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Breaking the 200 Barrier Webcast (NOW COMPLETED)
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:00
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Growth Barriers Conference Webcast
Breaking the 200 BarrierFebruary 7, 2012 • 7:00 pm--9:00 pm
Speaker
Ed Stetzer, President of Lifeway Research
Topics
• Information for church leaders to assist in understanding the inherent barriers to growing the church to her God given size.
• Focus on assisting leaders to develop a strategic plan for their barrier.
Beyond My Church: A Book Interview with Jason C. Dukes
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 08:00
I've known Jason Dukes for a few years now. A pastor in the Orlando area, Jason and his local congregation focus on being the church, doing life together, and giving themselves away. They emphasize "living sent" - being a letter from God communicating His love and hope in the message of their daily lives among all whom they encounter. As someone who frequently talks and writes on our "sentness," you can easily see the connection Jason and I share.
In Jason's new book Beyond My Church, he explores the essentials of church unity and explains how it can become part of the DNA of your local church expression.
Feel free to jump in with questions and comments. Jason will be coming by the blog today to dialogue.
Beyond My Church -Â lots of places you can go with that title. What's the premise of the book?
We all have fervently prayed for personal awakening and community revival before, but how fervently have we taken Jesus' prayer in the Garden for us, His church? He pr...
Monday is for Missiology: Seeing Missional in 3D
Monday, 06 February 2012 08:00
The term missional is commonly used in conversations among Christians today. The earliest known usage of the word missional occurred in 1883 in The Heroes of African Discovery and Adventure, by C.E. Bourne, and its next usage materialized in 1907 in The Age of Justinian and Theodora by W.G. Holmes, though neither of these occurrences uses the word the way it is used today. As the term has grown in popularity, it brings with it some theological concerns, challenges, and opportunities.
The defining missiological debate in mission history has been the relationship between "church and mission," which has become a catalyst for three dimensions of missional: missionary, mission, and the missio Dei.
The Church as "Missionary"
In 1910, John Mott called the leaders of the evangelical world to the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference's ambition was to carry the gospel to the entire non-Christian world (compare Luke 9:1-6 ). The Edinburgh conferees formed a com...
Morning Roundup - February 6, 2012
Monday, 06 February 2012 04:30
Last week, Komen for the Cure decided to no longer fund Planned Parenthood. The uproar was immediate and overwhelming from Planned Parenthood and the media.
Here is a recap:
Komen Says Planned Parenthood Plans Are Mischaracterized -- USA Today
The founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure said Thursday that there had been a "gross mischaracterization" about the group's controversial decision to stop funding breast exams at Planned Parenthood.
Komen, the country's largest breast cancer charity, gave $680,000 to Planned Parenthood last year to provide health education and breast exams to poor and uninsured women. Komen, which helped popularize pink ribbons as a symbol of breast cancer awareness, will not renew most of those grants because of a new policy denying money to groups under investigation. Planned Parenthood is being investigated by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., for possibly using taxpayer money for abortions.
The controversy hasn't hurt Komen financi...
Church Sign of the Week & Weekly Wrap
Friday, 03 February 2012 05:00
Earlier this week at EdStetzer.com
- Thursday is for Thinkers: Sally Lloyd-Jones
- A Closer Look: Incarnation and Christology
- Evangelical Convictions: A Conversation with Greg Strand about the Evangelical Free Church's Doctrinal Statement Revision
- Monday is for Missiology: Three Important Church Trends and the Elephant in the Church
- Saturday is for Seminars: The D6 Conference in Frisco, TX
Church Signs of the Week
Since this weekend marks the end of the NFL season, it's only appropriate that we celebrate with more Tebow. Thanks to Drew Clayton and Josh Weaver for these.
As always, send me your signs on twitter @EdStetzer.
...Thursday is for Thinkers: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Thursday, 02 February 2012 08:00
Today marks the 2012 debut of my Thursday is for Thinkers series, and I am pleased to welcome Sally Lloyd-Jones to the blog. Over the next few months I will sharing guest posts from Kelly Minter, Jen Hatmaker, Eugene Cho, and a host others.
Many of you know Sally as the author of the Jesus Storybook Bible. We have the book and use it in our home. The unique quality found in many of Sally's books is the Christo-centric nature in which she directs the story. So today, I asked her to talk about that and how she shapes the stories she writes. Sally will be interacting today on the blog, so feel free to ask questions you may have in the comments below.
People have approached me, holding up one of my children's books, flicking through it backwards--awful for a writer because it implies the order of the words don't matter--and cheerfully announcing, "I'm going to do one. I mean. REALLY. How hard can it be?"
How many of us would dream of going up to a surgeon and saying, "I'm go...
More Articles...
- Morning Roundup - February 2, 2012
- A Closer Look: Incarnation and Christology
- Morning Roundup - February 1, 2012
- Evangelical Convictions: A Conversation with Greg Strand about the Evangelical Free Church's Doctrinal Statement Revision
- Morning Roundup - January 31, 2012
- Monday Is for Missiology: Three Important Church Trends and the Elephant in the Church
- Morning Roundup - January 30, 2012
- Saturday is for Seminars: The D6 Conference in Frisco, TX
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