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      <title>The Church's Greatest Asset</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction
            Psychologists have commented for years that humanity utilizes approximately 11% of our brain capacity. Based upon this assertion, many people have speculated about human potential…the great things we could accomplish if only we could access the unused 89% of our intellect.
            The same could be said of the Christian Church. Most local churches mobilize only 10% to 20% of their human resources into ministry service. Just imagine what could be accomplished for Ch...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00040.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:59:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An Oxymoron: The Equipping Church</title>
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The Oxymoron:     An oxymoron occurs when two concepts are connected together…in this case “Equipping” and “Church”…that first appear to communicate a positive attribute, but upon closer reflection, are truly in opposition to one another. I believe our modern and postmodern churches are experiencing an equipping crisis.
My Experience:     By “equipping” I mean the core purpose for equipping within the context of the Church, found in Ephesians 4:11 and 12, which states that various leader-type...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00039.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:43:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two Principles that Guarantee that You will Lead with Style</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Every pastor naturally desires to be an effective leader. So why do some succeed and others fail? Every church desires to thrive in its ministry efforts, so why do some churches seem to “do no wrong” while others can’t seem to “do much right”? These are complex issues. However, if pastoral leaders and their churches adopt two foundational Leadership Style principles and adhere to these principles faithfully, leaders will come to love their place of service and ministry organizations will overcom...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00038.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:33:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Kind of Leader Are You?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[NOTE: Portions of this article were published in the July/August edition of REV! Magazine and in David's new book, Made for a Mission.
An Introduction to Six Major Styles of Influence...
At the 2007 Catalyst leadership convention, Andy Stanley passionately proclaimed: “Leadership is always ‘follow me,’ it is never ‘follow we!’”
The context of Andy’s statement was his rejection of leadership by committee. I agree with Andy that committee-based leadership is not a healthy leadership paradigm. Y...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00037.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:25:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Announcing the Release of Made for a Mission</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Would you invest the time to answer the question, "Why am I here?" 
Announcing David Posthuma's book
Made for a Mission
Finding Your Place in God's Redemptive Plan
Have you ever asked yourself: "Why am I here?" Made for a Mission offers a biblically informed and strategic method to help you answer this all-important question. 
Made for a Mission is ideal for pastors, staff, and lay leaders who desire to be better equipped in the art of team building and ministry mobilization. The reader wil...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00036.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:17:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An Easy &amp;amp; Cost-Effective Way for Church Leaders To Collaborate</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Some time ago, a pastor of a 1,000 member church asked my opinion regarding the need for a server and local area network for the church. At that time I expressed that I believed these were essential tools for any church that is 650 people or larger.
It is very common for churches to add part-time and full time staff as they grow, yet fail to provide their staff with the tools they require to collaborate together as a team. In addition, when a church lacks a server/network, all important files m...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00035.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00035.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:21:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>AssessME.org Is Now Available</title>
      <description><![CDATA[       ...You Were Made For A Mission!For several years, E-Church Essentials has received requests from main-stream churches who were not yet ready for all our postmodern online ministry tools, to output our Online Assessment Center as a stand alone program.  We have been working on fulfilling this request over the past year.  The result?  AssessME.org (http://www.assessme.org) is now alive!AssessME.org converts any ministry website into an online assessment center designed exclusively for lay m...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00034.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00034.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:29:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FREE Podcast Reader from E-Church Essentials</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Podcasting?  What is that and why should I care?That's what many ministry professionals often ask me.  They have heard about podcasting, but they don't understand its awesome potential for ministry.Podcasting is literally broadcasting audio files via the internet.  The common audio file format is .MP3.  Through podcasting, your ministry can broadcast teachings, meditations, announcements, worship...literally anything that people would prefer to listen to rather than read.  Just like radio and te...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00033.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:19:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Take the Pre-Release Spiritual Formation Assessment for FREE</title>
      <description><![CDATA[E-Church Essentials and Online Deiscipleship are pleased to announce a new Assessment that will be available for purchase in the very near future.  The current assessments found within E-Church Essentials and within the soon to be released AssessME.org all focus on mobilizing people for ministry.  However, it is just as important, may be more important, to know how to nurture people in their spiritual development. The Spiritual Formation assessment is very different in format than any of David's...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00032.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00032.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Sneak Preview At AssessME.org...It will revolutionize and streamline your ministry!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Coming soon, targeted for March of 2006, is AssessME.org.  AssessME.org is a new division of E-Church Essentials.  But where as E-Church Essentials is an all-inclusive online ministry system that may be beyond the present scope of some churches, AssessME.org has one specific purpose...to unleash the ministry team mobilization assessments, as well as the data search and sort capabilities found within E-Church Essentials, for use within your own ministry website.AssessME.org will create a portal t...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00031.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00031.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:25:18 GMT</pubDate>
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