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Imagine that, I'm Rocky Road Ice Cream:
"Unpredictable and wild, you know how to have fun. You're also a trendsetter who takes risks with new things. You know about the latest and greatest - and may have invented it!
You are most compatible with vanilla ice cream."
Late night blog thing- waiting for em to get home....
You Are Vanilla Ice Cream Your personality is anything but "vanilla" You're a risk taker, who's up for anything new. You go well with anyone and fit into any situation. You are most compatible with rocky road ice cream. What flavour are you???
and how about, "because I've planted one this year..."
church planting week @ bob.blog...
Let's talk church planting... Why, why not, how, how not... Maybe I'll get around to writing that long awaited "Why YOU Shouldn't Plant a Church!" :) But first... (If the poll below looks like an amazon ad, my apologies... it's a glitch. Stupid poll... Click here to actually see it) Web Polls b...
Bob,
This is a very interesting post and comment section. I hadn't checked out your blog when this first came out, so I'm glad the comments drew me to it.
I'm curious, have you ever had any feedback from Driscoll on any of the posts you've written?
Some thoughts for Mark Driscoll
Dear Mark, Wow. When you step on a scene, you really know how to make an entrance, don't you? For a couple of years, everyone involved in the emerging church conversation/blogosphere has been wondering "where is Mark Driscoll?" And bang- you don't just start a blog... you open up with both barrel...
Bob I'm confused. Was the picture of Dog the Bounty Hunter you included in this post meant to be proof of chickification in the church, or proof of the need for manly men?
Chickified...
So, I was over at Irish Dave's the other day and noticed he had commented on Driscoll's latest rant about dudes... Mark said: "The problem in the church today is just a bunch of nice, soft, tender, chickafied church boys. 60% of Christians are chicks and the 40% that are dudes are still sort of…c...
John, thanks for mentioning whatyou're been reading. Some of these are on my "to read" list and it's good to get your feedback on them.
We're currently using The Church of Irresistible Influence in our Community Groups. Great book.
Great Reading Resources
I read...A LOT (and I'm a pretty fast reader so it seems really unfair to some of my family and friends)..and sometimes people ask me about either the what or the type of reading I do. So, I don't think I've ever listed my reading process. Here it is...in order of what I read The Bible, Newspap...
I agree with Mark that there are "idiotic ideas, stinky styles, stupid systems, failed facilities [and] terrible technologies" that need to die so more effective ones can replace them.
Yet to describe people, even metaphorically, as "dogs", while at the same time calling them "losers" and "pathetic" crosses the line by at least a mile.
As a pastor I've dealt with plenty of difficult people, and I'm sure I've been the difficult person more than once. But it bums me out that someone with as much influence as Mark would lead people with this kind of example.
hurt people who hurt people
My last post on Driscoll's three types of people (from his book Confessions) got some good comments and discussion, and I wanted to expand a bit... My point with adding "hurt" to his three categories of observers, consumers and participants was to add not another category, but an added dimens...
I dig your blog and was thinking about putting it on my favorites, so since you asked, you're now there.
oh... ONE more thing...
So, remember when I said I'd pretty much accomplished eveything I wanted to get done and the rest was just dessert... Okay, there's ONE more thing. It's silly. It's dumb. You can help. :) I'm so close to not only cracking the top ten on technorati listings for "emerging church" , but I'm also thi...
As a first time church planter, I really appreciate hearing the stories of other church planters about what they went through starting their church, and seeing what God has done in the mean time. Thanks for what you shared. I look forward to learning more about Evergreen.
starting out...
Got this email from someone who read one of my articles: Hi, my name is Lee anne and just wanted to tell you I loved your transparency and simplicity in your article. My husband and I would like to do something similar but are needing that extra push. Could you give a few more details of your exp...
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