Tag: church
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Sign up for a New Free Webinar on Leadership
My friend Kevin sent me the URL to this video on leadership. Some days it feels too familiar. On Friday, I’ll be launching my second webinar – with better sound this time! The official blurb reads: Leadership in the time Between The command and control model of leadership yields significant results in certain contexts –…
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Changing to a wide angle lens
Even critical, world changing events can feel remote when viewed on the television screen. However, when friends or family may be involved, emotional intensity shifts dramatically. While I have been following, in a general way, the events in Egypt I have noticed a recent increase in my attention. Part of it – and perhaps this…
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Church People are the Reason People stay with the church
So I asked myself, “If it is true that the church can be arrogant, judgemental, boring and all the rest why would anyone want to be connected? Why would I?” From a lifetime in the church, I cannot argue with Adam Hamilton‘s assessment, “Some of the most insensitive, critical, judgmental and mean-spirited people I’ve known…
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Church People are the Reason People Do Not Come to Church
As the Emerging Spirit project winds down I have been re-visiting some of the early research findings that we probably did not mine extensively enough. We abbreviated them to the sentence “People outside the church find religious people to be judgemental, arrogant and unwilling to listen.” We later tacked on that they also find much…
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We need both sanctuary and launching pad
We stand on the edge of a world about to be radically reshaped in many ways. The new church is being called to be a place out of step but in tune, out of step with all with which we are bombarded daily but in tune with God’s vision. The new church, like the ark,…
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