Archive for September, 2009

Everything ends. Including con…

Everything ends. Including congregations. It’s natural and orderly. But if we don’t produce a new generation of churches, we will fade away.

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$10 Million will easily get us…

$10 Million will easily get us 20 church plants: 6 or 7 will fail, 6 or 7 will survive but be small, and 6 or 7 will become large. Discuss.

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Do you think starting new cong…

Do you think starting new congregations is important for the future of the church? Tell somebody! This week the GC board will discuss.

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The Most Effective Means

The most effective means of helping people find a path to God is a motivated community of people who recently discovered a path themselves.

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Classic Sponge Ball Routine

This is the “out-of-the-box” (which, in my opinion, is the OPPOSITE of “outside-of-the-box”) routine with those silly spongey balls. I sympathize with Joshua Jay when he says (in his awesome book/DVD combo “Complete Magic”) that sponge balls are weird foreign objects that sillify modern magic. (Okay, not his words, but close enough.)

But I couldn’t resist. The things are just too darn fun to play with! So I cranked up some Chili Peppers and put on a show. Enjoy:

In other news, I am working on a formal “Why the General Church Needs to Plant New Churches in New Places” argument. I’m writing it as a paper, but will also be putting together a power point presentation, and maybe a video. As I work this out, I may try just blithering ideas on video here at MacFrazier.com, as a way of getting my thoughts strait. I would love to have your feedback as I do so. So stay tuned….

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