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Community Basics: Communication
In an effort to better interact with the community in which I live in, I’ve started to compile a list of ways in which we can be in better communication with each other. I find often that different techniques have up-sides and down-sides, some aren’t quick enough,...
To Die For
I am going to write this blog to get this out of my system, I am going to rant and rave about my current situation. Almost everyone on our staff at Element, at the moment, is on this Whole30 diet where you can’t eat anything you would normally eat (unless you...
Not A Political Blog
I know, when I have to start out saying this is NOT a political blog, it seems like this must be some sort of political blog…it’s not, trust me (I’m not a politician). What I want to share is in regard to engagement in the current political process; it has very...
5 Ways to Pray During Notes Night
The staff have conversations all of the time about Gospel Communities, one topic that comes up often is prayer. The conversations usually go something like this: “Prayer during notes night is taking up more and more time.” After some digging, I find that it is not...
Gospel Truth and Gospel Trust
Today I did something really bad, actually I did something bad a couple of weeks ago and I was confronted on it today. I hurt someone’s feelings because of my own short comings and issues of trust. Essentially, I asked someone to do something and didn’t trust them...
Spamalot – What Is Your Quest
"What is your quest?”...”To seek the Grail!" In my attempt to treat my wife to an evening of culture, I recently took her to see a local production of Spamalot. For those of you not acquainted with the finer works of the Broadway stage, Spamalot is a theatrical...
Mission -> Community -> Gospel (Grace)
Our Gospel communities are currently going through the book “Called Together;” it is laid out in the progression of Gospel, Community, and Mission, but what does this look like to someone who lives outside of the of the Church (outside of the community of...
Souls and Prayer
I have been a little introspective lately. I tend to be affected by books I read the same way I am affected by people, slowly but deeply. When I read a book (or meet people for that matter) I usually scrutinize and dismiss much of it for the first half, then it...
QUESTIONS ABOUT GIVING
ELEMENT’S MISSION
To Glorify God by teaching and living out the Scriptures, transforming community into Gospel Community, and planting churches.
