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		<title>Moving Growth From Forced to Emerging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth organizational tool that can be used mechanically or organically is GROWTH.  In mechanical order, growth is forced upon a community in a "large-lump" sort of way.  Typically the way this plays out is that a master planner develops a master plan that requires implementing big changes that have been perceived to be the solution for achieving different results.  The plan controls the community by requiring growth in massive chunks.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Measurement From Numbers to Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third organizational tool that can be used mechanically or organically is MEASUREMENT.  When we choose to operate by mechanical order, we use results-oriented, bottom-line measurement in the form of numeric, linear or statistical evaluations.  What?!?!  More simply, we decide upon some inanimate numerical goal like # of attendees, # of dollars made, or win-loss record and then put that in charge.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Participation From Positions to People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second organizational tool that can used mechanically or organically is PARTICIPATION.  Participation is the way people are involved in the community's purpose.  In mechanical order, people are invited to participate by filling in positions in a master plan.  For example, setting up ministry programs and asking for volunteers to serve in the ministries.  In this case, leaders invite people to participate in ways that serve the plan.  They are then inserted into the manufacturing process (program) with the intention that they are a piece that can help bring about the predetermined desired outcome.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Patterns From Prescriptive to Descriptive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first organizational tool that can be used mechanically or organically is PATTERNS.  Patterns in relationships involve the ways people structure and connect themselves.  In mechanical order, patterns are established prescriptively; meaning they are forced in an effort to accomplish a master plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving From Mechanical to Organic Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of these 10 posts, you'll be able to identify when your relationships, community, church, etc. are operating organically (as an organism) or mechanically (as an institution); as well as gain insight on how to make the switch.  We'll take a look at nine organizational tools that human beings use to relate to each other and how they can be used in either way.  ]]></description>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re On Facebook&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick reminder that "What It Means to Be Organic" starts this Friday.  In light of that, I created a Facebook discussion event the enables us to invite our friends to the discussion as well.  If you're on Facebook, click the link and join the discussion.  Then, invite the friends that you think would be interested in studying with us.  It'll be fun!]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of talk these days about being “organic.”  Not just with our food, but in our churches as well.  Why?  Well, the cognitive understanding of the difference between the church as a building and/or institution and the church as a living, breathing spiritual organism has become a popular issue. More and more people are starting the explore the concept that the church is an organism, along with the ramifications of that perspective.]]></description>
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		<title>What God Really Wants From You and Your Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is food. Jesus Christ is drink...When we eat physical food, it becomes part of us. When we eat spiritual food, which is Christ, He grows in us...As we eat, drink, and rest spiritually, we are converted from clay to gold, pearl, and precious stone to incarnate God’s building...]]></description>
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		<title>Your Opportunity for Religious Detox</title>
		<link>http://www.2ndmanunited.com/church/discipleship-church/your-opportunity-for-religious-detox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.2ndmanunited.com/church/discipleship-church/your-opportunity-for-religious-detox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipleship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[if you remain in the wilderness, you will eventually die...the Christ that is given to you in the wilderness is not adequate to meet all your spiritual needs...the wilderness has but one goal: to sift us, to reduce us, and to strip us down to Christ alone...It’s the place of religious detox...You will never rest, and you will never find “home” until you pitch your tent in the building site that God has chosen for His dwelling place...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Recognize Counterfeit Christianity</title>
		<link>http://www.2ndmanunited.com/church/church-practice/how-to-recognize-counterfeit-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ didn’t come to begin a new religion. He came to begin a new creation...Babylon is organized religion...It is not your native habitat. It’s a counterfeit of the house of God...Many of God’s people are living in Babylon today. He loves them, and He will bless them to the best of His ability. But Babylon is not God’s best, nor His  highest...Significantly, the name Babylon originates from “Babel.” It means confusion or mixture...It incarnates the blending of the holy with the profane...]]></description>
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