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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 2. The Destination
“The church is not the destination any more than the plane and a successful flight are the ultimate destination on your next trip.” I heard Dr. Joy Moore, associate dean for Black Church Studies and...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 3. Four Thousand Shalls
Gordon MacKenzie has written a delightful and compelling book on organizations titled Orbiting the Giant Hairball. For companies (and churches!), the Hairball is MacKenzie’s term for the accumulated...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 4. The Challenge of the Ages
Some time ago, National Geographic magazine included a poster of the most typical human being on earth, a composite representation that interweaves physical features of the single largest demographic...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 8. Where Did It Come From?
The COB and the CT commissioned the TWR from which the CTA was derived. The COB and CT approved the CTA and named the IOT, which developed GC legislation that affects GBGM, GBHEM, GBD, and other...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 12. The Big Rocks
A story in First Things First (Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill) describes a lesson about the use of time. The instructor fills a large jar with big rocks until he cannot...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 18. Who’s in Charge?
The United Methodist Church has no governing board. That fact surprises many United Methodists. As a Bibhop, I receive countless letters that begin, “Why don’t the bishops do something about . . .” and...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 23. Metrics and the...
Vines, branches, seeds, vineyards, farmers, fig trees, harvests, sowers, soils, weeds, roots. Fruitfulness provides a metaphor for many profound aspects of the spiritual life and the Christian journey....
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