"As we drove away last night (literally through and over exploding fireworks) I shared with Chris such a huge feeling of love for our church community. I feel loved and taken care of. I feel so much love for these people and I feel like I am helping to take care of them."
Karli on community
I found myself preaching uphill yesterday...
preaching uphill...
More wisdom for we bloggers...
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
- Edward R. Murrow
"I've been sitting here for an hour and a half, trying to organize my thoughts, trying to find some words. The fact is, I just have too many thoughts and feelings swirling around right now... I'm driven to distraction.
So, with that in mind, I'll beg your forgiveness and just give some general thoughts as to what I hope for evergreen, our church community, in this our third year of existence."
what I wish...
"When someone new comes into the community, they hear the general call to everybody to be a participant. But as we look out and see that some are choosing to remain in other categories, we ask why, we see them individually and address their actual situation if possible.
And yeah- that's a lot more work."
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More wisdom for we bloggers...
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
- Margaret Halsey
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"The idea that we should teach dialectically (with dialogue) is rooted in the very teaching style of Jesus, exemplified throughout the book of Acts, is nowhere forbidden in the NT commands/descriptions regarding preaching and is just plain solid pedagogy.
To say somehow that the two choices are either 1. "long-winded old school Bible preach[ing]" or 2. artsy collective ignorance is just plain dumb- a false antithesis that deserves to be called out."
Helpful and not so...
"We prayed last night.
We gathered as a community (actually, just some of us... it's summer, I guess!) and prayed for about an hour and a half.
We met in the unchanging chapel at a small baptist church here in town where I used to be youth pastor..."
prayed...
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