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To catch fish, learn to think like them by Rick Warren
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Evaluating your church on purpose (part 2) by Tom Holladay In the last issue, Pastor Tom Holladay showed how numbers can help diagnose a church’s health and determine whether it’s fulfilling its purposes. In this issue, he provides six church health indicators that you can use at your church. |
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"Just as saltwater fish exist their entire lives in an ocean without becoming saturated with salt, Jesus ministered in the world without being of the world." - Rick Warren |
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"I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say." - John 12:49-50 (NLT) |
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2008 Purpose Driven Small Group Conferences - Don’t miss next year’s Saddleback small group conferences (in Georgia, California, and Missouri). Speakers will include Rick Warren, Steve Gladen, and Leonard Sweet. Sermon News - Get free sermon illustrations from the news. You can get three a week e-mailed to you for free, and you can get access to the entire database for a fee. Free, online seminary lectures - Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has a variety of seminary lectures online – including a new series of guest lectures by Paige Patterson on preaching. Pray 21 - This organization is trying to partner teens and adults together for prayer. Get info on the program and free resources on this site. |
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How Saddleback uses students to lead worship - Manda Gibson Free online tool for making Jesus-focused disciples - Vipool Patel In single day, church plants 24,000 Purpose Driven books in S.C. prisons - Hannah Elliott Journey through the wall - Pete Scazzero Staying fresh for life - Dwayne Moore The power of the mind - Mary Southerland |
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Wal-Mart is the United States’ and the world’s largest employer with more than 1.6 million employees. Another three million people have jobs directly dependent upon business by Wal-Mart. Source: The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman (Penguin Press, 2006) “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” —Robert Louis Stevenson “Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.” —Bill Cosby “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” —Andre Gide “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.” —Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma” |
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