III:TEXT is an online learning community that comes together from all over the world for exposure to and engagement of the three texts we are always exploring: the biblical text, the human text, and context. Ron brokers resources that may not be on your radar…the emerging edge of the three texts.
the III:TEXTs
I. BIBLICAL TEXT — Understand the elegant sweep of the story it tells. Engage the broader brush strokes of the biblical narrative so together we become better equipped to invite others to allow God’s story to shape and intersect theirs.
II. CONTEXT — Become semioticians; readers of the signs of the times. Grapple with the questions that are a part of the cultural container in which we have been invited to bring the news flash of the message of Jesus.
III. HUMAN TEXT — Delve into the human text of personal and collective narration. What is your story? What is our story? What are people telling themselves these days?. What are personal development issues, heart passions, spiritual practices? What issues, hurts and pains do we face and what does that mean to how we translate the message of the news flash Jesus came to announce?
Details: Your syllabus will include a reading list of texts. It will be your responsibility to secure the texts prior to the start of the module. Participants will need to read resources according to the schedule provided. These texts include some of the most recent publications as well as very obscure publications. The syllabus will include a password to enable you to enter a secure chat zone at the shapevine campus for online dialogue.
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My blog is a place where I reflect on my listenings and learnings. It’s honestly a reflection of material I’m either learning about at the moment or stuff I’m using in my coaching, consulting or the conference speaking that I’m doing. Hope it is helpful.
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Get Ron Martoia on site for a couple of days to work with you, your staff, and/or board to customize an action plan for the next steps toward kingdom growth, personal and community transformation. Areas and topics for consideration listed below.
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theological currents impacting ministry
Many of our theological constructions are increasingly found to be modern. What rethinking is happening and what does this mean for the practical everyday stuff of ministry? You may be surprised.
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velocity learning conversations
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Velocity Learning Conversations are spaces where leaders come together to discuss theological, spiritual formation, leadership and ecclesiological contours of 21st century ministry.
On-site VLCs are limited to no more than 40 participants where ministry leaders from various churches, in that region, come together to discuss theological, spiritual formation, leadership and ecclesiological contours of 21st century ministry guided by Ron.
Online VLCs provide a space where leaders from all over the world can meet on the web for live conversation to discuss spiritual formation, theology, leadership and personal development.
The format for VLCs is dialogue: a genuine listening and learning from each other about the issues most pressing in ministry today. The only ministry experiences in this post-Christendom era are two: 1. slow death 2. deep change. [read more...]
This is a brand new section to the face lifted velocity site. We have some very exciting things in store for the future. How would you like to log in and find videocasts, audio downloads, pdf’s, application exercises and questions on the sort of topics VelocityCulture has always focused on? Would you be interested in resources like that in the areas of leadership? Culture? Spirituality? Creativity? Human Developmnt? If you are interested in this area would you please log your email right here so we can let you know when this comes online? E-learning is one of the hottest ways to learn right now. And we are going to do all we can to create a site that is well stocked with resources that really add value to your life and the organisms you serve, whatever their shape and focus.
iiitext:
Sly Avoidance or Understanding
The cutting edge of leadership development right now is learning how we individually have very sly avoidance mechanisms that keep us from changing. Understanding those hidden immunities to change are what need to fund a new leadership model. I think we need to move far beyond trite bible verse quoting and engage with the deepest reflection on what it means to self lead our own deep change and then understand how to help others do the same. Online conversation: 2.1.10- 4.23.10. 2 day/2 hour live online conference: 4.29.10 & 4.30.10. In Real Life Meeting May, 2010. Click here for additional details. $359.00
Audio Products:
From Instinct to Imagination
– In this video link Ron Martoia teaches how to read the Bible for the (R)evolutionary Story it is. With specific examples like the creation narrative and the Tower of Babel story, Ron guides you through looking at the scripture with an understanding of the social context of the author, the social context of the story, and our current context. $10.00
Centering Prayer
- Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591) said “Silence is God’s first language.” How do you learn this language of silence, this centering prayer practice? How do you make this surrender practice a pattern and core gesture of your soul, the pattern and posture of your life? Resources that you will receive in this package include a 90 minute download of a VLC webcast taught by Ron on Centering Prayer, a guided audio practice download, and a .pdf with helpful reminder/resources. $19.00
A Spirituality of Awareness
- In a 40 minute audio download Ron guides the listener through a biblically based model (understanding what Jesus meant by ‘eyes to see’) into an understanding of what transformation is and how to invite others into it. Moving beyond an information spiritual formation model to a spiritual formation model that engages the practices and containers necessary for transformation. $10.00
This is where we will have conversations if you are a part of IIIText, one of our various Online Learning Communities, or one of our Reading Discussion groups.
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