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I just read this on another blog, and got permission to share it. From Andrew Root: “Andrew Root (photo by Courtney Perry) Hello Youth Ministry friends, I’m sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled blog reading, but I have broken into transmission to offer you an opportunity. I wanted to get before you the chance to…
Thanks for stopping by. This is the place where I process ideas having to do with youth ministry, discipleship, church life, marketing, technology and other general topics. I am a pastor and teacher at St. Peter’s Anglican Church and have been doing ministry long enough to know that there are lots of ways to do it.…
I just read the intro to the Youth Worker Journal where Chap Clark gives his views on discipleship. He starts his thoughts quoting how Gordon McDonald angered him twenty years ago with the phrase “teenage discipleship doesn’t happen.” I guess I am much like Chap, because I have the same response to his post. I’m…
I just read an article on the Fuller Youth Ministry blog about the middle 70%. Their contention is that the thriving 15% get a lot of attention and the struggling 15% get a lot of attention, but the middle 70% don’t get much attention. There are most likely right about that, and I’m not sure…
There is a great post by Donald Miller (one of my favorite authors). Please go read it for yourself. He tackles two huge issues for the church today. 1. Do you have to attend church on Sunday morning in the building that has a cross to be considered in fellowship with other believers? 2. Is…
In the business world, if someone claims to have control over something unrelated to their product or even something that is just beyond control they are laughed out of the industry. For example, if I said I can make one million people buy the iPad or make the same number of people hate Mark Oestreicher,…
I’ve spoken about discipleship for a while, and I usually begin most of those talks with two questions that qualify discipleship as the type of relationship that invests the kingdom in someone else through a close relationship. In other words, what Jesus did with his disciples. The first question: “How many of you have been…
I haven’t blogged for a while and have enjoyed the break. Much has happened since then, but here are the highlights: 1. Reconciled with my parents – For a while I didn’t think this would ever happen, but through a miraculous turn of events, we have decided to be in each other’s lives again. 2.…
I have been reading in the blogosphere a lot about how the economy will impact the church and I had a thought this morning while driving into church. About 3 years ago, I served a church that was in an economic crisis. The church had made good plans, but it found itself in a hard…
I just got home from the AMIA Winter Conference and was so glad to see my family again. This was my second in attendance and I think I learned just as much as the year before, which is really great. What I learned: 1. There are a lot of details that go into one of…
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