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11 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 5 Ways I Breakout of M... · 1 reply · +1 points

This is me! Thanks for writing this!

11 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - Church Staff – a Tot... · 1 reply · +1 points

I know that's how we use the analogy, but actually, the most important person on traditional totem pole is on the bottom. So, the literal "low man on the totem pole" in traditional American Indian culture, is the most important person. I use that to remind me that is true in the analogy as well. People can love my sermon, but if the toilets are stopped-up and the pre-school area isn't clean and safe, they won't come back (but they might listen to my pod-cast).

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 5 Questions to Help Pi... · 1 reply · +1 points

This was timely... I literally just got this email and I'm considering how to respond:

"By changing Sunday School around to accommodate possible new members, let's not forget that the mature Christians need a place to still grow in the Lord... I think it would be a bad idea to be teaching elementary Christian principles to Christians who need to feed on meat. I know our church is big on outreach, but it's also about the Members. "

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 5 Roadblocks of Good L... · 1 reply · +1 points

Perhaps also "a superior who has a smaller vision" can hold you back as well...

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 5 Ways for a Christian... · 0 replies · +2 points

#6 - do it in a poem. It's hard to be mad at a rhyme (and it's memorable)

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - What if Church... · 1 reply · +1 points

I preached a sermon once called "When The Church Is Missing an 'I'" somewhat along these lines. You can watch here... http://1lord.org/sermons

12 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 5 Easy Steps to Begin ... · 1 reply · +1 points

#6 accountability - have someone (or a group of someones) that you get together with regularly (weekly, monthly, etc.) to discuss briefly what you've been doing and how it's effected your life.

12 years ago @ Antwuan Malone - Truth or Myth: The Rap... · 1 reply · +1 points

Write's mini-article is pretty much spot on, though some of the interpretation of "in the air" I take differently, but not like most of us think "way up in the sky" it's the word for our very breath, the air around us. I think it speaks more to a state or reality, not an "up up and away" idea...

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 5 Reasons a Church or ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sometimes space is an issue. That also means there are other factors going on (not thinking outside the box) but sometimes that is the case.

13 years ago @ Freedom Watch With The... - 07/24/2010 Freedom Wat... · 1 reply · 0 points

You're killin' me! Please provide a lower res option. I can't stand to watch it, WAY too jumpy.

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