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	<title>Bill Easums Observations</title>
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	<description>The unmotivated are oblivious to the obvious</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Conversations of Our Times: Part two</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080826/the-conversations-of-our-times-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Emergent Conversations 
(If you haven&#8217;t read the previous post you might want to do so for clarification)  Although no one person speaks for the Emergents, so far the primary mover and shaker of this movement is clearly Brian McLaren. His book, A Generous Orthodoxy, is a basic primer for Emergents. But recently Tony Jones, the National Coordinator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Conversations of Our Time: Part One</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080822/the-conversations-of-our-time/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080822/the-conversations-of-our-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many who follow my writing know that two of my favorite metaphors for describing the signs of the times are National Park and Jungle (you might want to read this before reading on). Briefly what I mean by this is that prior to the 1980s we lived in what I describe as a National Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Apostolic Movement in the Emerging World Part Two</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080818/the-apostolic-movment-in-the-emerging-worldpart-two/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080818/the-apostolic-movment-in-the-emerging-worldpart-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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In Part One of this post I took a quick look at the Apostolic Movements I see coming together in the emerging world. I promised to share some examples in the next post. Well, here they are. 
GlocalNet http://www.northwoodchurch.org/glocal/glocal.html is an organization founded by Bob Roberts, pastor of NorthWood Church http://www.northwoodchurch.org in Keller, Texas.  This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Apostolic Movement in the Emerging World Part One</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080815/the-apostolic-movement-in-the-emerging-world-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080815/the-apostolic-movement-in-the-emerging-world-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, I write about movements that I see emerging. The last three movements I wrote about were local churches establishing and staffing church planting centers within their churches, congregations with more than one location, and churches and organizations whose goal is to reach their city for Christ.  All three of these movements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamstringing the Holy Spirit</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080814/hamstringing-the-holy-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080814/hamstringing-the-holy-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished the first round of consulting and training with the Action Chapel International. It is a movement of Pentecostal churches out of Ghana that has gone world-wide over the past twenty years and is now in the U.S.  My role is to help them bring some order to the movement without turning it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movement Basics</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080811/movement-basics/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080811/movement-basics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I first wrote about movements in my book Unfreezing Moves: Following Jesus into the Mission Field.   I described Christianity as an organic movement and compared it to modern day religion. God intended for Christianity to be a movement not a religion.  The problem is Christianity has been highjacked by our passion for democracy.
Movements only happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Movements</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080808/thoughts-on-movements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I’ve been working with a charismatic movement of some 300 churches that were planted out of Ghana (Action Chapel International) led by Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams. They had pulled together several of their key pastors from over the world to work out a structure to allow them to explode throughout the world. The presently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastoral Care is Out the Window in Biblically Based Churches</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080806/pastoral-care-is-out-the-window-in-biblically-based-churches/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080806/pastoral-care-is-out-the-window-in-biblically-based-churches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing separates the mediocre pastor’s actions from those of the highly effective and might I say biblical pastor. Know what it is? Okay, don’t want to guess? Well here it is – the mediocre pastors spends most of his or her time doing all kinds of pastoral care- taking care of members, visiting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Symptom of a Deep Sickness</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080805/a-symptom-of-a-deep-sickness/</link>
		<comments>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080805/a-symptom-of-a-deep-sickness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a United Methodist Pastor since 1968 (the United Conference). That’s a long time. Obviously, I love the UMC. Do I Still love it? You bet.  If I were starting over today would I be a United Methodist again? I’d have to give that some serious thought! Does that break my heart? You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justifying Failure?</title>
		<link>http://ebablog.easumbandy.com/20080803/justifying-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Church is in a mess (see The American Church in Crises) It continues to decline as the population increases.  We are facing the perfect storm if something doesn’t change.  And as is the case in all enterprises, that change must be initiated from the top, by the pastor.  If pastors don’t change the [...]]]></description>
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