Q PRESENTS:
IMAGEBEARER
Your Part in God's Plan for Creativity, Justice & Flourishing
Q Sessions are boutique events that provide private access to respected and experienced authorities on subjects of critical importance. Through this one-of-a-kind experience with Andy Crouch, you will gain firsthand learning, interaction, and collaboration with one of the foremost thought-leaders in the American church.
We know that humans are made in “God’s image”, but what does that really mean? How should our role as “image-bearers” impact how we engage culture, act against injustice and participate in God’s vision for flourishing in our cities, industries and the world?
Accomplished author, speaker and justice advocate, Andy Crouch is committed to sharing God’s vision for His most wonderful and beautiful creation—you. As one of Q’s most popular and impactful contributors, we are excited to share two days with Andy to explore what it means to bear the image of God in culture today.
Expect to discover:
- Learn how a "good-news first" approach to culture is more effective than beginning with cultural criticism
- Ground your understanding of culture, creativity, and leadership in the biblical categories of image bearing rather than thinner, secular conceptions of power
- Learn why evangelism and social action must always go together, and why neither can happen fully without the other
- Identify systems of idolatry and injustice in your own cultural or ministry context that prevent true human flourishing
- Learn how to be an institutional leader without giving in to institutionalism or bureaucracy
- Discover the practices that allow leaders to use their power in a way that contributes to flourishing and develops others
- Learn how to address issues of privilege and status, race and gender, in ways that generate repentance, creativity, and hope rather than avoidance and guilt
- Engage with a world-class cultural or church leader for an intimate conversation about how they see their calling and their culture
You'll understand the principles behind:
- Why so many marriages fail after one partner achieves success
- Why so many effective social movements (the end of apartheid, the Civil Rights movement, the movement against human trafficking) involve both the "powerful" and the "powerless"
- Why healthy institutions always have strong leaders, but never have indispensable leaders
Don’t miss this private event in an intimate setting to be challenged in your own calling, work and life. These intense couple of days will shape your theology, convict your spirit and likely change your posture to every individual you relate to—from a spouse to work colleagues and those you lead.
More About Andy Crouch:
Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling,winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. A senior editor at Christianity Today International, he has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip and was editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute.