Quote from participant of the first teleios conference:
As far as bang for bucks goes this ‘conference’ certainly went further and deeper than anything else. I am amazed at the difference that time together has made in my seeing. The most amazing thing is that the change is not manufactured. I've been in churches for so long and overdosed on conferences and come away with a desire to do better only to fall - none of that is real.
This is completely different. My vision is different and that has caused behavioural change. (Not perfection though) I'm not trying to be better. I'm not even thinking about that or what would Jesus do. I am seeing different and that seeing means I cannot be the same. My staff has noticed it too!
Matthew Walcott, optometrist.

teleios start-point:
Paul in Ephesians 3:9-11 describes God’s strategy for the church as follows:
‘to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things; in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.
This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.’

The hebraic vision of the church in creation positions the people of God – the church - in areas such as business, health, education and more. It reveals creation, rather than congregation, as being the focus for the body of Christ, the church. To equip this church in creation, we cannot draw upon the thinking that has to date been used to establish the congregation as central to church strategy; we must look to a different set of wisdoms.

Congregational and small group leaders do obviously have a part to play, but these servants cannot lead the church in creation. It is the people of God who must now come to the fore; it is their good work and the wisdoms that arise from that work that will cause the church in creation to grow and ‘the fullness’ that Paul speaks of realised.

The church in creation grows on the basis of your good works and the wisdoms that emerge from them. These wisdoms reveal how this present creation is designed to function, be it in health, business, family or any other facet of life. It’s time we understood their place and their purpose in bringing the church as ‘the fullness of him who fills all in all’ to the fore.

Venue: Manly Village Conference Centre, Manly Uniting Church. Sydney.
Cost: $120. Student $50.
Saturday morning 9:00 am – 12:00 plenary sessions
Afternoon: 1:30 – 5:30 pm. three consecutive workshops
Evening session: 6:00 to 7:15 pm. Open discussion, debrief & forum.

Afternoon workshops:
1. leadership at work – John van Geldermalsen
2. approaches to health and healing practice – Joanna Barker
3. the church gathered under a hebrew heaven – Michael Martin
Register on this site.
See website for more details re. workshops


The next teleios event: 2 day retreat. 24th – 26th October 2008: deeper exploration and experience of the hebraic cosmology
Friday evening to Sunday lunch. Megalong Valley Blue Mountains. Limit of 15 people. $320 per person.
(available only to those who have attended the preparatory ‘divine strategy for the church in creation’ day – i.e. event 2.)
Covering the following ground: -
• the journey from construct to creation
• the importance of space and time in understanding truth and enacting the divine strategy: exploring the relationship between one’s particular temperament and their experience of spirituality
• encountering the three main cosmological designs of creation – heaven over earth:
in, through and over all things: good desire & the thorns, the sweat and the dying
• entering into the Hebrew landscape