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telosdriven: July 2008
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Wednesday, July 30, 2008. I think people have heard me talk about this before. I read about 15 books at a time and finish about 100/year. Nothing to boast about. I am just that ADD. Recently I have been working through A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman. Here is a quote. Let me know what you think. Failure of Nerve, 14). What is the difference between a peacemonger and a peacemaker?
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telosdriven: Skittles
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Monday, September 15, 2008. Skittles is one or our family's favorite games. Ever noticed that some of simplest games are the best- like who came up with mancala? What are some of your favorite family games? Is napping a game? My family played board games a lot, like scrabble and sorry :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Five Strengths: Ideation, Achiever, Maximi...
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telosdriven: 5 Priorities
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Monday, July 28, 2008. While our core team was in Georgia for n*Rich, we had an opportunity to list the top five priorities of each or our positions. We have five staff members: Lead Pastor, Lead Communicator, Executive Pastor (Admin/Groups), Service Programming Director and Kidstuf Director. 4 Key Leader Recruitment/Development. 1 Series Planning, Sermon Prep. and Delivery. 3 Oversee, d...
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telosdriven: October 2007
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Tuesday, October 09, 2007. Church Plant- Day 7 (335 Days to Launch). God is going on before. Said to pray specific, measurable and unreasonable prayers. When we pray "sun stand still" prayers like Joshua there is no one to blame but God for the results. So we prayed for four things . . . Leadership buy-in for the vision of reaching this community by multiplying the number of churches here.
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telosdriven: Launch Sunday!
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Sunday, September 14, 2008. 5:3oam our trailer was picked up from storage. 6:00am: set-up began and was finished by 7:30am. 10am over 120 people shared an expereince together called Kidstuf and learned that: "God knows everything, so we should learn what He says.". By noon everything was taken down and loaded into the trailer, while our sound system was tuned for the room.
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telosdriven: December 2007
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Tuesday, December 18, 2007. This is one of my favorite poems. It is written by Sister Madeleva. The final wild song of Your birth-night. Can never be written;. The last shining word of Your coming. Can not be said. Rough, slow-minded shepherds will run,. By night to a cave and a cattle shed. And You, beyond bondage of time, without. End or beginning,. Will wake in the arms of a maid,.
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telosdriven: Flannery O'Connor
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Monday, July 28, 2008. O'Connor is one my favorite Catholic writers next to Walker Percy and more recently Mary Doria Russell. Edwin Friedman, author of Friedman's fables, had a similar philosophy. He wrote his fables to induce anxiety. Sometimes you have to shout really loud. Here is a question: Should we shock or induce anxiety in order to jumpstart life-transformation? It's about 45 m...
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telosdriven: February 2008
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Church for church people. People believe that church is for church people not for them. This is an issue of relevance. Less than 10% of our local population finds an evangelical church relevant enough to make attending it regularly a priority. As Jesus walked the streets of ancient. He demonstrated the imminent relevance of God’s voice in the world. We must de...
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telosdriven: November 2007
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Telosdriven is dedicated to communicating ideas that focus the church's spotlight on the compelling message of Christ. Monday, November 26, 2007. Church Planting and Revitalization. Doesn’t church planting divert valuable time, money, and resources that could be used to revitalize the existing church? Why would a church in need of revitalization expend resources on planting a church? When is a church ready to plant another church? 4 Church planting stimulates existing churches. In more cases than not...
