Here are 8 things that caught my eye this morning.
Most notably: Yesterday was the first Sunday since the split at the Crystal Cathedral. Looks like about 100 people left the building to join Sheila Schuller Coleman and Jim Penner’s new church plant. Attendance at the Cathedral (which changed back to their traditional worship service) rose to about 1,200 (over two services). Take out all the media, out of town visitors and tourists, and they probably had about a hundred people as well.
Anyway… here are some interesting things to get you started in your week… I’d love to hear your comments below…
| Added in Trends on 03/19/2012 Source: The Gospel Coalition |
| The U.S. mobility rate fell to an all-time low last year when only 11.6 percent of Americans changed residences. |
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| Added in Productivity & Time Management on 03/19/2012 Source: the99percent.com |
| Hacking work is all the rage these days, along with tips for managing email, taking notes, and running meetings. But, at a higher level, what can we learn from analyzing the different types of work we do and how we allocate our time? |
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| Added in on 03/19/2012 Source: LeadershipNow.com |
| Teachability plays a huge role in determining the health and consequently the success of an organization. Unhealthy organizations are hindered by politics, confusion, and low morale, resulting in low productivity and high turnover. |
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| Added in Vision & Mission on 03/19/2012 Source: The Gospel Coalition |
| Trevin Wax writes: This month’s issue of Credo magazine is about missions and the church. I was asked to contribute a definition of “the mission of the church” for inclusion in the magazine. It took me a while to think about how to form a definition that showed the relationship between the church’s identity and mission. In the end, this is the definition I offered… |
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| Added in Current Events on 03/19/2012 Source: Reuters |
| After taking a breakaway congregation out of Crystal Cathedral, a daughter of the retired televangelist who built the faltering California mega-church led services on Sunday at a movie theater and urged followers to drop the mudslinging. |
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| Added in Church Planting on 03/19/2012 Source: MAGSays.com |
| Talking to church planters … and giving them advice … is often like herding cats. They are fidgety. Thoughts all over the place. Bursting with passion. Ready to charge hell with a water pistol. I love their energy. I hate their inability to focus. Squirrel! |
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| Added in Lead Pastors on 03/19/2012 Source: The Gospel Coalition |
| If your ministry relationships will be healthy in God’s sight, you must commit to intentionally planting good seeds into the soil of those relationships. This will take understanding, commitment, discipline, and perseverance. |
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| Added in For What It’s Worth on 03/19/2012 Source: DJChuang.com |
| Why does it seem like Christmas is a bigger deal than Easter? I have my own speculations and theories as to the reasons why… |
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Too many topics for one post. Sorry.
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