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  • Sport's Illustrated's Kingdom Agenda

    Called my friend from Michigan this morning to let him know that we slept with our windows open last night. This morning it was 53 degrees in Arizona and 3 degrees in Michigan. I love this place.

    I'm thinking about people who are involved in the Kingdom Project and don't even know it. I read our team a great story this week about an editor at Sports Illustrated who started a program called Nothing but Nets. Basic idea is that you donate $20 to purchase a mosquito net for someone in Nigeria, Africa. He made the need known and over 17,000 people donated $1.2 million dollars to purchased over 150,000 mosquito nets. This represents a significant impact for the challenge of malaria which claims the lives of 3,000 people every day.

    So I've been thinking about how to engage more people in the Kingdom Project of restoration, even if they don't know or follow Jesus. Or how do we partner with those not in the Kingdom to use their resources, passions, networks, and expertise to bring about restoration? Biblical history gives us examples of how God uses those who don't follow or honor him, to accomplish his purposes.

    Maybe the church would be better served in accomplishing it's mission if we stepped outside our fortress mentality to engage those fulfilling the Kingdom agenda, who don't even know the King!

     Wholeness,

     ted

     

  • Happy Fresh Year!

    Top of the New Year to you!  Hope yours has started off well.  I started my new year in October!  

    I didn’t want to be one of the hundreds of people cramming the gym on January 2nd so I started my new year workouts in October.  It’s really been great.  It’s amazing how many people I see at the gym who say, “I haven’t seen you here before!” to which I respond, “That’s because it’s hard to see who is working out from the strategic vantage point of your couch! I’ve been here since OCTOBER!”  

    I love a fresh start.  I love Monday’s, mornings, a new Word document, a new tune, a new vocabulary word, a new shirt, a clean T-shirt, and January 1st.  Not only is it my anniversary, but it’s the symbol of a new start.

    I have some big things planned for ’07 – new church ventures explored, Kingdom territory expanded, fitness habits firmly in place for an entire year of my life, compete in my second triathlon, spend a week on a secluded Caribbean island with my wife,  possibly retire (well, probably not really), help start another church, visit Africa again, learn to cook great food with my wok.  

    So the forecast for 2007 is promising.  I can’t wait to enjoy it, live it, engage it.  I know it will be filled with challenges, pain, joy, celebration, and growth.  So I embrace it – bring it!  

    Oh yea, another of my new year’s revolutions is to blog!  Be happy, later.

    ted


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