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The group blogging project continues on Real Time Connections.  Here is Bryant Neal’s take on Chapter 6 “Engaging Society”

Continuing the group blogging project on Bob’s latest book, Real Time Connections, Scott Rogers offers a great look at chapter five “Living As A Disciple”

A few weeks ago, Bob mentioned that on May 3rd, we would be having several pastors from around the world coming to NorthWood.  After that blog post, we received email after email from all of you asking about this event.  Well, we have a few details ironed out and we are glad to say this is a free and public event to anyone who would like to attend!  All we ask is that you take a minute to register HERE to let us know you are coming.

Here are a few of the speakers who will be here:

Eddy Leo

Dion Robert

Jossy Chacko

The fourth chapter of Real-Time Connections by Bob Roberts Jr. focuses on “Linking to the World.”

The first several chapters laid out his vision – that we would make disciples not through increased ‘church-based’ activity, but by being obedient in our every day lives.

Robert’s does have a disadvantage in writing about how to get Christians to engage in the world through their daily work. After all, he is a professional pastor paid to minister, so how can he possibly relate? What does he know about my cubicle? What does he know about my workplace struggles? What can he say to me?

That being said, he gets it. He’s not all about building another church-based ministry. He engages in unleashing his church for the kingdom through their daily pursuits.

Continuing the group blogging project on Bob’s latest book, Real Time Connections, Sam Van Eman offers a great look at chapter three “Your Job IS Your Ministry”

Marcus Goodyear does a great job giving his thoughts on Chapter 2 of Real Time Connections!  Go read it HERE!

Over the next 10 days, 10 authors will be posting their thoughts on each chapter of Bob’s new book, “Real Time Connections - Linking your Job with God’s Global Work”

Here is Chapter One.

My son, Ben, likes to start companies!  Here is his latest.  It’s a brilliant idea.  Wish something like this would have existed when I started out!  It still isn’t too late - I’m going to be signing up.

What I’m curious about is how did he come up with the idea?  DId he forget something for his new wife Ashley - and said “never again?” 
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Ed Stetzer blogged about us last night.  You can read it here.

Today is the first day of the blog tour for Real Time Connections.  I’ll post links here when they come available to read what others are saying about Bob and NorthWood.
This is the first link!

I remember a few years ago reading a book that spoke of the top ten churches of the 70’s, then the 80’s, then the 90’s and what was interesting - it was always a different list.  Rarely would a church go from one decade to the next.  The primary indicator obviously was attendance.  NorthWood has never been one of the “top ten” but it has consistently been an innovator and developer of emerging ideas.  I’m often asked why we didn’t get stuck, labeled, or stop along the way.  Here’s why:

1.  We’ve known our uniqueness and our call.  Our uniqueness was not a method, strategy, or style of ministry - but it was our T-life - our concept of personal/corporate worship, community through relationships, and glocal impact or missions.  We’ve always focused our church on those 3 things as being the core.  Tom Wolf helped me understand that.

2.  We took a long-term view of ministry.  We didn’t jump at every fad, trend, or new idea that came along.  We knew who we were, if in a primitive way, and stayed true to that.  I have had lots of friends jump on the different bandwagons or methodologies of church growth.  When you do that, you’re always looking for the next big thing.  Nothing wrong with learning from every church - but you must know who you are.  This may come as a shock, but sometimes the “down” times were the best times.  They caused you to look deep, codify who you were and make hard choices.  Planting churches out of our church did not grow our local church, it cost us in money, members, etc., but what it did do, it caused us to move to a different metric of who we counted - not just the people in our church, but congregations outside our church.  By being a “missionary” or “church planting church” church we actually impacted the kingdom 10x more than we ever could have in a single church - but we had to see all the people reached outside our 4 walls in our metrics to see that.  Rick Warren helped me understand that. 

3.  Read cross-disciplinary.  Most preachers either read church growth books or doctrine books - a few read both.  Even fewer pastors read about history, science, culture, business, education, and literature - on a regular basis.  Reading about electronic networks has had a …

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