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THE BLOGGING CHURCH: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs (TBC) by Brian Bailey with Terry Storch

 
Brian Bailey and Terry Storch make the bold claim: ‘Blogging is a revolution in communication, community, and authentic conversation; a revolution that churches cannot afford to ignore’.     I think they’re right. 
I hadn’t come across blogging before […]

Welcome back to Atlanta.
I’m in day three of the Seminar and am listening right now to a Bishop of the US Methodist Church share on church planting.  He’s just said that if no-one has come to faith in the last year, a church ought to take the word church out of its name.
I wonder how many churches back in […]

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My wireless connection is working and I can tell you a little about World Methodism’s ‘Eighth International Evangelism Seminar’ which is happening here over the next week.
Before I set off from home someone had said to me that they wouldn’t normally put the words Methodism and evangelism together.  Well, it appears they are […]

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I’m away now for the best part of two weeks.  Tomorrow I fly to the World Methodism Evangelism Seminar which takes place in Atlanta.  (I have to concentrate really hard to get all the words for this in the right order.)
There’ll be people arriving from around the world and I look forward to hearing […]

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Around a year ago I used an online church planter survey after reading a book mentioning the Emerging Leadership Initiative ELI): http://www.elichurchplanting.com/.  (I’m sorry but I can’t remember the book at the moment but I do recommend the survey; I found it helpful for thinking and praying about my future.) 
A few weeks ago I received a feedback form asking […]

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Here’s something that is irksome to me.   
Fran LaMattina is a pioneer of coaching in a church context and she says that, from her experience, only twenty percent of people are coachable.  She says: ‘I believe that you’re really only coachable if you surrender yourself to the Holy Spirit and let him change your life.  Coaching involves personal life change, […]

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Back in April I mentioned that Christine and I broke a chocolate fast by visiting Plaisir du Chocolat. 
In the last week though, we heard that it had gone into administration.
C’est terrible! 
A gap had opened up in the chocolate market and needed to be filled, so I got in touch with Hotel Chocolat from whom […]

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Yesterday, I met with my friend, John.  We hadn’t seen each other for quite some time but we had a great conversation about what God is doing and some possibilities for the city of Edinburgh.
As well as this he left me with some websites and names to check out.  One name is Catherine Rohr, […]