Bridge Houston Sessions
Weekend Seminar in Houston, TX | May 2-3, 2025
Bammel Church of Christ, 2700 Cypress Creek Pkwy, Houston, TX 77068 (map)
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This year, our focus is on “Faith Formation in a Digital Age.” This topic, one that we often associate with young people, truly affects us all as we engage the opportunities and challenges that ever-developing technology creates for Jesus-followers in our world. Theologians, psychologists, and doctors are only beginning to understand the impact that things like smartphones are having on us. But we all know that technology means change, and change can be challenging. We hope you will join us as we consider biblical insights, think about theological implications, and discuss the real-life ministry impact the digital age has on us and our people.
Sessions
Dimensions of Faith: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith Formation in a Digital Age
Dr. Mason Lee
Christian faith is a relationship of trust in the God whose love and faithfulness are revealed in Jesus Christ. But what does it mean to form and grow this faith? And how does our Digital Age present challenges and opportunities for faith formation? This talk explores the many dimensions of Christian faith – belief, relationship, commitment, and mystery – and how our digital age presents us with unique obstacles to the formation of those faith dimensions in ourselves and in our communities. But it also considers ways that our digital age opens opportunities for the formation of these dimensions that may not have been possible before. This session will develop a holistic vision of faith formation, consider the unique challenges and opportunities for formation in our digital age, and offer some ways of engaging faith formation in this environment as individuals and communities.
Is the Digital Me the Real Me?
Dr. Mark Hamilton
Today we live in the middle of a technological and social revolution, whose outcomes no one can predict. Today the boundaries between the creators and consumers of information have dissolved, and we are all our own publishers. Therefore, the urgent question for Christians is, how do we keep our integrity as church and as individuals in the church in a world where I can communicate anything I want to? How do we grow as moral people who pray and confess Jesus as Lord of every aspect of our lives in such a world? What does the good news sound like in this changing world? This talk will address these and related questions in light of Scripture and the experiences of Christians during previous revolutions.
Awe and Wonder as Spiritual Practices in a Digital Age
Dr. Tera Harmon
If your life is anything like mine, many voices vie for your attention every day, and the more digital our world becomes, the more voices there are. Some of these voices might be trivial, but a great many of them are actually very important. We only have so much attention to give. How should we direct it? In this session, we’ll consider the ideas of awe and wonder and how holding onto a sense of ourselves as small beings in a large creation can help us navigate the onslaught of information that comes over us each day.