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Take an acorn in your hand, and you hold a source of life; a container for a completely designed yet hidden purpose. Once planted, the life within the seed is slowly revealed, and it becomes a great tree bearing many acorns of its own. This tree--simply grown according to the acorn's design--provides us a hint of our purpose as Christians. At the Forge, we seek to render our lives as nothing more than fertile ground from which the life and purpose of Jesus Christ will grow.

While the acorn offers a simple picture, our minds give rise to great questions concerning this Christian life—foundational ones concerning our identity as the body of Christ and our purpose within His Church, as well as existential concerns of what to do with our lives. This forum is meant to host a dialogue on these questions. Many different cultures, backgrounds and church experiences were represented at the Forge, and hopefully will also be represented within this forum. Through this exchange of thoughts and experiences, we seek to increase the vitality of our lives in Jesus Christ and allow this life to spread to the local communities impacted by Forge participants as they return to different corners of the world.

We hope there will be challenging opinions and encouraging words so that we may grow and mature, and Christ may continue to unite us as one, just as He and His Father are one.