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      <title>A 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/assessme/permalink/00018.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:54:50 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/assessme/permalink/00017.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:33:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two Principles that Guarrantee 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/assessme/permalink/00016.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:54:32 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/assessme/permalink/00015.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:47:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Book Release: 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/assessme/permalink/00014.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:35:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Intentionally Engineering Ministry Structures for Maximum Impact, Part 1: An Introduction</title>
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Every church organization exhibits a unique organizational personality. An organization’s personality type enables its leadership to effectively recruit and mobilize people with some ministry temperaments, while impeding the recruitment and mobilization of others. 
At this point it may be helpful to distinguish between the big “C” universal Church, and the little “c” local church. Within Christ’s universal Church, you are a vital member with an essential ministry role. However, the local chur...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00013.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:27:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Intentionally Engineering Ministry Structures for Maximum Impact, Part 2: Cultural Modification</title>
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Unlike human ministry temperaments, which can mature but cannot be altered, organizational personalities may be intentionally modified. This is accomplished by positioning the appropriate people, who possess the necessary ministry temperaments, into key positions of influence. The goal in this culture-modification process is to broaden and deepen a church organization’s ministry impact by intentionally including more of the various parts of the body of Christ within its mission. 
A healthy an...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00012.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:26:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Intentionally Engineering Ministry Structures for Maximum Impact, Part 3: Beginning the Engineering</title>
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It is impossible for churches to perfectly balance all the opposing values in each personality quadrant. If this “perfect” balance could be found, then all churches would simply be clones of one another, and so would look alike, function alike, and serve alike. The goal of cultural modification is not to make every church alike. Rather, the goal is to allow diverse ministry temperaments to play appropriate and supportive roles within the ministry’s unique mission and organizational development...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00011.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:16:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Seven Strategies for Kicking-Off Your Online Assessment Center</title>
      <description><![CDATA[AssessMe.org is 100% committed to helping ministries around the world to effectively equip and mobilize their people for ministry. However, a common question we receive from pastors is, “how do I begin?” This brief article is intended to communicate the strategy we have most often communicated to pastors responsible for ministry mobilization within their church.
 
Recommendation #1 – Use the AssessMe.org Portal in Your Website
            While there are numerous means by which your people ca...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00010.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00010.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:25:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Passion: Following God's Invocatio for Our Lives</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our ministry temperament determines how we approach the world around us, as well as how we interpret our daily experiences. It also causes us to be attracted to certain types of experiences, and disinterested in other types of experiences. The result is that over time, we all develop unique patterns of interests, passions, and skills.
One of the awesome opportunities I am privileged to have, as a father of two young children, is watching the personalities of my children emerge. I have a son, Jo...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00009.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/assessme/permalink/00009.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:08:40 GMT</pubDate>
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