Archive for November 14th, 2007
What Brian McLaren wants every pastor in America to do about evangelism
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007First, we as church leaders have to encourage people to count conversations rather than conversions. If we focus on counting conversions, we’ll tend to pressure people into making a decision before they’re ready. Instead, if we encourage people to say that conversations count, then relationships develop. Then when people do make a decision, they’ve counted [...]
Balance is Bunk?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The truth is, balance is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream, a vain artifice that offers mostly rhetorical solutions to problems of logistics and economics. The quest for balance between work and life, as we’ve come to think of it, isn’t just a losing proposition; it’s a hurtful, destructive one. … There’s a better [...]
I can relate to the second half of this
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007I’ve never used a computer. I do all my writing on an ancient IBM Selectric. And I do my research in books. Once in a while I’ll hire a college student to pull something off the Internet, if I need an up-to-the-minute statistic or a Lexis/Nexis search or that sort of thing. But that’s as [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Consider the Lilies Support the 120 children who live at LOTV’s Chihuahua, Mexico orphanage as they outreach to 3,000 children this Christmas. Donate online here.