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Manna Book Club( a subversive group if ther ever was one)

Posted by Ed and Lois

Next meeting Thursday Oct. 14 at 7:00 PM in Barnes And Nobles. (Near the coffeeshop)

I’m not sure what we’re reading, but I think it’s Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. We’re not meeting this week due to the Riley concert.

David Crowder Band Concert

Posted by Ed and Lois

The David Crowder Band will be appearing at the Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville Tuesday Oct. 12

Appearing with the David Crowder band will be Shawn McDonald. Concert starts at 7:30. These guys along with Chris Tomlin and Charlie Hall form the core of the Passion worship team along with Louie Giglio. Cutting edge worship music with a passion for God.

http://www.davidcrowderband.com/schedule/

Deep Change Or Slow Death by Todd Hunter

Posted by Ed and Lois

Earlier this summer I read Deep Change by Robert E. Quinn. Quinn makes the argument that for persons, businesses or any other enterprise, the only options available to them are “deep change or slow death”. 

Quinn describes “deep change” as:

“...differing from incremental change in that it requires new ways of thinking and behaving. It is change that is major in scope, discontinuous with the past and generally irreversible. Effort at deep change distorts existing patterns of action and involves taking risks. Deep change means surrendering [But] most of us build our identity around our knowledge and competence in employing certain known techniques or abilities. Making a deep change involves abandoning both and “walking naked in the land of uncertainty...”

I cannot remember the Latin phrase, but Dallas Willard has it on his USC business card these words of intention for his life: Nakedly to follow the naked Christ. No one could attempt such a thing without simultaneously pursuing deep change. The Greek word for repentance---metanoia---gets to the heart of this kind of change. Metanoia means to re-think everything and on that basis to turn and go a new direction. Willard puts it something like this: “on the basis of Jesus’ announcement of the present availability of the Kingdom of God, re-consider your whole way of living…re-align all the aspects of your life with the reality of the Kingdom.”

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Interview with Dan Kimball (thanks to Ginkworld.net)

Posted by Ed and Lois

Question:What would you say are the key elements to an emerging church (what makes a church “emerging?"), and why?

Being missional is also an absolute key factor for the emerging church. By being missional, I mean that the core fabric of the church is that we are about being a community of worshippers on a mission. but the mission is not getting people to “got to church”, as you cannot go to church. we are the church. The mission is being the church in all we do and all we are, wherever we are and from this we bring kingdom influence to those around us. We should be inviting others to be joining us as followers of Jesus, not inviting them to events where they raise their hands at an altar call. We should be evaluating our success not by numbers, but by what kind of missional disciples we see being shaped by being in our communities of faith.

http://www.ginkworld.net/7questions/dan%20kimball.html (Full Post)

Sunday October 3, 2004

Posted by Ed and Lois

Manna meets @ 10:42 in The Park Theatre

248 South River Avenue
Holland, Mi 49423-3201

Finishing in Acts 7