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STAND FIRM: On the Ground in Israel - Why I Went
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It turned out that my trip to Israel was very safe. The most dangerous part was searching for the true Chicago-style pizza in Chicago on a layover, but as you can imagine, my family and I debated for a while about me going. We had told our immediate family and connection group, but we kept a lid on the trip. I started posting pictures on Facebook a few days into the trip. My wife and I would leave videos for each other on the Marco Polo app each day since our wake times didn’t match ...
HEALTHY CHURCH: 5+1 Discipleship Spaces
Disciples are followers and imitators of the one they are following. A disciple of Jesus Christ is someone who is being with Jesus (relational), becoming like Jesus (transformational) and doing what Jesus did and is doing (commissional). The church is to be a gathering of disciples who are “the people of God, saved by the power of God, filled with the presence of God, for the purpose of...