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Friday Foto died. Say welcome to SNAPSHOT. Snapshot is different from Friday Foto. It has a different title. It’s not on Friday. The best thing? The photos are by people more talented at taking photos than me. Each week I will showcase a photo(s) taken by you. You got the goods? Then contact me and email the pic(s) with a 50 word description. First cab off the rank? A buddy from college, Mark Carpenter. Sweet sweet photos.
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See below for another pic and description.
Al Stewart, Andrew Heard and Steve Chong hosted an Australian Church Planting conference yesterday with the aim of turning talk into action. Al kicked off in the Bible and described the job description of a church planter: Soldier; Athlete; Farmer. He also spoke about the nature of the gospel and why it’s worth suffering. Solid and challenging stuff. Chong, 1 year into a church plant in Kogarah, shared some reflections as a rookie with things they got right and things they got wrong. Heardy, 13 years into a church plant on the Central Coast, spoke about thing he wish he knew when he first started.
Some common threads: how hard it is plant churches; the urgent need to plant churches around Australia that will proclaim Jesus; the desire to get out there and do it! There are a bunch of networks currently planting churches around Australia and so the question is: what type of network of networks could be formed to help plant more? And what would its relationship be to the Acts 29 Network?
A whale wakes up on a New Zealand beach. WARNING: The Seagull says the ‘s’ word.
For more Kiwi fun check out this episode from onthepoddy.com
The theme for the Moore College 2nd Year House Party was ‘Running the Race.’ I spoke from 2 Corinthians 4 on Saturday and Jacko spoke from Luke-Acts on Sunday.
Here’s my talk: Fix your eyes on Jesus – DOWNLOAD THE MP3
It’s just over a year since eternal weight of glory (old blog name) was magically transformed into davemiers.com. Happy Birthday DMDC!! Hits have gone up. In the 2 years of stat counting on eternal weight of glory there were about 25,000 and in the 1 year of DMDC there have been just over 50,000 (so roughly 1000 hits per week). 968 posts. 3464 comments. Thanks for reading + commenting.
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This is an encouraging lecture that Mark Driscoll gave at a recent Acts 29 Bootcamp. It’s interesting to hear the progression from Movement > Organisation > Institution > Museum. There are great insights into the vision of Acts 29 and how they are contending and contextualising the gospel.
Most exciting is seeing something of what God’s Spirit is currently doing around the world as Jesus is proclaimed. Recommended viewing if you’re thinking about planting a church.
This weekend we had a camp @ Attunga for our year from college. Really valuable time. It was good to hang out, read the Bible, eat food and spend too much time in the spa!
In today’s second session, we spoke about ‘organisational culture’ ie ‘how we do things around here’. It was helpful to think through what our year group looks like, how we will go about relating and studying and loving on each other. Very good times. (Kate has some more detailed thoughts)
Don’t miss it next year fool!