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down goes the giant starbucks

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  1. i thought this news was pretty interesting as a person who care very little for starbucks (though i do order a caramel machiatto every now and then) & is generally put off by general publics blind loyalty to the chain.
  2. since i am constantly thinking of church stuff. it had me wondering, what meaning might this be for the church, will a shift happen or is it happening when the consumer/program/entertainment driven mega churches forget their main things. or will it be like the shop owner shared, the small church will know the people who come through the doors.
  3. i am going to continue to drink my fair brew at home & church.

hmmm…

tip to mike

from star wars to middle school

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there seems to be some interesting things going on out there.

fresh expressions mission shaped series

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Missionshapedintrothe folks at fresh expressions is handing out their mission shaped course series for free. complete with flyers, brochures, leaders notes, powerpoints and video it is a great treat. not sure how or if it will be something i will implement at church, but i will be checking it out as they release the future weeks. download the intro week.

their most recent update shared messy church, which just feels like such an enjoyable place.

why eikon?

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tonight we started "eikon" an arts initiative within & outside our youth community. eikon, we hope, will become small communities of artisans that help us to practice a medium as well as frame our art as spiritual practice. tonight we started our photography community with around 20 youth & adults. i was pretty stoked for the number, but mostly i was stoked for the people that showed interest. i thought i’d share some of the why behind "eikon" since it was apparently asked about around the gbod.

To be an Eikon means, first of all, to be in union with God as Eikons; second, it means to be in communion with other Eikons; and third, it means to participate with God in his creating, his ruling, his speaking, his naming, his ordering, his variety and beauty, his location, his partnering, and his resting, and to oblige God in his obligating of us. Thus, an Eikon is God-oriented, self-oriented, other-oriented, and cosmos-oriented. To be an Eikon is to be a missional being – one designed to love God, self, and others and to represent God by participating in God’s rule in this world.
–a Community Called Atonement, by Scot McKnight

i thought this did a pretty good job of defining some group identity

i am pretty stoked to see what God does with this grouping