Tag: change
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Two views of the local church
There are two sides to every coin, aren’t there? I’ve had this post stuck in my head for several weeks– and I think the illustration says it all. Church leaders: Complacency sneaks in. We surround ourselves with people who go to church. We spend a lot of our time at the church. Our perspective becomes…
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The World Doesn’t Change Itself
This weekend the family hosted my friend Andrew Marin. I suppose most people know Andy as a controversial speaker and author who is trying to help the church build bridges with the gay community. I know Andy more as a friend. We met last summer in preparing for National Youth Workers Convention where he was…
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Rethink Church
HT to Sara who left this as a comment for the post, Church of the world and not of the church. I think Mr. Wesley would be proud.
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How do we get to Youth Ministry 3.0?
I’ve been wrestling with the concepts of Marko’s book, Youth Ministry 3.0 for a long time. Actually, before I worked a YS I had been going through a prolonged set of discussions at Romeo saying in a thousand different ways… What I’m doing isn’t working anymore. The problem was simple. I was trained and experienced…
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Loop Artist
Not only is it cool how this artist creates his craft, I think his message matches the theme of this blog. It is possible…
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The Danger of Changes
Whether it’s a business, a school, or a youth ministry or even a blog there is both fun and danger in change. Some would say that half of the fun of change is the danger. Good Catalyst Almost all of the change I deal with is neccesitated by the existing way not meeting expectations and/or…