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	<title>Provoketive Magazine &#187; Chloe Lynch</title>
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		<title>Does disciple-making have a future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Spiritual disciplines are activities in our power that we engage in to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.&#8221; &#8211; Dallas Willard in The Great Omission. There is something so true about this statement.  Spiritual disciplines are the way we train to become what we cannot become in any other way: Christlike. Yet they have a bad name.  Because no one likes discipline and no one actually likes hard work.  If you plan to run the London Marathon, you don&#8217;t go on training runs in the wet grey of the London streets with the traffic thundering because you actually like said experience.  But you go because you have seen the glory of the prize.  You go because at night you dream of crossing the finishing line and in the day you live and breathe the vision of what could be.  You do the training because you long for the goal and you know that training is the one thing in your power to do which will enable you to do that thing you cannot do by direct effort &#8211; getting out of bed one day and running 26.2 miles. And spiritual disciplines are the same.  Those who... ]]></description>
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		<title>Platform for Ministry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You reminded me of Joyce Meyer, she said. I didn&#8217;t wince. I would have, once, though.  I don&#8217;t agree with everything Joyce Meyer says.  Some of it is great.  And other parts&#8230;well, other parts are maybe not as great. But I have come to respect this lady&#8217;s immense skill at delivering her message when preaching.  Irrespective of some occasional question marks over some of her content, she knows how to connect with a congregation; she understands the importance of truth through personality when preaching. So I took this statement from an African-origin lady as a massive compliment in respect of my preaching in the Bible college chapel that week.  An over-generous one, for sure.  But definitely a compliment for an introverted white-girl preacher from England whose default setting would be to preach like a quiet English girl.  To be compared with Joyce Meyer is a pretty awesome comparison, in fact. But it was what came next that threw me. Do you have a ministry, she said.  You should have a bigger ministry, a travelling one.  Not just the church you lead. And when I demurred, taking it perhaps as lack of faith, she said, Pray about it. This time, I did... ]]></description>
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		<title>On the right frequency?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frequency by Eric Parks and Casey Bankord is a new book coming out in February which is bound to be popular in some Christian circles. It has a foreword by John Ortberg.  That&#8217;s because this book is part of the Monvee offering, a programme for the spiritual growth of individuals and churches which has been championed by various U.S. pastors and writers, including Ortberg. You may have an immediate response to that piece of information.  Monvee has created a bit of a stir, for all the usual reasons &#8211; it seeks to be a comprehensive and programmatic method for making disciples; it claims to celebrate the individuality of believers before classifying them(!) into nine types; and it celebrates the contemplative approaches to spirituality popularised in recent times by Richard Foster and Dallas Willard.  These things, in themselves, are enough to arouse strong opposition in some quarters of the church. But I think it is still possible to engage with this book as a standalone resource and that is what I have tried to do.  I felt that the first half of the book was potentially quite useful for me to share with others in my church.  It talks about the uniqueness... ]]></description>
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		<title>In Returning and Rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January is always a time of reflection for me as we cross the threshold into a new year.  Last year I was all set to project some goals for 2011, goals which were, in essence, no more than an extrapolation of the things I had done in 2010.  Yet last January, God spoke to me clearly about this.  He showed me that to base my future direction on my direction so far was unwise.  Worse than that, actually.  It was stupid.  Because when you do what you&#8217;ve always done, you get what you&#8217;ve always got. To orient myself for 2011 based on my successes in 2010, based on the gifts which had already come to the surface in my life?  Such a process of orientation was deeply flawed.  It could only take me where I had been. And I should have known better. Perhaps I did.  From what I posted then, it would seem that I knew that my doing &#8211; my one-track, single-focus drive for success &#8211; only served to hide the reality that I did not know where I was going. It was, as I put it in a sermon earlier this month, a case of climbing even more rungs... ]]></description>
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