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the greatest joy in giving the greatest sacrifice…
we joined another part of the body of Christ this morning, so missed our usual gathering with encounter – but Brian brought it this morning for sure. watch the video (the message starts about 15 min in).
video on ustream
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Finding real life
This morning Brian laid a challenging discussion on us. Are you finding real life?
We started off with a look at things we want people to focus on…
my temptations
my relationships
my joys
my thoughts
my fears
my desires
my walk with God
my questions
my needs
my feelings
my goals
my dreams
my longings
my hopes
my hurts
my past
We’re always looking for people to fulfill those areas of our [...]
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11/365
11/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
walk by faith
We were challenged this morning to face our giants. To face the areas in our lives that are keeping us from taking the next step with God.
Brian pointed out five giants we face. I think I could use some help against each giant.
fully surrender
intentional relationships
caring for others
personal responsibility
leadership
I’m [...]
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Better be living it out…
listening to Matt Chandler at a church planting conference….
“If you’re gonna teach this (missional life) you better be living it out. Because eventually the people are going to look around and say – we haven’t seen any of your neighbors in the water”
- Matt Chandler from Resurgence Conference
Vision of a Church Planter
ouch! a slap in [...]
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come join us!
Come join us Saturday night. If you’re interested let me know.
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slides from yesterday
Josh and I spoke/led the discussion at encounter yesterday. Unfortunately the audio didn’t get saved so there will be no podcast this week but they did record the audio/video stream over at ustream.tv/encounter (I hear its a bit choppy).
Either way, thought I’d share our powerpoint slides. So you can get an idea of [...]
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new community group news
A new issue of the weekly community group newsletter is online.
I try and publish it each Monday — running a little late this week. (of course it’s naturally geared more towards encounter peeps – but hope it’s useful for you as well.
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Reimagining Church
Finished “Reimagining Church” last night. A good followup to Frank Viola’s book “Pagan Christianity” The book picks up in many places where Pagan Christianity left off – but also works as a standalone piece as well. As the summaries and publishers suggest, Pagan Christianity deconstructs the church and Reimagining reconstructs it.
Don’t know if it [...]
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encounter goes living room
Yesterday we had a different Sunday morning experience for encounter. Rather than gathering at the Civic Center, we met in 10 different homes around Ellis County. Each group was given a DVD (video below) and the DVDs were followed up with some discussion questions.
We had a great time yesterday morning!
I keep hearing more and more [...]
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Change for the better
Shared this with our community 2.0 leaders today….
Hello community 2.0 peeps…
Last night at our community group the three of us (yeah it was a slow week ) sat and talked about a number of things from prayer, to leadership, to future community groups etc. etc. We each talked about how refreshing Sunday at encounter [...]
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