inside and outside the church”.

I’m convinced the church can learn to be kind
Mike is an evangelical Christian who is sharing the good news about the difference kindness makes.

It felt like heaven to me...
Esther has been moving away from a fundamentalist form of Christianity. At times she has felt like abandoning church altogether but being at the conference helped her see that there is another option.

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