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		<title>UNIQUE CHALLENGES FACING URBAN CHURCH PLANTERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FROM THE MANUAL COACHING URBAN CHURCH PLANTERS [ALLEN THOMPSON] While urban settings offer innumerable opportunities for evangelism and growing church plants, there are also many difficulties facing the planter. These include religious and social climate adjustments, cultural adjustments, and increased financial responsibilities. Cities-those large, socially complex concentrations of people living in close proximity-offer innumerable opportunities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2638</link>
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		<title>Church Trends 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Sweetman 6. We’re doing mission more effectively overseas than at home. Churches are changing their involvement in overseas mission. In the middle of last century, mission was the work of overseas mission societies who recruited missionaries and supported them while they were involved in missions. Most financial support for overseas missions went to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2682</link>
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		<title>Constraints are a Blessing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Schraeder via TS blog Regardless of what your particular role in your church may be, I believe it’s safe “the way we’ve always done it” isn’t working anymore. The world around us has changed dramatically due to the advances in technology and our changing economy. We’re living in a new reality that requires us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2675</link>
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		<title>Stop Speaking in Tongues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Schraeder via TS blog. You’re talking, people are listening, but do they understand what you are saying?Example: the teacher [or any adult figure] in the Peanuts cartoons: The teacher is saying something. Linus, Lucy and others can understand her and are able to communicate with her, but to the average person [you and me] [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2662</link>
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		<title>Power, Privilege and Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Crouch talks via Q Talks. The West represents the wealthiest and most educated people in the world. As beneficiaries of this environment, how are we as Christians to think about such power? Do we have a special responsibility to take a countercultural view on the privileges that come with this power? Thought-leader Andy Crouch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2656</link>
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		<title>The Power of the Ought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ambassador Kampelman An understanding of the Christian story demands that we approach our world in terms of how things ought to be. In order to fulfill his WWII draft obligation, Max Kampelman volunteered for the infamous Minnesota Starvation Experiment where for one year he was subjected to extreme starvation. He served as Ambassador and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2634</link>
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		<title>What Role Should the Bible Have in Society?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Keller, Alister McGrath and Brian McLaren Interpreting the Bible has become a divisive issue for some and little more than sport for others. Some want to talk about the “authority” of Scripture. They’re asking questions like, “How is the Bible authoritative in our lives today?” Others are wondering if the word “inerrancy” is making a comeback. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2625</link>
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		<title>The Reason for God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Tim Keller summarizes his two books, “The Reason for God” and “The Prodigal God”, Via Big Think Blog. Watch this video here&#8230; Discuss this article on Facebook&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2615</link>
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		<title>The Wonder of it All…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes from the Willow Creek Arts Conference 2009 by Tim Schraeder The theme of the conference was Wonder&#8230; and I think that it could have not been a more fitting idea. It was incredible how all of the speakers, though from all different backgrounds, churches and organizations, all basically said the same thing. I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2611</link>
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		<title>Making Ideas Happen, by Scott Belsky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book Review by Tim Schraeder We all have ideas, but, as Thomas Edison famously said, &#8220;Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. &#8220;In his new book Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, argues that ideas are worthless if you can&#8217;t make them happen and offers this simple equation&#8230; Making Ideas Happen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neoleader.org/?p=2601</link>
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