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October 24 On Thinking Big Enough“If you’re working on a problem you can solve in your own lifetime, you’re not thinking big enough.”
-- Kansan Wes Jackson, quoted Oct 21, 2009 on NPR June 06 A definition of the particular church"[The local church is] a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord. In obedience to Scripture they organize under qualified leadership, gather regularly for preaching and worship, observe the biblical sacraments of baptism and communion, and are unified by the spirit, are disciplined for holiness, and scattered to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission as missionaries to the world for God's glory and their joy." -- Pastor Mark Driscoll, in his book Vintage Church May 14 As Ambassadors "We regard our involvement in....mission as an adventure, are prepared to take risks, and are anticipating surprises as the Spirit guides us into fuller understanding. This is not opting for agnosticism, but for humility. It is, however, a bold humility -or a humble boldness. We know only in part, but we do know. And we believe that the faith we profess is both true and just, and should be proclaimed. We do this, however, not as judges or lawyers, but as witnesses; not as soldiers, but as envoys of peace; not as high-pressure salespersons, but as ambassadors of the Servant Lord." -- David Bosch in Transforming Mission March 27 Personal Core Competencies“Get beyond your core competencies.
Don't be limited by your own limits. Look for how others use their
core competencies and discover how to integrate and partner with them – and together do great things for God.”
- Ryan Walls
December 08 Save or Savor?"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the
world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the
day." -- ee cummings (with hat tip to James Ayers for the quote) October 15 Singing Your Song with Your Whole Heart"Find out
what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then
sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will
be in the singing." -- Robert Henri, The Art
Spirit May 07 CacophonyOn Microsoft's innovation culture: "I think Microsoft tends to err on the side of having less groupthink and more cacophony than most other places." -- Steve Ballmer, MS CEO. Prevailing Intelligence"What was the purpose of his pilgrimage? To make a new intelligence prevail." -- Wallace Stevens
July 31 Regardless of the consequences"Faith is not trying to
believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do
something regardless of the consequences" -- Sherwood Eddy July 19 The Perfect Mission FieldMark Stephenson has shared an excerpt from his book, "Web-Empower Your Church: Unleashing the
Power of Internet Ministry," which is due out in January 2007 by Abingdon Press. It's an eloquent statement on "The Perfect Mission Field" - which turns out to be the
Internet. He says,
If we were going to design the perfect mission field here is what it would be:
March 15 When spiders unite"When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion."
-- Quoted by Robert Ficken, The History of Washington (State), UW Press, 1989 March 13 Seize this very minute"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute: March 10 Ushering in the future"At the intersections of each other's stories the future is born." -- Andre Codrescu, Romanian author, Louisiana State University (hat tip to Brian Lennstrom) February 25 If you want to build a ship...“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea” – Antoine de Saint Exupery February 23 The Kingdom always lies beyond us"It helps now and then,
to step back and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection,
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future Promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and do it very well.
It may be incomplete, a step along the way,
an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders,
ministers, not messiahs.
We are Prophets of a future not our own."
-- Archbishop Oscar Romero, El Salvador February 22 No Effort is Without Error and Shortcoming"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; … who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
--Teddy Roosevelt January 11 These people are revolutionaries"There is a new breed of Christ-follower in America today. These are
people who are more interested in being the Church than in going to church. They
are more eager to produce fruit for the kingdom of God than to become
comfortable in the Christian subculture. They are focused on the seven spiritual
passions that facilitate their growth as genuine people of God and citizens of
the kingdom. These people are Revolutionaries." -- "Revolution" by George Barna December 15 The wisdom of the crowd"Research is finding that often a group's average answer to a common
challenge is a much more accurate than most individuals' answers. A
recent guess-the-m&m's-in-a-jar experiment in Campus Crusade found
that the group average was more accurate than 93% of the individual
estimates." -- Keith Seabourn November 17 The Best Effort"What's the best effort? The B.E.S.T. effort is what's happening!
Networking for OutcomesYou don't build a network for the sake of networking - you build it for outcomes. -- Phill Butler, director, visionSynergy November 04 Brains light up with cooperation"Scientists have discovered that the
small, brave act of cooperating with another person,of choosing trust
over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the breain light up
with quiet joy." -- Natalie Angier, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, describing a recent study of the effects of behavior on brain chemistry August 26 Love amidst realities of our differences“The ultimate goal is not just to get along with each other [as Christians],
but to strengthen the mission of God to the world. Our witness to the power
of the gospel of Jesus Christ must flow through our love for one another.
In a world where people kill each other over differences, we are called to
love friends and enemies midst the realities of our differences.” -- Rev Gary Demarest August 24 What Jesus Came For"Jesus didn't come to make us Christian - He came to make us truly human." -- Hans Rookmaker Suddenly a man alone"I
think to myself, I'm 36 years old and rotting in front of a television
set... I snap off the tube, and all those emotions that have been
sluicing into my veins, all the opinions and ideas that I have mistaken
for my own, zip dizzily up into the atmosphere, and I am suddenly a man
alone on a fold-out couch in the empty darkness of an add-on room."
-- Poe Ballantine,
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