The Shoestring Conspiracy – Ministry Ideas
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What follows are recent excerpts of some of my blogs: From Transformational Communities Transformational Values from The Fellowship of Jo… A Mission Statement on Transformation Real Transformation From and To The Old Shopping Center From the Clogger Blogger: Linking and Cross-Linking One of the great advant… Something to Say The bottom line of blogging is…
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I borrowed this from myself – posting originally to "The Shoestring Conspiracy." Shoestrings Are Cheap I wrote a while back about broken shoestrings. Now, I must confess something. I seldom replace them. I tie frayed ends together and make do. I have several pair of really nice shoes with broken strings that I…
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mikWe couldn’t understand why the roof of our church building kept leaking and would not hold a repair. Finally, we called in the big guns and they confirmed what we had suspected for a while, majoy truss failure. The whole thing would need to be engineered again and structurally rebuilt from the inside out. It…
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The Shoestring Conspiracy—Urgency Urgency is a poor substitute for priority. When we establish an understanding of what is truly important based upon God’s abiding principles and mission, we need to stick with it. The reality is that the moment we prioritize our ministries, diversions will emerge,…
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The Shoestring Conspiracy—Passion Let’s face it. Ministry on a shoestring requires an elevated level of commitment. When you are short on resources, you must draw on something else, something deep and limitless. Passion if the at the root of our energy for ministry. It is that God-given quality that enthuses us with clarity of vision…
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