RU Faith Conference:
Guest speaker Leonard Sweet
“Faith Communities in the 21st Century”

7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Second Reformed Church
100 College Avenue

RSVP to Vera at vlentini@eden.rutgers.edu

MS Word invitation flyer available for download by clicking here.

ABOUT THE RU FAITH CONFERENCE

This event is designed to bring together the various Christian groups on campus for a day of Christian unity. After the talk, Trinity House will host a reception at 14 Stone street where refreshments will be served.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Leonard Sweet’s message is one we can all understand and has meaning for our every day lives:

“As a historian of American culture, Leonard Sweet is a preacher and writer who communicates the Gospel powerfully to a postmodern age by bridging the worlds of academia and popular culture.”

Leonard Sweet is a professor of evangelism at Drew University, NJ and the author of more than 100 articles, 600 published sermons and 30 books, most recently the Gospel According to Starbucks, 2007. He has been voted one of the top 50 most influential Christians in America.

Some excerpts from Leonard Sweet’s Articles:

“The modern world rediscovered the individual and kind of suppressed the community. Everything was ‘I’… So what do postmoderns do? These kids want the communal again, but they can't give up the individual.” (Second Century Youth Ministry)

“Someday I will hold up my Bible before a congregation, shake it, and yell at the top of my lungs, "This is not a book about propositions and programs and principles. This is a book about relationships.” (The Quest for Community)

“The church, not Hollywood, ought to be the world's greatest image factory. The greatest image in the world, the image that draws people into real, life-giving relationship, is the image of God in Jesus the Christ.” (The Quest for Community)

For more articles, see http://www.leonardsweet.com/sweetened/articles.asp