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	<title>The Heart Matters</title>
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	<description>Striving together "that God may be all in all"</description>
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		<title>Lent Picking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It must be the Lenten season, right? Turn on the television or the radio. McDonalds promotes its filet-o-fish sandwich.  The campy wall bass now calls out via cell phone to those seeking a &#8220;meatless&#8221; repast. The local news reports on people heartedly devoted to completing the Northeast Ohio fish fry circuit, after all you only have forty days to partake in all that battered, fried goodness. So many parishes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/512</link>
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		<title>Hallowed Whine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It happens each year. The air cools; the days shorten; leaves burst into brilliant color, soon to fall to the ground. Inside things are happening too. Lights are carefully placed on the mantel; pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, and bats fill my living space; soon it will be Halloween.
I love this festive season. The kids look forward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/490</link>
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		<title>Reformation Recollections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems only fitting to acknowledge the earnest stance that Martin Luther took against the establishment when he nailed these 95 Theses to the doors at Wittenberg.  He wanted to openly discuss these ninety-five propositions, but Pope Leo and the institutionalized church were not in a talking mood. They were outraged.
Luther did not intend to break [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/479</link>
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		<title>Wrapping It All Up &#8211; deli style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concluding thoughts on White's "Rethinking the Church."]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/417</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community
 
The last function of the church addressed by White is the purpose of community, also understood as fellowship. He identifies several aspects of community in need of repentance. These include a lack of authenticity, the presence of broken relationships, and a spirit of exclusion.
 
The absence of authenticity has to do with the leaven in the church, hypocrisy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/415</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worship 
 
The activity of worship was the weakest segment of this book concerning the purpose of the church. White typifies worship as a service that mainly consists of corporate singing. This was somewhat surprising in that he first classified worship as gathering together in the temple daily, praying and the breaking of bread. I believed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/413</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: Ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ministry
 
The third activity that the church engages in is ministry. This the the outward focus on other&#8217;s needs that believers have whether it is caring for infants so that parents can attend a meeting, or it is driving preteens around to various group activities so that they can participate in healthy relational settings. 
 
White lays out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/411</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: Discipleship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discipleship
 
Another purpose of the church is to raise believers to maturity. White turns to Hebrews 5:12-13 where this point is made quite clear.
 

You have been Christians a long time now and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/409</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: Evangelism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Evangelism
 
On page 43, White identifies that “Evangelism involves effectively communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ with the goal of converting an individual to the Christian faith.” Perhaps, the better goal would be to introduce someone to the person of Jesus and His offer of relational reconciliation. The gospel message is always the same, yet the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/407</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: A Call to Repentance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In the Preface of Rethinking the Church by James Emery White, the message of this book is summed up in the following quote:
 

“Rethinking” is a good translation for the word repentance, for to repent means to change our way of thinking. It is literally “after thought.” Jim is helping us to rethink evangelism, discipleship, ministry, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabeech.neoblogs.org/archives/403</link>
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