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		<title>To our readers (final blog post)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is our final post on this blog.  In the future one or more of us may start a new blog, but in this season of life we’re finding it difficult to keep up with blogging.  We turned off the comments section, but we’ll leave this blog up for a little while longer as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2010/01/01/to-our-readers</link>
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		<title>Joining God In Mission: Appeal to Christians&#8217; crazy love not fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want established churches to get excited about growing and starting new churches, don’t appeal to their fear that their brand of church is losing influence (even if it is).
The question is not, &#8221;What will we do to keep ourselves from going extinct?&#8221;
The question is, &#8220;What will we do to show people what God is like?&#8221;
The first question is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/11/10/appeal-to-their-crazy-love</link>
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		<title>Joining God in Mission: Showing the Selfless Savior, not the Self-Preserving Church</title>
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Have you been asked to support church planting because of what it will do for your church or denomination (or your non-denomination as the case may be)?  I used to give these well-intended presentations, but now I&#8217;m skeptical.  They go something like this: &#8220;Our brand of church is in a state of decline compared to other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/11/07/self-preservation-not-a-good-motivator-for-outreach</link>
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		<title>Joining God In Mission: A new typical day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been curious to learn what my new typical day is going to look like, now that I&#8217;ve got a &#8220;regular&#8221; job.  I think this is still yet to be revealed. For what it&#8217;s worth, here&#8217;s what today was like.
I got up at 5:30 to read some of the Psalms, did my at-home physical therapy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/09/09/a-new-typical-day</link>
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		<title>A Message Worth Telling: Delivered From and Delivered To</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People in LA need to hear about the God who delivers!  Several friends have described situations where Christians pleaded with them to be or get &#8220;saved,&#8221;  and to their disappointment they discovered salvation means no deliverance.  You gotta stop dressing in all black, stop wearing your lip piercings, stop listening to your favorite music, stop this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/08/10/message-worth-telling</link>
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		<title>Life In EHO: Rejecting the label, not the message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christians and Jesus-followers.  These are supposed to be synonymous, yet a 20-something woman with tattooed arms and pins in her lip doesn&#8217;t think so.  In last night&#8217;s Bible study she explained why she needs Christ not Christianity in her life.  After being burned by churches, she is reading the Bible for the first time.  Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/07/23/rejecting-the-label-not-the-message</link>
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		<title>Faith-Sharing: New Bible studies</title>
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Three new Bible studies just started, and possibly a fourth will begin this week. I am hopeful the individuals requesting these Bible studies will soon gather their family members and/or friends to read and spiritually journey with them.
Two of Meredith’s co-workers in their mid-twenties, who have teased Meredith for being a &#8220;Christian,&#8221; requested a Bible study with Meredith. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/06/23/new-bible-studies</link>
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		<title>E-Ho Prayer Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually email a weekly update on our ministry to people who have offered to pray for us and want more personal and up-to-date info than what we can provide on the blog. 
Today I discovered my email distribution list was wiped out. Until we get that fixed, I’d like to post a modified version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/06/18/e-ho-prayer-update</link>
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		<title>Joining God In Mission: The Myth of Rapid Reproduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that has been helpful for me as we seek to lay the foundation for an obedience-based faith movement (a.k.a. Church Planting Movement) is acknowledging the myth of “rapid” reproduction.
My mind is blown by the exponential growth of church planting movements around the globe.  David Watson reminds onlookers that it took 2 to 4 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/05/27/myth-of-rapid-reproduction</link>
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		<title>More Gospel Planting/CPM videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The participants of the training event I attended this week were asked to watch the “CPM Awareness”* videos at www.cpmtr.org prior to coming.  However, some participants didn&#8217;t watch them, so they&#8217;re going to go do that when they get home.  If you haven’t seen this 4-part video series, you can view it here: Part 1, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wayoflifevillage.org/2009/05/16/more-gospel-plantingcpm-videos</link>
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