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We’ve changed the way we are training interns and planting churches.  You don’t have to move here to be trained, mentored and sponsored.  You can still move here - and some do, but that’s not possible for everyone.  So if you want, come on and join us.  You can click on “Turbo” above and find out more information.  We are doing two cohorts a year, and this is the first.  Now is the time to begin to sign up for the second cohort. 
As I was observing the church planters, I was so proud of Kevin Cox - he has planted his church, planted other churches, is working in the inner-city and overseas as well.  There are some other guys following suit.  I saw several guys that will be doing the same thing - they remind me of myself, in many ways, a few years ago.  I decided to give an impromptu lecture on Apostolic leadership because they are all going to do some great things and church planters are more prone in this leadership mode than most. I believe this is crucial to young church planters because it is in the DNA of multiplication.  Here are some things I shared with them:
  Apostolic is not: 
        The original 12
        A Spiritual gift
        A position in the church
        Not necessarily a large church pastor
        Not necessarily a high profile pastor or church leader
  Apostolic is:   
        Big Picture Perspective
        Future Oriented
        Entrepreneurial leadership
        Pioneering
        Multiplying
        Connecting
        Releasing
        Leadership that calls to action and inspires
        Modeling
        A Leadership model & role in the church, recognized or not
  Apostolic Challenges: 
          Communicating what you sense and …

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Ed Stetzer interviews Bob.  Click here.

Real-Time Connections is out today and can be ordered.  Click here.

Video Sermon from Sunday.

After each service at each stop during the weekend, there was a time of Q&A.  Here is the Q&A time from NorthWood.

Leave your comments and questions you may have for Bob about this weekend below.

Taken from the www.whydoyoufearme.com website:

What are your first thoughts when you hear words like ‘The Middle East’, ‘Arab’, or ‘Muslim’?

If you are like many Americans, the word that first comes to mind is “terrorism.” FEAR is the natural and assumed emotional reaction. So then….what ARE the political, religious, and societal realities of the Middle East? What impact do these have on America? And most importantly, what should our response be to these challenges?

On January 28th, Governor David Beasley, Ted Dekker, and Carl Medearis will host an honest, unscripted conversation about America and the Middle East. They will not only discuss the vital issues, but provide real-life answers.

The event will be held in conjunction with the release of Ted and Carl’s new book, Tea with Hezbollah — Sitting at the Enemy’s Table, a powerful narrative which draws the West into a completely fresh understanding of those we call our enemies and the teaching that dares us to love them — a must-read for all who see the looming threat rising in the Middle East. David, Carl, and Ted each have a wealth of experience in the Middle East and will provide captivating insights into this confusing part of the world.

Your imagination will be stirred, your heart moved, and your mind filled with new ways to positively interact with the Middle East.

To register for the event, you may click HERE.

Follow these links to see more about this amazing multi-faith weekend!

My sermon

“On Faith” article by Eboo Patel

So far, the multi-faith weekend has been incredible!  Were were the feature story on our local CBS station tonight.  You can watch the story HERE.

I’ve had people email me, twitter, and even call asking me to blog about the experience last night at Temple Shalom in Dallas where we had our first stop of the trialogue for this weekend gathering of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.  You can read 2 blogs back and the story in the Dallas paper for more information and if you want to be a part - it’s not too late - you can go to the northwoodchurch.org web-site and get the details and come. 

First, it wasn’t an interfaith worship service.  Last night was the Jewish worship service and we Christians and Muslims watched – and, where we were comfortable, participated.  If we wanted that, we would have one service - but that would not be honest to who we each were.  I LOVED the music, the recitations - keep in mind they use, for us Christians, the Old Testament - so obviously I was OK with that.  So whether I read Psalms in my church or in their synagogue - it touched me.  I’ve never been to a synagogue - so watching people worship in the faith of my ancient roots and history was very moving to me.  I did feel a connection.

Second, the people were so gracious at Temple Shalom.  They went out of their way to welcome us - I felt like they probably felt overrun by us - we had a few hundred there - not sure how many - but lots.  They kept coming up to our members and introducing themselves to us.  They had a huge spread of food.  They even had a religious bookstore - I think our members cleaned a lot of it out buying different Jewish items.  They thanked us for coming - I was told again and again they never dreamed an evangelical pastor from Dallas would ever enter a synagogue let alone with his congregation.  It made me sad - what impression have we given these people? 

Third, this was about our 3 congregations members - not religious leaders, theologians, etc., so the conversation was so different from what I’ve experienced when we bring together religious leaders of different faiths.  Everyone wanted to get to know one another.  No one was positioning for anything - they’d probably never see one another again - they simply wanted to talk.  And talk they did - asking every conceivable …

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I received this and throught some of you might like reading it.

The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies today released a new report, Religious Perceptions in America: With an In-Depth Analysis of U.S. Attitudes Toward Muslims and Islam.  The major conclusions of the study were:
- Of the four faith groups asked about, Americans express the most prejudice toward Muslims
- Self-reported prejudice toward Jews is the variable most strongly associated with expressed prejudice toward Muslims
- Frequent religious service attendance is associated with reports of “no prejudice.”
- A favorable opinion of Islam is associated with “no prejudice”, whereas personally knowing a Muslim is not.
To read the full report, including an executive summary, please visit:
http://www.muslimwestfacts.com/mwf/125318/Religious-Perceptions-America.aspx

We made the news. Here’s the link and the story has been linked to by USA Today and other newspapers. 
For all the details go to NorthWood’s website.

www.whydoyoufearme.com

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