Month: June 2007

Check out this sermon series and interactive selection of strawmen Jesus by fellow A29 planter, Matt Kruse, of Edgeworth. Strawman Jesus explores strawmen our culture has fashioned to make Jesus into something he is not, to make him softer or harder than he is, more easy to reject.

1. Pray that God will give you ideas while you’re in conversation with people.
2. Learn to value silence and give people a chance to respond to your hint without your blathering all
   over it.
3. Go cautiously and gently. Many people today don’t like to be pushed.
4. If you don’t get very far with your hints, you can always be a bit more direct. But even then be gentle and friendly. And always leave the door open.
5. Listen carefully and be ready to stop hinting and share the gospel when the door opens.
6. If you share Christ with someone who doesn’t make a decision right away, try to get some contact information so you can talk again or at least send some material that will keep your listener asking questions and wanting more.
7. If someone does accept Christ, find a way to continue discipling the new believer or connecting him or her with a local church.

See entire article by Littleton here.

“Without the discipline of community, solitude
degenerates into self-absorption and isolation;
without the discipline of solitude, community
generates into codependency and enmeshment…
the community of faith is where we
learn the language of love.”

from Journeymen by Kent Ira Groff

HT: Leadership Transformations

See it here. Compare with Driscoll on stress here.