effective church leadership

*crowd roars*
INNa THA ROIGHT CORNARgh WEEEE HAVE...

CHURCH GROWTH PRINCIPLES!!!!!!

(crowd of 450,000: 'yay!!!!!')

AND INNa THE LIFT CORNARgh WEEEE HAVE...

THE SALVATION ARMEEEEEE

(me and my mum: 'yay!!!!!!')

*ding*

FOIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now, really... that's just a bit silly.

it's not really 'us' verses 'them' because 'us' is 'them' a bit and 'they' are a bit like 'us' and 'we' sorta like 'them' and 'we' agree with 'them' when 'they' say things that 'we' think agree with 'us'

we're all in this together

I'm just struggling with the similarities and differences in principles of function and growth between the 'Church Growth' (movement, group, society, banner, interdenominational strategic focus...???) and the good ol' Salvos.
We're both perhaps lacking some deep, deep theology to provide in-depth analysis of compatibility.
and yet, we've taken a lot of 'Church Growth stuff' on board (often) very happily and posistively.

Any why not?
there's a lot of good there

but is it different good to our good?

BAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA
that's poisitively hilarious!

as if we own good.

God is God.
Our specific call may be unique, and i feel called into this uniquely-called collection of the specifically-called...

but God is God everywhere.

the end

(G. Roberts was right, I know more and more about less and less)

Title:

It's been a while

my apologies

(it was a duck)
-just kidding!

so, how is everyone? good, good.
I probably shouldn't be writing 'cause I'm absolutely exhausted and don't have anything particularly wonderful to say.

oh, Jesus is tops.
that's a pretty good thing to say

It's been an intense couple of weeks. I need a holiday to recover from this holiday.
I had an awesome time, but i think i just overdid it a bit.

it's funny how we can overdo some things

and underdo others

I've been underdoing a few things

There was a whole lotta conviction goin' on at candidates weekend. I've been underdoing some basic disciplines to avoid overdoing them with fearful intentions.
the fear is gone.
so it's time to get on with this

Kingdom biniss is serious biniss.

pray for Linsey Lohan and Paris and Nic Richie

Why? For Heaven's sake, why not?

blessings!
-rach