My office is tidy Friday, mysteriously messy on Monday. Here’s what I found today! 1. Box of Discipleship books. Thanks to Al Giles who helped us get a nice discount on copies of Building a Discipling Culture. We’re going to have a discipleship roundtable discussion with Al on January 17th. If you’re in the LancasterContinue reading “Box of books, Background Checks, Planbooks – Monday Messy Office Report – 12/8/14”
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That time I accidentally said “fart” in my State of Faith Church sermon…and some other things as well
As I mentioned last week, this past Sunday I gave my State of the Church address. As you’ll read below I talked about discipleship and simplicity, but also farts. Yeah, you read that title right. Farts. But I didn’t talk about it on purpose. Fast forward to minute 19:00, and listen in from there. RightContinue reading “That time I accidentally said “fart” in my State of Faith Church sermon…and some other things as well”
Follow up to “If Jesus had a scorecard…”
We had a great sermon discussion yesterday, with lots of people sharing about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. So let’s continue the discussion. One of the things that concerns me is that we can get excited discussion things for an hour or so on Sunday, but then the busyness of theContinue reading “Follow up to “If Jesus had a scorecard…””
If Jesus had a scorecard, he wouldn’t be counting the believers
Ed Stetzer recently shared the following story: Last year, Caroline Inglis was on the verge of an historic feat. No high school golfer, male or female, had ever captured the Oregon state title four consecutive years. Inglis won the class 5A state tournament her freshman, sophomore, and junior years. There seemed very little doubt thatContinue reading “If Jesus had a scorecard, he wouldn’t be counting the believers”
How do you feel about job evaluations?
It is summertime, and among many other things we do every summer at Faith Church (like the 4th of July picnic at Long’s Park, VBS and summer camp at Twin Pines), we also do staff evaluations. Usually I bring along a ministry volunteer that serves with the particular staff member, and we talk with themContinue reading “How do you feel about job evaluations?”
Church is a business?
I ordered a book today. One of my pastoral friends has highly recommended it, and it can’t come soon enough. Why? I get so freaking frustrated because I am running a business, the success of which is measured by numbers. Those numbers are decreasing. That gets me upset, even though I know that Jesus isContinue reading “Church is a business?”
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