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  [real-time connections] author’s closing thoughts

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  I’m really excited about Realtime Connections for several reasons: First, it’s for everyday disciples – not just preachers.  My other books have been geared primarily to pastors and church leaders, but many everyday disciples wound up reading them and wanted something more practical. Also, when the Great Commission is fulfilled [...]

   
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  [real-time connections] chapter 10: stop subverting the message

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  As always, I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in one of Dan’s group blogging projects. Initially I had asked Dan for a different chapter assignment.  Apparently my reply to “Dan only” was against group blogging protocol and the chapter I requested was given to another.  That was [...]

   
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  [real-time connections] chapter 9: making space for everyone

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  I don’t know what I expected when I volunteered to lead the discussion on chapter nine of our BibleDude group blogging project, but it wasn’t a discussion on religious freedom. With a title like Making Space For Everyone, I was thinking tolerance; I was thinking love (I like to talk [...]

   
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  [real-time connections] chapter 8: sweating the work

  engaged in culture, ministry 20 comments

  I must confess to you a scandalous secret: I have an aversion to Evangelism. Oh, dear reader, please do not hate me! This distaste does not stem from a lack of love for my God – it’s just that my experience with evangelism has always been so – um, what’s [...]

   
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  [real-time connections] chapter 5: living as a disciple

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  Recently my wife and I were out to dinner and I was moved to asked her this question, “Are we serving God enough?” Our first response was no, but as we thought more about our lives and our involvement with our children, church, and school, we felt that we were [...]

   
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  [real-time connections] chapter 4: linking to the world

  engaged in culture, ministry 7 comments

  The fourth chapter of Real-Time Connections by Bob Roberts Jr. focuses on “Linking to the World.” The first several chapters laid out his vision – that we would make disciples not through increased ‘church-based’ activity, but by being obedient in our every day lives. Robert’s does have a disadvantage in [...]

   
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  [real-time connections] chapter 3: your job is your ministry

  engaged in culture, ministry 13 comments

  Stouffer’s – you know, the frozen meal makers – recently started the Let’s Fix Dinner campaign. The website asks compelling questions (e.g. “Can you give your daughter a better body image by setting the table?”), offers statistic-based answers (“Studies show that teen girls who have family dinners 5 times a [...]