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Archive for January, 2008

You asked…

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

PART II

Chris asks (and also wins the award for run on sentence of the week):
“What does Dressing for the Wedding look like when you are 300-400 people and the offerings are low and you are the only paid staff even though I have 10 committed staff people that work a min. of 20 hours [...]

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You asked…

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

PART 1
Dottie B. wants to know:
How about something re: other pastors in your church? What makes them such a great team?
Dottie, I could type for days and still not scratch the surface of all the things I love about the team God has built here at Elevation. I won’t even try to be exhaustive. [...]

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My Cup Runneth Over

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I asked you to send me some topics to blog about and man, did you come through. Thanks so much.
Not only are there a lot of them, a lot of them are actually very good.
I’ll be hammering out some answers for the rest of the week, and some of the questions that I can’t get [...]

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Audio Blog - Installment 6

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Eat the Fish, Leave the Bones, that’s the title of this week’s audio blog on Elevation Church Best Practices. You really never know what you’re going to get in one of these things..and neither do we. We sit down with a direction of where we’d like to take the conversation and let the tape roll.
Typically [...]

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I’m in a bit of a blogging rut. Will you help me?
Send me a topic or two that you’d like to see me blog about.
(Nothing too deep please. I’m really trying to keep my word count down these days. Ie. I can’t explain the man-child in Revelation chapter 12. Thanks for understanding.)
I’ll devote a few [...]

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Cut and Paste vs. Inside Out

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

A recap of yesterday’s main idea:
Effective and lasting ministries are not built by cutting and pasting…
They are birthed from the inside out.
In the last 2 years I’ve gotten better at the fine art of filtering. We refer to this as eating the fish and leaving the bones (check out next week’s audio blog for more [...]

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Mr. Potato Head Ministry

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

For the first few years of my ministry, I felt an awful lot like Mr. Potato Head.

I was determined to learn as much as I could from as many people as I could.
So I did what you’re supposed to do:
Study mentors, devour books, track with conferences… watch, listen, learn.
I gained invaluable exposure to infinite [...]

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