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I am off with the youth group to do a little white water. Should be good times. This is the stuff where our youth pastor Aaron Sutton shines.
The first time I did this trip I was 15 years old. Now 25 years later, I have been down the river with hundreds of teens and have seen tons of lives changed and huge decision made.
While I don’t do much with youth, or youth ministry through the year, this is a great time for me as the Lead Pastor to connect with some of young men and women.
Tony Liston is a mentor, friend and guide to many a church planter. Here is an awesome resent post about a few things he has learned by observing church planters:
1. Where God guides, God provides.2. Meeting expectations is second only to managing them.
3. People are gracious: If you make a mistake, admit it and move on.
4. If people don’t like you, it doesn’t matter what you believe.
5. Don’t confuse being a day-dreamer with being a visionary.
6. God only reimburses money you spend wisely.
7. Change is one of the most important traditions you can establish.
8. Never criticize other congregations.
9. Choose who you lose.
10. If you “need” people, you’ll never have a healthy ministry.
Read the awesome insights and descriptions Tony adds HERE>>>
Some friends have been asking, “What in the world is Twitter?”
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:08 PM, <steve@pointway.org> wrote:
Anonymous Complaint about Mark from Steve
To be completely candid, we can divide Mark’s actions into three
categories: wretched, putrid, and wishy-washy. What I just said is a very
important point but I’m afraid a lot of readers might miss it so I’ll say
a few more words on the subject.
This raises another important point: No matter how bad you think Mark’s allegations are, I assure you that they are far, far worse than you think. Mark’s expositors all have serious personal problems. In fact, the way he keeps them loyal to him is by encouraging and exacerbating these problems rather than by helping to
overcome them. I don’t just want to make a point. I don’t just want to catalogue Mark’s swindles and perversions. I’m here to give an alternate solution, a better one. I don’t just ask rhetorical questions; I have
answers. That’s why I’m telling you that Mark once tried convincing me that “the norm” shouldn’t have to worry about how the exceptions feel.
Does he think I was born yesterday? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that Mark will probably respond to this letter just like he responds to all criticism. He will put me down as “smarmy” or “ultra-amoral”. That’s his
standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about him except the most fawning praise.
Mark sometimes has trouble convincing people that the laws of nature don’t apply to him. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few unsavory primates to constate authoritatively that dastardly nitwits make
the best scout leaders and schoolteachers.
Whether or not that trick of his works, it’s still the case that Mark’s grunts actually believe the bunkum they’re always mouthing. That’s because these sorts of polyloquent serpents are idealistic, have no sense of history or human nature, and they think that what they’re doing will improve the world before long. In
reality, of course, if we are to renew those institutions of civil society — like families, schools, churches, and civic groups — that condemn Mark’s hypocrisy, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive
ideology, not by the uppity and obstreperous ideologies that Mark promotes.
I’ll end this letter with a personal invitation to Rev. Mark Bjorlo himself: If you care to respond to what I wrote, please do, especially if you think that I am being inaccurate or unfair. I do not wish to misrepresent you in any way whatsoever. Pax vobiscum.
P.S. This is a joke!!! for some fun see http://www.pakin.org/complaint
Steve Erickson
Acts 20:24
Ok… I know, a ton of you are doing this but I have just recently started twittering. It has been a lot of fun following people I like and or respect. It is an easy way to keep up with what’s going on in other lives. I love social networking stuff. I would love to have TJNers join me in this crazy new way to stay up to speed. So if you attend The Journey North, jump on and join in the fun.
