For all of you who took in the I-Heart Revolution movie, I love hearing how God stirs hearts. Please write down your thoughts.
This should get you started:
As you took it all in, how would describe what God was stirring in your heart to DO? ...
This past Sunday as we talked about the key ingredient of "vision" for our families we saw from Genesis how God's vision for human beings needs to get inside us and become our own.
I found this article, which is available for download online, searching "finding your child's calling". I thought it had some very helpful insight I ...
3 Critical Leadership Lessons from a quick glance visit to Liberty University
I had never seen Liberty University and, like most people, had only a caricature knowledge of its founder Jerry Falwell. Standing in Lynchburg and seeing a campus that is now reaching (with internet) some 50,000 students, I couldn’t help but be inspired. ...
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Thoughts on our vision for a church of extravagant worshipers. ...
Core to our calling as a church is to “make the case for the faith” to our generation. This is inspired by a study of the book of Acts and how Paul went about the task of missions. In that spirit, July is dedicated to equipping us to answer the question: “Is Christianity fact or fairy tale?”
We’ll begin with the question I think is the toughest.
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A glimpse of what the surveys helped us realize about our community. ...
It is a faith-building blast to find myself in very serious discussions about opening our church in Washington Square Mall. Our trustees gathered last night to discuss it again. The consensus has been that the idea makes sense. Beginning years ago, I remember asking God to do a work in our church where something like Washington Square Mall made sense. That’s what I am still praying. And, honestly, my prayer has been that we, as a church ...
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Some of the reasons we do what we do when it comes to art and creativity in church. ...
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The community surveys helps us fulfil the great comission by being missional in getting to know our own community. ...
Keep in mind, there is much more to say but I'm trying to boil it down as much as possible.
Our Senior Leadership Team took a couple of days this week to attempt a final wrestling with the Edge / Summit debate. We knew we needed to make a decision and move forward. And we have.
Here is a "Top 10" list of things to keep in mind about our proposed solution:
PROBLEM. We have an undeniable problem. We have never attempted to ignore, hide ...
