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Target Groups Are For Wussies.
In church planting circles and training camps, it’s common practice to “define a target demographic” for your church plant.  While I think you should be aware of the demographics in your focus area, I think gearing your church for one particular group of people is useless. Now…your church will draw a particular type of people…at [...]
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
One of my spiritual gifts is discernment. I often have supernatural insight into the nature of situations and into the intentions of people. There are often people with evil intentions that hang around baby churches, looking to devour it and it’s people. Early on in Harmony history, I pointed one out, and he’s no longer [...]
Stream of Consciousness
Here’s a few thoughts from my head. Beware. The first Harmony wedding is on the books! It went pretty smoothly yesterday…. Except I made everyone stand the whole time. I never let them sit down. Whoops! Had a bit of spiritual warfare this morning. Not sure if it was me alone, or within the body, but [...]
The Gospel-Driven Church
Yesterday, I headed to Raleigh and Vintage 21 with Pablo for an Acts29 Network luncheon. It was wonderful and uplifting,as usual, and I really learned a lot. I’ll probably total it up in a future post. But for now, I really want to key in on something that Tyler Jones from Vintage21 brought up: the [...]
When I Think About My Jesus….
This is the video from Sunday night. We gave all the married couples a gift certificate to a restaurant and told them to go on a date. Some of the rest of us watched their kids at an event we lovingly called “Trailer Park”. We grilled hot dogs, had crafts, played video games, reenacted David [...]