[real-time connections] project wordle
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One great book + ten amazing bloggers + one website with a mission = group blogging project awesomeness. Over 10,000 words written (not counting the comments), and we’ve generated some amazing conversation. About what? This project wordle is a sort of visual representation of what this conversation is all about. One thing that I love about [...]
[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 it will take the whole [...]
[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 fine with me as I [...]
[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 about those things). Bob Roberts, [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 8: sweating the work
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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 the word? Fake. I think [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 7: serving together
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This Chapter has relevance in 2 areas of my Life. 1.) My Church is Also a Missional Church, similar to Bob Roberts- Northwood Church, Focused on reaching outside the 4 walls of our Church, to Reaching the world for Christ, locally, and globally = Glocally My Home church is Lifebridge Church, In Fort Wayne, Indiana. [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 6: engaging society
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This past Christmas season, I was eating out and was being waited on by a young waitress that I had come to know over a period of time. I asked if I could pray for her and she mentioned her husband needed work and couldn’t find it but that she had been able to work [...]
[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 serving our Lord to our [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 4: linking to the world
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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 writing about how to get [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 3: your job is your ministry
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Alternate title: Some Unholy Questions About Work In Chapter 2 of Real Time Connections, Bob Roberts, Jr., talks about “Hearing God’s Call.” As Senior Editor for TheHighCalling.org and HighCallingBlogs.com, I thought this would be a good chapter for me. Bob Roberts tells the story of his own calling to ministry. As an eight-year-old kid, he [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 1: rethinking the great commission
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Don’t have a seminary degree? Awesome! Can’t quote a bunch of scripture? Ok. Never said the sinners prayer with someone? Fine, neither have I. Converted 10 of your friends to Christianity? Wow. BUT… “The one question that matters to Jesus is: Have you loved people enough to minister to them?” Bob Roberts, Jr. in Real-Time [...]
[real-time connections] introduction
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I remember a time when it seemed like every week my church was praying for people who were going out on these amazing missions trips. There were people going on long-term assignments to places like Thailand, while others were going on shorter trips with groups like Mercy Ships. No matter the destination, we were getting [...]
