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1.    YOU ARE THE RESOURCE!    
 

>From: David Mains <info@teamsundays.org>

Being from Chicago, it's been a real education watching the Cubs' manager turn around the thinking of the city regarding "the lovable losers. " I didn't come here to lose,  said Dusty Baker early on. When told about  the curse of the Billy Goat,  he responded, "I don't believe
in curses."  Basically, Baker has brought an attractive, no-nonsense approach to his role that expects good results in a reasonable amount of time.

I've seen this same attitude demonstrated by a pastor who recently moved to this area. He came to a church with a record that wasn't all that unlike the Cubs. But with a straightforward and optimistic approach, he now has his congregation excited about who they are and the growing number of people coming to Christ because of their lives.

Some of us probably need to do some self-examination regarding our leadership style. Certainly we don't want to be seen as "lovable losers."  Let's pray daily that in a reasonable amount of time god will help us become part of a winning team.

Have a good week, David R. Mains
http://sundaysolutions.com
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3.    40 DAYS BEYOND THE VEIL
 

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>From: "Norman Wretlind" <normanwretlind@msn.com>

We have been training churches on the east coast to host parties by doing our unique "live training parties" as the training model.  It has been extremely effective.  Christians come to a home that is semi-decorated for Christmas.  We pretend we are the owners of that home and they are our neighbors.  We explain that most of them are nonbelievers who don't really know the true meaning of Christmas, but were not threatened to gather with other neighbors to celebrate at our home.  Then we simply enact a complete party with both pre-evangelistic aspects as well as the more overt evangelistic testimonials etc.  Thus, they are experiencing exactly what their neighbors will feel in December when they host their own party.   We follow the party section with the 45 minute wrap up reviewing their handbooks and the 23 minute Training Video.  Now they have both experienced the party and mentally replayed how it was all put together.  They are ready to duplicate it in December!  

These are the most effective training "seminars" we have ever done.  We are now beginning to plan for next fall 2004.  It would be a great joy to host these live parties all over Illinois for your churches.  Any thoughts about that?  Call me on our mobile: 303-870-8995.  We will be "on the road" hosting parties in NC, IN, and Texas until the first week in December. We offer bulk discounts for churches.

Norm Wretlind, NeighborHope Ministries
11455 W. Belleview Ave, Littleton, CO 80127
norm@neighborhope.com 
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>From: "Wayne Pederson" <wayne@missionamerica.org>

Gerry McGovern writes in MarketingProfs.com:

“80% of business people choose email as their primary communications tool.  In the past, business was often based around contacts, lunches, and handshakes.  Less business is done that way today.

80% of business people believe email is a more valuable communication tool that the phone.  The top three reasons people prefer email over phone are:
    1.      It allows communication with multiple parties
    2.      It enables more rapid communication.
    3.      It allow for communication to be formally recorded.

Clearly, email best suits a changing business climate characterized by geographically distributed workgroups, extreme mobility, the need for rapid information dissemination, and a desire for reusable business records.

One of the Internet myths was that it no longer matters how you right, that good grammar and proper spelling are now irrelevant.  The exact opposite is true.  It has never been more important to write well.  It has never been more important to communicate in a clear, simple, short way.

Think about how you read.  If the first couple of paragraphs are not relevant, you switch off. “
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Wayne Pederson, Mission America Coalition
Box 13930, Palm Desert, CA 92255
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7.    STATE OF THE CHURCH
     
 

Center for Spiritual Renewal

Ten Observations Concerning the State of the Church

 

We have observed certain trends developing in the Church and have condensed these trends into ten statements which summarize what we see taking place. It needs to be noted again that these observations pick up on the positive direction of the Church. It needs to be said that while these are positive trends, there could be listed other statistics and characterizations (a la George Barna) that seem to indicate the Church is heading in a very different direction. This seeming disparity points up the fact of a growing sense of a sifting and separation that is beginning to take place in the Body of Christ.

 

1. Prayer is a growing force in the Church.

 

It has been said, and on good authority, that there are more Christians praying today
than ever before; not just in greater numbers, but with a higher percentage of involvement.

 

2. Humility is characterizing more attitudes.
 

The scriptural admonition of 2 Chronicles 7:14 is being taken seriously by many believers. The sin of spiritual pride is being recognized and confessed.

 

3. Repentance is accepted as a necessity for Christians.
 

With the recognition and confession of spiritual pride comes the understanding of the need to repent of our sins and failures both personally and corporately.

 

4. Personal purity is recognized as of primary importance.
 

There is a growing sense that Christians will never be able to impact their world as they should unless they are people of clean hands and pure hearts.

 

5. Proper relationship with God and others is receiving greater emphasis.
 

A return to the precepts of the Great Commandment is giving an order and confidence to relationships that results in a joyful sense of fulfillment.

 

6. Spiritual integrity is becoming the aim of more Christians.
 

The scriptural mandate of matching behavior with belief and ethics with doctrine is being seen as a moral absolute for those striving for a new level of spiritual maturity.


  7. Scriptural unity is gaining momentum.
Christians are disregarding peripheral differences such as race, gender, age, culture, and denomination and are coming together based on their relationship with Jesus Christ.

 

  8. Social responsibility is taking on new importance.
There is a growing realization that it is not possible to love God passionately without being driven by that passion to do whatever is necessary to meet the needs of others.


  9. Human personalities are being de-emphasized.
There is a greater desire to give the glory to God and to lift up Jesus Christ rather than cater to human egos and focus on personal accomplishments.

 

10. Anointing for ministry is touching a broader spectrum of believers.
 

The Spirit of God is being poured out on “all flesh” and many unknowns including women, older persons and younger persons are being raised up to do powerful ministry.

 

Tell Us What You Think.

 

What is your perspective on what God is doing in the Church today? Do you identify with these observations or do you see things differently? We would like to hear from you.
Please take a few minutes to respond.
    
Center for Spiritual Renewal, PO Box 3986, Cleveland,TN 37320 €  (423) 478-7078, E-mail: cfsr123@aol.com € Robert E. Fisher, Executive Director - http://www.spiritualrenewal.net
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>From: "CityCommunityMin" <CityCommunityMin@McLeodUSA.net>

        Churches Help Communities Understand What It Means
                   To Be A Nation "Under God."

Churches are using a new poster to reach their communities with what it means to be "one nation under God." Gateways to Better Education is a ministry (and a member of Mission America) promoting legally appropriate ways public schools can teach students the message of the Bible and lessons on the contributions Christianity has made to the world. It has distributed 200,000 patriotic posters to help schools teach the Pledge of Allegiance and clarify the phrase "under God." (View the poster at http://www.gtbe.com/catalog.htm)

"The poster's explanation of 'under God' sticks with the facts," explains Eric Buehrer, president of Gateways to Better Education. "It is an historical fact that the Founders of our country believed their freedoms came from God."

To explain the phrase, "under God," the poster reads, "Our Founders understood that the government does not give us our freedom. Our freedom ultimately comes from God, and the government was established to secure that God-given freedom. The Declaration of Independence states, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness-that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men..."

Churches and Schools Use the Poster

Churches, schools, teachers, and parents across the country are ordering the posters. For example, Mission Hills church in Mission Viejo, California donated 64,000 posters to the local PTA of the Santa Ana Unified School District so every student and teacher could receive one as part of the district's 9-11 memorial last year.

"Churches are giving posters to all the children in their Sunday school programs or as a gift to veterans for Veterans Day," says Buehrer.

Steve Makin, a history teacher in Paramount, California, used the poster as part of his daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance over the intercom. As part of his daily announcements, he read the text of the poster to the entire school one morning.

Darrell Holmquist, a high school teacher in New Lenox, Illinois, uses the poster to help his students understand the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. "Many questions have come up about the meaning of the various phrases in the Pledge," explains Homlquist. "I am able to answer every question courtesy of the explanations on the poster."

The U.S. Department of Education reports that a 1998 civics test given to a national sampling of fourth-graders revealed that one out of three (34%) did not know what it meant to pledge allegiance to the flag. Gateways' poster is changing that. In New Jersey, one PTA distributed over 500 posters to students and received a thank-you note from a student that read: "Mom and dad really liked it because now I know what I'm saying."

As a new school year is about to begin, the controversy still simmers regarding the appropriateness of having children recite the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase "one nation under God." On June 11, 2003, the State Attorneys General unanimously asked the Supreme Court to review the Pledge of Allegiance case. This was in response to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision June 26, 2002, in Newdow v. United States of America and Elk Grove Unified School District, that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional, and their decision in February of this year not to rehear the case. Legal observers anticipate the Supreme Court will take up the case this school year. The decision directly affects 9.6 million students in nine western states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, and Washington).

The 11"x22" posters are available online at www.gtbe.com; or by calling (800) 929-1163; or by writing to Gateways to Better Education, P.O. Box 514, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0514. Minimum order of 4 posters; 4-9 posters are $4.00 each; 10-49 posters are $3.00 each; 50+ are $1.50 each. (Shipping and handling is included. CA residents add 7.75% sales tax.)

Contact: Eric Buehrer - (949) 586-5437 - ebuehrer@gtbe.org
To view and order the poster, go to http://www.gtbe.com/catalog.htm.
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>From: John / Anita Armstrong <JohnA1949@aol.com>

Here is the article by Dave Roper . . . Amen to his direction!!!

UNNECESSARY THINGS

"Satan has the intention of detaining us with unnecessary things and thus keeping us from those that are necessary. Once he has gained an opening in you of a handbreadth, he will force in his whole body together with sacks full of useless questions."

 --Luther, Instruction from the Saints to the Church in Erfurt (1522)

 Warm-up: Psalm 131

I was looking at some of the clever, wonderful, unused books on my library shelves the other day and thinking back to another era when I was a much younger man. Back then I envisioned myself spending twenty years or so of my life ramping up my theological knowledge, and then another twenty getting that knowledge organized. The demonstrable, the provable, the definable loomed large in my mind.

As I've gotten older, however, I've learned to be more comfortable with what I don't know and will never know until I get to heaven. Like Israel's poet, I no longer "concern myself with things too wonderful [1] for me," for most things are beyond my ken-- what a friend of mine calls the "rebuff of mystery," the humiliation we bear that marks the limits of our proud minds.[2]

I find myself more open to mystery and uncertainty these days; I'm able to embrace more ambiguity. My questions are rarely true or false, but multiple-choice. As I explain to others, I believe more ardently now than ever before, but in fewer and fewer things.

There are things I believe with all my heart--the Apostle's Creed wraps up most of them,[3] I think--but other, more remote aspects of theology that once dominated my thoughts don't weigh on my mind anymore. Chesterton said that angels fly because they take themselves lightly. I'm trying to learn how to fly.

The main thing for me now is not to know the answers, but to know God, made real and personal in Jesus. I pray for David's spirit, his willingness to "wait on the LORD." I find that few things are necessary these days, "really only one" (Luke 10:42).  

One of the by-products of this shift is that I no longer have the urge to mold people to my theological presuppositions. I can be more tolerant [4] of those that disagree with me; I can let them be. Just because they don't agree with me doesn't mean they're wrong.

Another result is that I find myself more open to Christians that are not exactly my kind. It's with "all the saints" that we know all the dimensions of God's love, Paul reminds us.[5] I can learn from all of them.

Something happened to me some years ago that reinforced my thinking along these lines. I was a student then at the Graduate Theological Union, a consortium of seminaries in Berkeley, California. One of the schools was a seminary in which Jesuit priests are prepared. Though not Roman Catholic, I took most of my classes there.

One winter I enrolled in a tutorial with Dr. John Huesman, a Jesuit priest and ranking Hebrew scholar. I expected to learn from Fr. Huesman, but I learned a good deal more than I expected.

One cold, windy afternoon, we were sitting at the kitchen table in his tiny apartment reading Isaiah 53. As I began to read the text, I looked up into the good doctor's eyes, saw them glisten and tears began to flow. He was weeping, not over my translation (which doubtlessly grieved him), but over the truth.

"Roper," I thought to myself, "You've read this passage many times, but not once have you wept over the Suffering Servant. You have much to learn from this man."

Emerson's words come to mind: "Every man is in some way my superior." In that I can learn from him. This is especially true of those whom God considers his intimate friends. I can learn devotion and holiness from them, even if they're not exactly my kind.

DHR
 
[1] The Hebrew word means "transcendent," and "includes the recognition of the limits of one's own power to conceptualize and comprehend" (Jenni-Westerman, Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament).

[2] The Church Father, Ireneaus, pointed out that the chief difference between orthodoxy and heresy is that orthodoxy is rooted in paradox and mystery. Heresy, on the other hand, is rooted in clarity and precision.

[3] The Apostles' Creed dates a half-century or so from the last writings of the New Testament and incorporates what C. S. Lewis called "Mere Christianity."

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic (universal) church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

[4] I'm using "tolerance" here in it's original meaning of "forbearance." "Tolerance" now has a whole new set of meanings. It means, among other things, that we must tolerate every action or belief no matter how absurd or obscene. We cannot be principled, nor can we have informed moral convictions these days. To do so is to be declared "intolerant," out of touch, phobic, and, above all, mean-spirited.

[5] Ephesians 3:18

David & Carolyn Roper, Idaho Mountain Ministries
2503 Bruins Circle, Boise, ID 83704
Shepherds Rest: 208-634-4214
E-mail: dcroper@msn.com
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The malls are decked with holiday decorations, and while many people are still bracing for the myriad of Christmas programs and celebrations, it's not too early to start planning for the new year-and how your church will make a difference in 2004.  

Yes, Christmas events draw a crowd, but often they're the so-called, "CEO's" (Christmas and Easter Only) attendees. The beginning of the new year is perhaps a more strategic time for outreach. In January, churches typically attract true seekers: people who, in honor of the new year, have made a "resolution" to seek spirituality, Christianity or a regular faith experience-in other words, religion-in their lives.

As a result, this season is an excellent time to offer seminars, classes or other programs designed to address your community's felt needs. As you pray and think about how your church will reach more in 2004, consider these ideas:

SIMPLE LIVING:  Capitalizing on the current trend, offer a class in simple living. Promote it as the "Lifestyle Garage Sale: Getting Rid of the Junk." Using life-mapping, priority assessments or other tools, invite congregation members and the surrounding community to simplify their lives and focus on priorities.  

Kick off the class with a "lifestyle garage sale," encouraging people to not just unclutter their attics for the sale, but consider how they can eliminate the other distracting "junk" in their lives. Donate the proceeds to a local food bank or homeless shelter.

Other common New Year's themed needs include weight loss, financial planning and reprioritizing life. Using these themes, other great sermon series ideas would be "Losing the Weight," with sermons on stress, guilt, and anger, or a series on "Making Great Choices," with sermons on choosing to be a better parent, make better financial decisions or getting in shape.

FIT FOR LIFE:  Does your church building sit empty most of the week? Offer a weight-loss support group, senior health or regular fitness class (aerobics, Pilates, etc.) at your church and invite the community to attend. Keep the cost low or, better yet, free. Your church can demonstrate its concern for the whole person-not only the spiritual-and it's an easy way to encourage unbelievers to experience the unconditional care of your church.

EXPLORING CHRISTIANITY:  Many excellent curricula are now available for leading seeker small groups. Offer a six-week class for people interested in exploring Christianity and promote it in your local paper with intriguing questions: Who was Jesus? How can you know for certain that you're going to heaven? Make sure the classes are not high pressure; are open and honest; and are a welcoming place to authentically explore the Christian faith. Encourage worshippers to invite their friends, but the group should consist primarily of unbelievers.

FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE:  A multiple- or one-night financial management seminar for your community is another effective way to reach out in early 2004. Relevant topics like getting out of debt, planning for retirement, saving for college, living on a fixed income and thriving as a single-income family are all subjects that, if well promoted, will definitely draw a crowd. When your church shows your surrounding community it cares about the issues that are important to them, you begin to build a platform for understanding and connection.

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14.    BOOK SCAN: PIVOTAL PRAYER
 

(Praying for Nations)
 

A Pivotal Prayer to Make a Difference