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What’s Behind Their Questions?

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Question Marks

By Eric Rafferty

My kids are in a serious question asking phase.  For example, two nights ago I woke up in the middle of the night to a voice whispering in my ear, “Daddy, do bees have families?”

What was going on in my four year old son’s mind?  Exactly what it sounds like.  He woke up at 2:30 and was thinking about bees and whether or not they have families.  So, naturally, he got out of his bed, came into my room and woke me up to find out.

That’s the beauty of curiosity in a child.  You can take a question at exactly its face value.  Curiosity springs up and a question is asked because an answer is needed.  Question = I want to find the answer.

When it comes to grown ups and the spiritual questions that our friends ask, I don’t think that’s always the case.

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3 Ways to Overcome Your Anxiety About Jesus at Work

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Can’t seem to find the words at work? Let Anthony encourage you.

217185_10150161042940893_900011_nThis is a guest post by Anthony Moore. He is the Director of Business Development at a San Diego Company. He is also a graduate of San Diego State University and was very involved in the InterVarsity ministry I led there for several years. I am so proud of how he is stepping out at work – I had to have him share!

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[you may also like “How to Start a Ministry at Work“]

I worked for a small marketing startup right after I graduated from college. It was difficult.

I worked alongside about 15 guys, and after my first week or so, I had decided that there really wasn’t any room for talk about “Jesus” in the midst of these 20-something-years-old guys whose main hobbies included getting blacked-out drunk and picking up girls at bars.

After a year of nearly nonexistent discussions about God at work, I was told that I was being let go – company restructuring. I felt defeated on every level – like I had missed my chance for Jesus. Again.

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Wind Opens Doors

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By Beau Crosetto

Yesterday after a full day of meetings I stopped by the beach to do a walk and prayer time. The wind was blowing incredibly hard for Southern California – it was hard to walk and ocean water was spraying up onto the walkway.

As I was walking, I heard God say to me, “Beau, I am so much more powerful than the strongest wind.”

It caught me off guard and I began to think about the Holy Spirit as wind.

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The Invisible Work of God

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The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast…

By Beau Crosetto

Keep Witnessing – Keep Leaning In – God is working.

Just yesterday while I was driving with my neighbor to go play volleyball, he opened up to me again and said,

“Beau, three different times I almost called you from work to tell you ‘Ok, I am ready to have the talk.’”

He continued on to tell me that he knows he needs God in his life but he is just being too prideful. He assured me that we are going to have the talk soon.

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Exponential: Let’s Connect & Free Webcast

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I am heading to Exponential as we speak and wanted to let you know I will be there and would love to connect if you are there as well. Love meeting people and saying hi, so tweet me or Facebook me if you want to say hi!

  • Im part of a panel discussion with James Choung and Shawn Young at 1pm on Wednesday where we will be talking about witness and mission.
  • Thursday at 8:45am I will be leading a seminar on turning casual conversations into eternal encounters.

Also, if you can’t make it, they are live webcasting for free. Check it out.

 

 

ReThinking Witness: Creating a Culture for Discipling Skeptics

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A blog post about James & my new ebook was written last week highlight a section of our book. If you would like to read an excerpt before downloading, now is your chance.

When it comes to discipling skeptics and seekers, we’ve found that it’s easier for believers to get involved in evangelism when you have an evangelistic community that supports their endeavors. Not only that, they’ll also be more effective. To do that, you need to address the culture of your faith community. How would you change a church culture so that it supported discipling of skeptics and seekers? Here’s a summary of five (download our new eBook,  Discipling Skeptics and Seekers,for the full text) of six rhythms that can help:

Read the full article with the five rhythms here.

The Five-Fold Symphony: How the Gifts Work Together

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By Jon Hietbrink

God gives us gifts to play a symphony, not a solo.

Every significant discussion of spiritual gifts[1] in the New Testament is situated in the context of a complex system—we are “one body with many parts” designed to operate in symbiotic harmony with one another. The problem is that the way we’re taught to understand and express our spiritual giftedness can often be a very individualized and siloed experience—we’re taught to understand our personal gifts, but we’re left to wonder how those gifts actually work together in the way God intended.

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