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      <title>Site Updates</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A few under-the-hood changes are in the works here at ZealForYourHouse.com, and I wanted to let you, our faithful readership, know what's going on.]]></description>
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Bob Hyatt wrote an article for Next-wave.org in which he talks about a broad continuum or spectrum of churches which participate in the "emergent" movement, and I think it's a useful tool for orienting ourselves, not unlike my writeup last year about the spectrum of seeker cultures.  I do want to make a cautionary response to something he said about the "most emergent" end of the continuum.

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      <title>Top Three Recommended Reading on Leadership</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you want a picture of how I envision healthy leadership for the church, there are three books you need to read.

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I wouldn't say the Bible is full of blueprints, but I would say that it is full of patterns, and the thing about patterns is that they tend to repeat themselves.  Some patterns are good and helpful - Jesus' pattern of daily prayer, Paul's pattern of exercising his spiritual gifts, David's pattern of offering heart-felt praise and thanksgiving to God, John's pattern of telling Christians to love one another.  Some patterns are far less positive, like this passage from Isaiah describing a culture with badly twisted values.

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      <title>South Pacific Devastation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As of December 31st, the Dec 26th earthquake and tsunamis have killed over 120,000 people.  If you haven't already, please do something.
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      <description><![CDATA[Whether on national television or in nationwide bookstores, there are some contentious arguments between well-meaning Christians about the particular ways that a few have been using the tools of popular media to get their messages out.

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"Where are the 20 to 35-year-olds?"  A fair question; this significant slice of the population pie dominates (with the help of their 12-to-19 followers) the tastes of the entertainment industry, drives and governs a significant chunk of the national economy, has demonstrated an uncanny willingness and eagerness to integrate new technologies and communication modes into their learning processes, political voices, leisure times, and work flows, and is largely absent from many churches.  Those churches have reason to worry.

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      <title>Is it Un-Christian to Say that Women Can't be Pastors?</title>
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Those of you who have studied the Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) know that, legally, Scopes' goal was to have Darwinian Evolutionism admitted to science curricula as a valid alternative theory to Biblical Special Creationism.  And how the landscape has changed since then... now, it is Intelligent Design (a very non-specific cousin of creationism) that is putting up a fight to not be completely excluded from the classroom, facing a barrage of protests that it is "thoroughly unscientific".  I wonder if our debate about women's place in Christian ministry is heading in the same direction.

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Assume that homosexual marriage will continue to be legal, in some form, somewhere in the United States for the forseeable future.  (Seeing as how Massachusetts has been issuing same-sex marriage licenses for 6 months now, and legally that state of affairs can change no sooner than 2006, the assumption seems fair.)  The church is going to have to figure out what to do with married homosexual couples who come in our doors and decide to follow Jesus.

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      <title>&quot;Emergent&quot;?</title>
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Some of you may have noticed a mini-glut of books and resources on the Christian market talking about the "emerging" church, calling it the key to ministering effectively to 20-to-35-year-olds and others with more post-modern world views.  One thing you won't read in most of those books is that, if done carelessly, doing "emergent church" will basically amount to a re-branded seeker-sensitivity.

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      <title>Can God Tell You What To Do?</title>
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This is an issue of, I believe, profound importance to the health of the church:  Too many so-called believers are still laboring under the impression that they are sovereign and that God is not.

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      <description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that I've written somewhere around 80 articles for this web site, and the sheer volume may have given you the false impression that there is something very complicated about growing a vibrant, exciting, God-honoring Church.

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