gdp's Comments

The Long View : 3 steps to finding great articles on blogs

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:32:31 +0000

I have 426 subscriptions right now. I regularly hit the "Mark all items over 2 weeks as read" button without a second thought. Like you I do have a few folders that I hit every day. But I also have several that I "dip into" like one dips a toe in the water. Liking/Sharing/Starring really helps Reader *a lot* - it often will find great high quality articles for me. I still wish it would cluster all of the news articles that are exactly the same together, though: so many times an article gets syndicated and then shows up multiple times in my feed.

The Network for Strategic Missions : Resilient Community Journal: June 18, 2009

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:37:17 +0000

You can send an email to momentum-join@strategicnetwork.org to get the daily e-mail of articles.

The Network for Strategic Missions : Hope: What happens to the unreached when they die?

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:04:07 +0000

David, you're right, it's not necessarily in the Bible. Unfortunately it is a fairly common perception. It probably does originate from things like Dante or even CS Lewis' "Screwtape Letters." I was here surveying common conceptions, not necessarily Biblical ones.

The Network for Strategic Missions : The Ethne Initiative: a process illuminated

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:44:06 +0000

This is about the Ethne '06 conference, which was held in 2006.

The Network for Strategic Missions : How new missionaries choose their country of service: do we need a change?

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:27:47 +0000

When people give you that look, just say "This is what God told us to do." You have to stick to your guns. Lots of times in history people have been told to do something by God which no one understood at the time. Jeremiah comes to mind. etc. Go where God's told you to go!

The Network for Strategic Missions : The plausible promise, the definition of success, and the avoidance of disappointment

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:25:33 +0000

I can sense your strong feelings about that, Grady! :) My initial thought is that you're right, the "8x8 discipleship method" is neither a vision nor a promise - it is a teachable behavior. (And btw I have nothing against the idea of CPM... part of the reason CPMs fail is that we fail to teach the teachable behaviors we have been taught. But on the other hand I have no problem with failure provided we learn from it and try again.) Back to the original point: what I would suggest is to do the Lean concept of the "5 Whys." Ask yourself, "Why do we disciple people?" and then, to the answer: "Why?" and then, to the answer to THAT, ask: "why?" and go back 5 Whys. And see what your result is. I'd be interested in hearing it. Could you post your thoughts here?

Michael Hyatt Blog : Spur Leadership Conference

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:17:56 +0000

I'm not sure that characterizing the divide as generational is really all that accurate. There are plenty of swarmish decentralized networks out there that are run by Boomers. The Obama campaign and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines both come to mind.

Merge Worship : angry

Sat, 8 Aug 2009 13:48:01 +0000

and now, having ranted, be sure to block them from your twitter stream. That's the basic solution here, available to everyone: reduce their audience, at least by one.

The Network for Strategic Missions : Power Pentecostalisms

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:01:22 +0000

The ads are generated automatically by Google based on its scan of keywords on the text and what people are offering for those keywords. If the ad does not generate clicks, then the ad will typically be rotated out and not appear again. For example right now I see ads for an online pastoral degree and ministry classes online - not for Scientology.

The Network for Strategic Missions : Transforming Global Water

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:41:21 +0000

Oops! My bad - must have too many things going at the same time when I wrote that little blurb. I've corrected the link. Thanks for catching that, Molly!

The Network for Strategic Missions : Start: July

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:03:07 +0000

Hi Pat, I'm so glad it helped you! We'll be Stateside at least the rest of this year (we think).

The Network for Strategic Missions : A five-minute guide to building a swarm

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:45:48 +0000

I hope that there is not just one swarm, but many! I've been doing a lot of thinking on this, and have been working on a book about it (a how-to manual) now for about 2 or 3 years. I've taught it more than a few times. I think the energy input is more about continuously refining the focus and quality of the energy rather than increasing the level of energy used. I've discovered a number of tricks to that over the years!

The Network for Strategic Missions : A mission agency as a mission platform

Sun, 31 May 2009 03:23:06 +0000

You're probably right on independence vs. interdependence. Perhaps different levels of aid could be offered from an agency-as-platform. I have talked with YWAMers in the past about creating a kind of "Associate YWAMer" position for people who had existing ministries and didn't necessarily want to go through DTS - perhaps people with long-term ministries - but who could benefit from interaction with the base. After all, in the YWAM context, DTS basically achieves two things: discipleship for a new believer (which is where many new YWAM staff come from) and enculturation into the YWAM organization. So if there were some kind of associate position, someone could access YWAM resources and provide resources to YWAMers without having to go through a bunch of red tape? Anyway I do like your thoughts on interdependence vs independence. This is clearly something that we need!

The Network for Strategic Missions : Dr. Ralph Winter, 1924-2009

Fri, 29 May 2009 04:10:08 +0000

Thank you, Linda. I'll revise the title - I'm sorry. They probably
picked the date up from me, and I did a calculation based on his age
as I wasn't certain of his birthdate. I'm sorry I got that one wrong!
(I probably should have written to ask but it was late on the day that
I received word he had graduated into glory, and I didn't want to
disturb your family.)