Dr. Thomas Jay Oord discusses Why bad things happen and uncontrolling love. "God can no more act in unloving ways than a mermaid can run a marathon." https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/o4n3u9
He discusses how prayer affects God, humanity's relationship with God, and God's sovereignty. His theory of Essential Kenosis has brought healing for many who have suffered abuse and or trauma while being told God allowed it happen or God willed it to happen. Hear Thomas' answer to these thing and more in this weeks bonus episode.

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Brad Bellomy from Mosaic Atlanta/Mosaïque
ÉGLISE DE NAZARÉEN joins us to discuss leading a replant, rebrand, and revitalization effort in a multicultural context, Mental health in the church, and the shadow side of ministry.

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Andy Brightbill from 12 Stone Church Atlanta joins us to talk about the importance of the culture of the church and their process for selecting church planters. https://12stone.com. Kevin Meyers is founding Pastor and co-lead pastor along with Jason Berry. 12 Stoner added 1500 new people per Sunday during the summer. Listen to hear the key to their success.

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Dr. Matt Bracewell discusses leadership through creation care and teaching science. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creation-and-compost/id1611276647
Matt is a strong proponent of caring for God's creation but with balance. Additionally he is a young Earth theorist which advocates to for an Earth that is 4-7k years old. You can also follow him on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/654993602405870

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Jim Duggan is Ambassador for Partnership with Dynamo Church Planting International. He spent several decades in sales in the secular industry and transitioned a couple of years back to work with DCPI. He discusses how God used his secular job as a platform to spread the gospel, his leadership philosophy, and how he made the transition to the Non-profit world. He discusses how God uses the talent he developed in the secular life to build his kingdom in the Non-Profit realm today.30.00 will train one person and on average every person trained plants 2.5 churches. An investment in training one person has the potential to impact over 125 people for the Kingdom of God.

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the financial system is the final system. Without proper attentional to the financial system, the entire ministry could be threatened. Integrity in everything and transparency are two primary keys.
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The Ministry Placement system/Kingdom involvement is our next to last critical system. Everyone needs a place to serve where they can contribute to the furthering of God's Vision. Participant in the Kingdom of god doesnt happen when we get to Heaven, it begins now.

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In this weeks episode we discuss the Financial System. The goal of the financial system is to develop mature stewards for the Kingdom of God.It is equity important that the church is a good steward of the financial resources. The church must be transparent about of the money is used and careful to implement safeguards.

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The spiritual growth system is the the 5th critical system for a healthy church. this is really part of assimilation strategy and reproduction. The purpose of this system is have a plan for moving people from being curious spiritually to becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus. This is discipleship. Discipleship is intentional and without a plan people will simply be spiritual consumers instead of being full participants in the reign of God.
Much of this training is part of the New Church Dynamics Training at DCPI.org.

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We continue our discussion on critical church systems. Today we are discussion the Worship Planning System. Without a quality worship planning system, which includes the sermon, the service will seem unprofessional and guests will not return. Intentional effort should be invested in the planning for Sunday Morning worship. Planning Weeks and months in advance will give you team time to bond and give everyone more confidence.

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