So I just returned from a couple of weeks in Nepal working with the ministry Eternal Threads. It’s a great ministry that I highly commend that is working to create connections between 3rd and 1st world countries, and providing fair trade opportunities for some of the most vulnerable people in the world. One part of the Eternal Threads ministry is something called the Red Thread Movement, and what it is doing for the girls in Nepal is unreal!
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Short Term Missions, or short term trips are extremely valuable, but maybe for a different reason than most of us think. Our trips away give us new eyes to see what we’ve become blind to back at home. Here’s what I mean by that:
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So this past weekend at the Highland Church of Christ, we talked about the vision for Highland for the next 10 years of her existence. It was the product of 18 months of the staff and shepherd praying, fasting and discerning what we would be about of the next decade. And we are doing it all to partner with God in his dream of Restoration. We’re calling it A Restoration Movement.
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Christians may not always be the one to produce to content, we won’t have creative control, or even a say (and granted there are lines that we should not cross). We may be forced into situations that we are not in control of but we can still be Faithful.
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On July 27th I made the call to Central Casting and found out that they were shooting for the new Annie movie with Christian Bale. I called in, and after a few tries got through and was accepted to play a working class restaurant patron. Only to find out that this wasn’t Annie. This is the story of a Preacher who went to Hollywood to be an Extra.
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One of the greatest temptations in our Christian sub-culture is to try and train people to avoid the “wrong” in culture, instead of how to effectively engage and contribute to it. But you can’t hit a target by focusing on what you shouldn’t hit.
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Institutions, by their very nature, don’t like risk. But Faith, by it’s very nature, is risk. So what does the Church, an institution that tries to form a risk-taking people look like?
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