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		<title>Ed Stetzer and the Future of Denominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Could you tell that I&#8217;ve lost my passion for live blogging?  I&#8217;d forgotten to even write about Ed until this morning. :)</p>
<p>But I do have several things to offer.</p>
<p>First, <a title="Trevin Wax|Kingdom People" href="http://trevinwax.com" target="_blank">Trevin Wax</a> is here and is ready to challenge <a title="Timmy Brister|Provocations and Pantings" href="http://timmybrister.com" target="_blank">Timmy Brister</a> for champ of the live blog.  <a title="Trevin Wax|Ed Stetzer" href="http://trevinwax.com/2009/10/06/ed-stetzer-denominationalism-is-there-a-future/" target="_blank">Here are his notes on Ed&#8217;s presentation</a>.</p>
<p>Also, <a title="MissioScapes Twitter Feed|Search.twitter.com" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=missioscapes">here is a link to the tweets I put up at the MissioScapes twitter feed</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to summarize my reaction to Ed&#8217;s super fast talking.</p>
<p>The gist of it all was that, yes, we will have denominations, but what they will look like has yet to be determined. Nevertheless, churches naturally will find each other and will work together if they have a passion for the Great Commission.</p>
<p>Still, there are benefits and burdens that go along with denominations. The burdens center around our tendency to focus on the mechanisms of our cooperation rather than our common calling.</p>
<p>The benefits are many and, quite frankly, are both obvious and listed in the above links.</p>
<p>What most struck me about the message was the forceful tone he took calling for cooperation.  This might not surprise you, but what might surprise you is that, at one point, Ed suggested that if certain people can&#8217;t get along with the rest of us, insist on attempting to run everyone else out or force us to conform, then THEY should leave the convention.</p>
<p>The people about whom he was speaking were obvious to the engaged SBC observer and even to the more disengaged former SBC blogger, like myself.</p>
<p>In terms of pointed rhetoric, Ed was somewhere between his usual provocativity and Marty Duren from back in the old days.  On the SBC spectrum of &#8220;lighting it up,&#8221; if Micah Fries is a 1 (humbly opinioned) and Ben Cole is a 10 (Shock &amp; Awe), Ed normally resides in the middle at a happy 5.  I&#8217;d have to say that last night, Ed jumped up to 8 on a few occasions, which was kind of fun.</p>
<p>Especially because I agreed with him.</p>
<p>Had he been talking more about me (and he did from time to time) I might not have enjoyed it as much.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/10/05/the-future-of-denominationalism-schedule/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Future of Denominationalism Schedule">The Future of Denominationalism Schedule</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/04/21/art-rogers-lifeway-namb-imb-ed-stetzer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The SBC doing things VERY well">The SBC doing things VERY well</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/02/15/frank-page-union-university-baptist-identity-conference/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Baptist Identity Pt. 1">Baptist Identity Pt. 1</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/09/church-staffing-mixed-matched-by-malcolm-gladwell/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Church Staffing:  Mis-Matched by Malcolm Gladwell">Church Staffing:  Mis-Matched by Malcolm Gladwell</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/06/26/founders-conference-ed-stetzer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Founders Conference:  Ed Stetzer">Founders Conference:  Ed Stetzer</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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</span><p>Could you tell that I&#8217;ve lost my passion for live blogging?  I&#8217;d forgotten to even write about Ed until this morning. :)</p>
<p>But I do have several things to offer.</p>
<p>First, <a title="Trevin Wax|Kingdom People" href="http://trevinwax.com" target="_blank">Trevin Wax</a> is here and is ready to challenge <a title="Timmy Brister|Provocations and Pantings" href="http://timmybrister.com" target="_blank">Timmy Brister</a> for champ of the live blog.  <a title="Trevin Wax|Ed Stetzer" href="http://trevinwax.com/2009/10/06/ed-stetzer-denominationalism-is-there-a-future/" target="_blank">Here are his notes on Ed&#8217;s presentation</a>.</p>
<p>Also, <a title="MissioScapes Twitter Feed|Search.twitter.com" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=missioscapes">here is a link to the tweets I put up at the MissioScapes twitter feed</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to summarize my reaction to Ed&#8217;s super fast talking.</p>
<p>The gist of it all was that, yes, we will have denominations, but what they will look like has yet to be determined. Nevertheless, churches naturally will find each other and will work together if they have a passion for the Great Commission.</p>
<p>Still, there are benefits and burdens that go along with denominations. The burdens center around our tendency to focus on the mechanisms of our cooperation rather than our common calling.</p>
<p>The benefits are many and, quite frankly, are both obvious and listed in the above links.</p>
<p>What most struck me about the message was the forceful tone he took calling for cooperation.  This might not surprise you, but what might surprise you is that, at one point, Ed suggested that if certain people can&#8217;t get along with the rest of us, insist on attempting to run everyone else out or force us to conform, then THEY should leave the convention.</p>
<p>The people about whom he was speaking were obvious to the engaged SBC observer and even to the more disengaged former SBC blogger, like myself.</p>
<p>In terms of pointed rhetoric, Ed was somewhere between his usual provocativity and Marty Duren from back in the old days.  On the SBC spectrum of &#8220;lighting it up,&#8221; if Micah Fries is a 1 (humbly opinioned) and Ben Cole is a 10 (Shock &amp; Awe), Ed normally resides in the middle at a happy 5.  I&#8217;d have to say that last night, Ed jumped up to 8 on a few occasions, which was kind of fun.</p>
<p>Especially because I agreed with him.</p>
<p>Had he been talking more about me (and he did from time to time) I might not have enjoyed it as much.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/10/05/the-future-of-denominationalism-schedule/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Future of Denominationalism Schedule">The Future of Denominationalism Schedule</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/04/21/art-rogers-lifeway-namb-imb-ed-stetzer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The SBC doing things VERY well">The SBC doing things VERY well</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/02/15/frank-page-union-university-baptist-identity-conference/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Baptist Identity Pt. 1">Baptist Identity Pt. 1</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/09/church-staffing-mixed-matched-by-malcolm-gladwell/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Church Staffing:  Mis-Matched by Malcolm Gladwell">Church Staffing:  Mis-Matched by Malcolm Gladwell</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/06/26/founders-conference-ed-stetzer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Founders Conference:  Ed Stetzer">Founders Conference:  Ed Stetzer</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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		<title>GCR Task Force Listening Luncheon Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Yep, I&#8217;m going.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll bother live blogging, but I might tweet.</p>
<p>If you are interested follow<a title="Twitter|Art Rogers" href="http://twitter.com/artrogers" target="_blank"> my twitter</a> or the <a title="Twitter|MissioScapes" href="http://twitter.com/missioscapes" target="_blank">MissioScapes twitter</a> feeds.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll probably write a post event perspective for later in the week.</p>
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</span><p>Yep, I&#8217;m going.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll bother live blogging, but I might tweet.</p>
<p>If you are interested follow<a title="Twitter|Art Rogers" href="http://twitter.com/artrogers" target="_blank"> my twitter</a> or the <a title="Twitter|MissioScapes" href="http://twitter.com/missioscapes" target="_blank">MissioScapes twitter</a> feeds.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll probably write a post event perspective for later in the week.</p>
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		<title>So I&#8217;ve decided to be a blogger</title>
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		<dc:creator>art rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>For those of you still checking in faithfully over the last, what? Three weeks? You deserve to know what&#8217;s been going on.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been busy.</p>
<p>I know.  Life&#8217;s busy and if you&#8217;re going to be hosting your own site, then you owe it to the good folks who have come to depend on the sage advice, probing questions and stupid videos that you post to actually dispense these things.</p>
<p>Inquiring minds want to know.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>I actually faced a bit of a dilemma with the whole situation.  I&#8217;ve been so busy with pastoring and then my personal life (had you heard I&#8217;ve taken up cycling?) and then my family&#8217;s personal lives (I&#8217;m now the chauffeur for &#8230; never mind.  If you know, you know and if you don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m allowed to elaborate on the blog) that I have been too exhausted to write in the evenings when I typically craft my blog posts.</p>
<p>I considered shutting it down.</p>
<p>Some of you have heard that I have agreed to be an editor/contributor to a group blog called <a title="MissioScapes.com" href="http://www.missioscapes.com" target="_blank">MissioScapes</a> with some of the <a title="MissioScapes.com|Editors" href="http://www.missioscapes.com/editors" target="_blank">usual suspects</a>.  In fact, <a title="MissioScapes|If we were the GCR Task Force we would wear camel hair suits and eat bugs" href="http://missioscapes.com/archives/if-we-were-the-gcr-task-force-we-would-wear-camel-hair-suits-and-eat-bugs/" target="_blank">my initial article dropped there last week</a>.</p>
<p>I thought that my occasional post there my tide over my writing jones. Scratch the itch. But then, no. I don&#8217;t think it will.</p>
<p>Then, I thought I might start an entirely new blog.  An anonymous cycling blog from the eyes of a newbie cyclist.  So much uncovered territory.  So many obvious and yet unassaulted targets in the cycling community.  You have no idea.  I&#8217;m not even talking about the Lycra, either.</p>
<p>Still might do that, but then, maybe not.</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m too tired to write about the established aspects of my life, what makes me think an anonymous and yet unread cycling blog would drive me to shake off the web of slumber and expose the spandex clad, two wheeled, helmeted, free wheeling crowd to an audience that doesn&#8217;t even exist?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>The writing&#8217;s the thing.  It&#8217;s not the subject of the blog.  Do I want to write, and if so, will I set aside time to do it?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>I have decided that this is worth that and, frankly, it is you who have shown me that I should.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve not said a word.  No notes. No comments.  No email.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;ve come back.  Daily for over a month with barely a word from me beyond unfulfilled promises of posts to come, you still drop in and read what I have not written.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>And since you&#8217;ve apparently cared what I have to not say, I think you&#8217;ll be immenantly more interested in the things that I hope to say, so&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve decided to be a blogger.</p>
<p>By that I mean not just the random thought or question but something interesting &#8211; or at least something I think is interesting &#8211; more than once a week.</p>
<p>There you have it.</p>
<p>Sorry, for the impromptu time off.  Thanks for sticking around.  See you soon.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://radreformfan.blogspot.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Gary Snowden</a> writes: Art,

Glad to hear that you've decided to stick with blogging.  I'm not a very faithful writer at times either.  There are long lapses of time that pass without a post, but then I'll get inspired and write 2 or 3 in quick succession.  It's nice to have a venue for expressing one's thoughts, even if they are sporadic and periodic.  By the way, I had a meeting with Rodney Hammer this past Thursday at the associational office and he described his initial meeting with you in Tulsa after having read your blog for some time.  I suspect you have a lot of faithful readers.  Blessings.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: Gary,

Fascinatingly, this brings up another issue.  My comment email system wasn't working and I would not be notified of comments when they were left.  I wasn't participating well in discussion, which hurt discussion and also hurt my own interest.

Miraculously, it has fixed itself and your comment just appeared in my inbox.

Amazing.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://mightyfowl.blogspot.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Bob Cleveland</a> writes: Art, 

It's axiomatic that the things we dream up to serve us, we eventually become enslaved to. 

I've felt the same thing about blogging, my ownself, but I finally decided I blog because of me. I enjoy the writing. And I don't write unless the bug, germ, spirit, whatever, bites me. 

I quit the choir for the same (admittedly twisted) reason. I'd been teaching 2 Sunday Schools for some months and when I finally made it to worship, they were doing a number they'd prepared for the Christmas Cantata, and I sat out that Sunday and loved being in the congregation out there in a pew. 

The little voice said "you can't quit .. you've been there longer than anybody but the pianist .. what will people think ..". God then convicted me that was precisely the wrong reason, and I've loved being "out there" ever since.

If you want to write, write. When you don't feel like it, don't. It needn't be any more complicated than that. Besides, might a lot of those visits be from RSS readers, like mine? That's the only way I ever go to a blog any more since someone (you, as I recall...) mentioned them. (If it was you, a big thanks.)

And oh, yes, I do enjoy your writing, or maybe I just enjoy hearing from a friend.

Both, actually.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, Bart writes: Bumbling blogging bicyclist is becoming better at battling bumper to bumper bottlenecks and bringing boy to bashes.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: Bob,

I always enjoy your writing also, and good friends are like good medicine.  Glad you're mine.

Also, you are welcome for the rss feed reader, but no they don't show up in stats.  Those are actual visits.

Technology is fascinating, eh?

Bart,

Huh? ;)</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 25, 2009</a>, Vicki writes: I got it.  I actually have an RSS feed to my work email.  I'm not sure if we can do an RSS feed to our personal email (that I don't like).  I wish I was as clever as Bart!!!</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/09/20/a-picture-of-marty-duren/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: A Picture of Marty Duren">A Picture of Marty Duren</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/08/16/have-you-ever-seen-this/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Have you ever seen this?">Have you ever seen this?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/06/10/pastoral-blogging-5a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pastoral Blogging 5a">Pastoral Blogging 5a</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/01/17/2007-christian-blogger-survey/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 2007 Christian Blogger Survey">2007 Christian Blogger Survey</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2005/09/27/another-bashing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Another bashing&#8230;">Another bashing&#8230;</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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</span><p>For those of you still checking in faithfully over the last, what? Three weeks? You deserve to know what&#8217;s been going on.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been busy.</p>
<p>I know.  Life&#8217;s busy and if you&#8217;re going to be hosting your own site, then you owe it to the good folks who have come to depend on the sage advice, probing questions and stupid videos that you post to actually dispense these things.</p>
<p>Inquiring minds want to know.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>I actually faced a bit of a dilemma with the whole situation.  I&#8217;ve been so busy with pastoring and then my personal life (had you heard I&#8217;ve taken up cycling?) and then my family&#8217;s personal lives (I&#8217;m now the chauffeur for &#8230; never mind.  If you know, you know and if you don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m allowed to elaborate on the blog) that I have been too exhausted to write in the evenings when I typically craft my blog posts.</p>
<p>I considered shutting it down.</p>
<p>Some of you have heard that I have agreed to be an editor/contributor to a group blog called <a title="MissioScapes.com" href="http://www.missioscapes.com" target="_blank">MissioScapes</a> with some of the <a title="MissioScapes.com|Editors" href="http://www.missioscapes.com/editors" target="_blank">usual suspects</a>.  In fact, <a title="MissioScapes|If we were the GCR Task Force we would wear camel hair suits and eat bugs" href="http://missioscapes.com/archives/if-we-were-the-gcr-task-force-we-would-wear-camel-hair-suits-and-eat-bugs/" target="_blank">my initial article dropped there last week</a>.</p>
<p>I thought that my occasional post there my tide over my writing jones. Scratch the itch. But then, no. I don&#8217;t think it will.</p>
<p>Then, I thought I might start an entirely new blog.  An anonymous cycling blog from the eyes of a newbie cyclist.  So much uncovered territory.  So many obvious and yet unassaulted targets in the cycling community.  You have no idea.  I&#8217;m not even talking about the Lycra, either.</p>
<p>Still might do that, but then, maybe not.</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m too tired to write about the established aspects of my life, what makes me think an anonymous and yet unread cycling blog would drive me to shake off the web of slumber and expose the spandex clad, two wheeled, helmeted, free wheeling crowd to an audience that doesn&#8217;t even exist?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>The writing&#8217;s the thing.  It&#8217;s not the subject of the blog.  Do I want to write, and if so, will I set aside time to do it?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>I have decided that this is worth that and, frankly, it is you who have shown me that I should.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve not said a word.  No notes. No comments.  No email.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;ve come back.  Daily for over a month with barely a word from me beyond unfulfilled promises of posts to come, you still drop in and read what I have not written.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>And since you&#8217;ve apparently cared what I have to not say, I think you&#8217;ll be immenantly more interested in the things that I hope to say, so&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve decided to be a blogger.</p>
<p>By that I mean not just the random thought or question but something interesting &#8211; or at least something I think is interesting &#8211; more than once a week.</p>
<p>There you have it.</p>
<p>Sorry, for the impromptu time off.  Thanks for sticking around.  See you soon.</p>
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Glad to hear that you've decided to stick with blogging.  I'm not a very faithful writer at times either.  There are long lapses of time that pass without a post, but then I'll get inspired and write 2 or 3 in quick succession.  It's nice to have a venue for expressing one's thoughts, even if they are sporadic and periodic.  By the way, I had a meeting with Rodney Hammer this past Thursday at the associational office and he described his initial meeting with you in Tulsa after having read your blog for some time.  I suspect you have a lot of faithful readers.  Blessings.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: Gary,

Fascinatingly, this brings up another issue.  My comment email system wasn't working and I would not be notified of comments when they were left.  I wasn't participating well in discussion, which hurt discussion and also hurt my own interest.

Miraculously, it has fixed itself and your comment just appeared in my inbox.

Amazing.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://mightyfowl.blogspot.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Bob Cleveland</a> writes: Art, 

It's axiomatic that the things we dream up to serve us, we eventually become enslaved to. 

I've felt the same thing about blogging, my ownself, but I finally decided I blog because of me. I enjoy the writing. And I don't write unless the bug, germ, spirit, whatever, bites me. 

I quit the choir for the same (admittedly twisted) reason. I'd been teaching 2 Sunday Schools for some months and when I finally made it to worship, they were doing a number they'd prepared for the Christmas Cantata, and I sat out that Sunday and loved being in the congregation out there in a pew. 

The little voice said "you can't quit .. you've been there longer than anybody but the pianist .. what will people think ..". God then convicted me that was precisely the wrong reason, and I've loved being "out there" ever since.

If you want to write, write. When you don't feel like it, don't. It needn't be any more complicated than that. Besides, might a lot of those visits be from RSS readers, like mine? That's the only way I ever go to a blog any more since someone (you, as I recall...) mentioned them. (If it was you, a big thanks.)

And oh, yes, I do enjoy your writing, or maybe I just enjoy hearing from a friend.

Both, actually.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, Bart writes: Bumbling blogging bicyclist is becoming better at battling bumper to bumper bottlenecks and bringing boy to bashes.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 24, 2009</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: Bob,

I always enjoy your writing also, and good friends are like good medicine.  Glad you're mine.

Also, you are welcome for the rss feed reader, but no they don't show up in stats.  Those are actual visits.

Technology is fascinating, eh?

Bart,

Huh? ;)</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/08/24/so-ive-decided-to-be-a-blogger/">August 25, 2009</a>, Vicki writes: I got it.  I actually have an RSS feed to my work email.  I'm not sure if we can do an RSS feed to our personal email (that I don't like).  I wish I was as clever as Bart!!!</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/09/20/a-picture-of-marty-duren/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: A Picture of Marty Duren">A Picture of Marty Duren</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/08/16/have-you-ever-seen-this/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Have you ever seen this?">Have you ever seen this?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/06/10/pastoral-blogging-5a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pastoral Blogging 5a">Pastoral Blogging 5a</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/01/17/2007-christian-blogger-survey/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 2007 Christian Blogger Survey">2007 Christian Blogger Survey</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2005/09/27/another-bashing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Another bashing&#8230;">Another bashing&#8230;</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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		<title>The Great Commission Resurgence, MissioScapes and Partnering with the Unholy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Right now, over at <a title="MissioScapes|If we were the GCR Task Force" href="http://missioscapes.com/archives/if-we-were-the-gcr-task-force-we-would-level-the-playing-field/" target="_blank">MissioScapes</a>, you can read an article from Marty Duren that is the beginning of a series entitled, &#8220;If we were the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.&#8221; It&#8217;s Marty being Marty on the SBC and I know some of you have missed that stuff. My article will be there in a few weeks.  There are a few scheduled to drop between now and then, but all will be worth your while, I think.</p>
<p>Oh, and please remember that the MissioScapes blog is ideological, not political, and not focused on the SBC.  Rather, since the SBC has made the move to further its ability to fulfill the Missio Dei, it seems that we are focused on the same things at the moment.  No, I don&#8217;t think we are always focused on the same things as the SBC, if that question crossed your mind.</p>
<p>Not to ignore my postings here at 12 Witnesses, I&#8217;ll be dropping an article this week about Christians intentionally partnering with the unholy.</p>
<p>I hope to pique your interest by saying that I think we should do it.  Alot.</p>
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</span><p>Right now, over at <a title="MissioScapes|If we were the GCR Task Force" href="http://missioscapes.com/archives/if-we-were-the-gcr-task-force-we-would-level-the-playing-field/" target="_blank">MissioScapes</a>, you can read an article from Marty Duren that is the beginning of a series entitled, &#8220;If we were the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.&#8221; It&#8217;s Marty being Marty on the SBC and I know some of you have missed that stuff. My article will be there in a few weeks.  There are a few scheduled to drop between now and then, but all will be worth your while, I think.</p>
<p>Oh, and please remember that the MissioScapes blog is ideological, not political, and not focused on the SBC.  Rather, since the SBC has made the move to further its ability to fulfill the Missio Dei, it seems that we are focused on the same things at the moment.  No, I don&#8217;t think we are always focused on the same things as the SBC, if that question crossed your mind.</p>
<p>Not to ignore my postings here at 12 Witnesses, I&#8217;ll be dropping an article this week about Christians intentionally partnering with the unholy.</p>
<p>I hope to pique your interest by saying that I think we should do it.  Alot.</p>
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		<title>New Missional Cooperative Blog or Let&#8217;s Get the Band Back Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>So a few weeks ago, as I was at my in-law&#8217;s house about to head with them to a family reunion vacation for the week, I got a call from Alan Cross.</p>
<p>He started with the line, &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to get the band back together.&#8221;</p>
<p>Flattered that he thought me essential, but wary of being drawn back into a political melee, I was initially non-commital.  I told him I was happy trying to advance the Kingdom from my church and blogging my ideas of the Missio Dei (Mission of God) from 12 Witnesses.  I was not going back &#8220;there.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was a longer conversation than just that, but I ranted about the foolishness of some and the impure motives of others alongside the personal regrets that I had for my own follies.</p>
<p>Patiently allowing me to disgorge all my emotions, when I was done, Alan simply agreed and said that everyone pretty much felt the same way.</p>
<p>So I said I was &#8220;open&#8221; to the idea.</p>
<p>Shortly thereafter, during a video conference, Todd Littleton argued that we were Southern Baptists and that, unless we were willing to walk away completely from the SBC, then we had an obligation to stay engaged &#8211; at least ideologically.  After all, we are sending part of the tithes and offerings of our church members to the SBC.  We at least owe it to our churches to stay connected.</p>
<p>I had to agree.</p>
<p>Therefore, Paul and Todd Littleton, Marty Duren, David Phillips, John Elam, Alan Cross and I agreed to launch <a title="MissioScapes.com" href="http://www.missioscapes.com" target="_blank">MissioScapes.com</a> where we address the Missio Dei from a Southern Baptist context in several expressions (from rural to urban), but also with an eye toward things beyond our denomination.</p>
<p>It launched today, and we hope to bring you some great ideas alongside some that just won&#8217;t fly, but all of which we hope will spur you to think about fulfilling God&#8217;s mission to our world.  You&#8217;ll be reading interviews, book reviews and original articles from the the 7 editors and beyond.</p>
<p>Just for clarification, this effort is ideological and not political.  We will be addressing SBC related issues, among other things, but nobody needs or wants &#8220;a seat at the table&#8221; and we have no intention of sponsoring motions or resolutions.  Nor do we have any intent of being drawn into petty side discussions with those that do desire to dwell in the world of political mechanizations.</p>
<p>Oh, and 12 Witnesses is going nowhere.  I&#8217;ll still be posting here in the same vein that I have for the last couple of years and there may even be an occasion when I&#8217;ll post an article in both places.</p>
<p>I hope to see you around.</p>
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</span><p>So a few weeks ago, as I was at my in-law&#8217;s house about to head with them to a family reunion vacation for the week, I got a call from Alan Cross.</p>
<p>He started with the line, &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to get the band back together.&#8221;</p>
<p>Flattered that he thought me essential, but wary of being drawn back into a political melee, I was initially non-commital.  I told him I was happy trying to advance the Kingdom from my church and blogging my ideas of the Missio Dei (Mission of God) from 12 Witnesses.  I was not going back &#8220;there.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was a longer conversation than just that, but I ranted about the foolishness of some and the impure motives of others alongside the personal regrets that I had for my own follies.</p>
<p>Patiently allowing me to disgorge all my emotions, when I was done, Alan simply agreed and said that everyone pretty much felt the same way.</p>
<p>So I said I was &#8220;open&#8221; to the idea.</p>
<p>Shortly thereafter, during a video conference, Todd Littleton argued that we were Southern Baptists and that, unless we were willing to walk away completely from the SBC, then we had an obligation to stay engaged &#8211; at least ideologically.  After all, we are sending part of the tithes and offerings of our church members to the SBC.  We at least owe it to our churches to stay connected.</p>
<p>I had to agree.</p>
<p>Therefore, Paul and Todd Littleton, Marty Duren, David Phillips, John Elam, Alan Cross and I agreed to launch <a title="MissioScapes.com" href="http://www.missioscapes.com" target="_blank">MissioScapes.com</a> where we address the Missio Dei from a Southern Baptist context in several expressions (from rural to urban), but also with an eye toward things beyond our denomination.</p>
<p>It launched today, and we hope to bring you some great ideas alongside some that just won&#8217;t fly, but all of which we hope will spur you to think about fulfilling God&#8217;s mission to our world.  You&#8217;ll be reading interviews, book reviews and original articles from the the 7 editors and beyond.</p>
<p>Just for clarification, this effort is ideological and not political.  We will be addressing SBC related issues, among other things, but nobody needs or wants &#8220;a seat at the table&#8221; and we have no intention of sponsoring motions or resolutions.  Nor do we have any intent of being drawn into petty side discussions with those that do desire to dwell in the world of political mechanizations.</p>
<p>Oh, and 12 Witnesses is going nowhere.  I&#8217;ll still be posting here in the same vein that I have for the last couple of years and there may even be an occasion when I&#8217;ll post an article in both places.</p>
<p>I hope to see you around.</p>
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		<title>Where have you been?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Got a few questions recently about why I haven&#8217;t posted much.  Couple of reasons&#8230;</p>
<p>I went on vacation.  I came back from vacation tired (it was one of those where you come back less rested but also less stressed) to a pile of work, a three day plumbing project and the accusation from the youth group that my new full beard makes me look like Billy Mays.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s almost enough to make me shave, but Bonnie says, &#8220;It&#8217;s sexy,&#8221; and after 16 years of marriage, I take seriously anything that elicits such a response.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll have to give you the story on my toilet sometime, but I just don&#8217;t have the time to do that today.  It&#8217;s a long day with much to do.</p>
<p>See you soon.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/07/13/where-have-you-been/">July 13, 2009</a>, <a href='http://www.toward-the-goal.net' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>John Stickley</a> writes: Billy Mays, you say?  Can't wait to see a picture!

<abbr><em>John Stickleys last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TowardTheGoal/~3/wP8dxq74LPc/" rel="nofollow">Obama Man Can!</a></abbr></em></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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</span><p>Got a few questions recently about why I haven&#8217;t posted much.  Couple of reasons&#8230;</p>
<p>I went on vacation.  I came back from vacation tired (it was one of those where you come back less rested but also less stressed) to a pile of work, a three day plumbing project and the accusation from the youth group that my new full beard makes me look like Billy Mays.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s almost enough to make me shave, but Bonnie says, &#8220;It&#8217;s sexy,&#8221; and after 16 years of marriage, I take seriously anything that elicits such a response.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll have to give you the story on my toilet sometime, but I just don&#8217;t have the time to do that today.  It&#8217;s a long day with much to do.</p>
<p>See you soon.</p>
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		<title>No more comment security code</title>
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		<dc:creator>art rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had the comment security code in my comment field for a loooong time.  At one point it served to keep spam generating programs from commenting on my posts.  I think I can let other programs work behind the scenes to accomplish that now.</p>
<p>Why now?</p>
<p>Because I just had a brilliant piece of writing eaten by the exact same code on another blog.  Something that have neither the time nor inclination to attempt to duplicate&#8230;</p>
<p>And it caused me to think that others who might like to comment on this blog might have had the same thing happen to them.</p>
<p>And since I want discussion on this blog, things that might inhibit discussion should go.</p>
<p>So it has, at least for now.  We&#8217;ll see how it works.</p>
<p>I hope this will encourage more opinions in the future.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><em><strong>Update</strong></em></p>
<p>Ok.  Less that 24 hours and three spam messages.</p>
<p>Security code is back in.  Sorry.</p>
<p>For those who have had comments swallowed by a message that says you have an invalid security code, only to hit the back button and have your comment gone forever&#8230;</p>
<p>The only way around this that I have found is to make sure you highlight and copy your comment before submitting it.  I know it is a hoop through which to jump and one easily forgotten, but I fear I have no other suggestions.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/06/10/no-more-comment-security-code/">June 10, 2009</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: I've already been hit by one spam bot.

I have a feeling the security code is going to go back up.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/06/10/no-more-comment-security-code/">June 11, 2009</a>, <a href='http://sbcghostrecon.wordpress.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Quinn Hooks</a> writes: I had to do the same, Art. For some reason, I am getting spam from Russia and I can't read Russian!

<abbr><em>Quinn Hookss last blog post..<a href="http://sbcghostrecon.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/camp-mccall-making-a-difference-in-south-carolina/" rel="nofollow">Camp McCall making a difference in South Carolina</a></abbr></em></li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/06/10/pastoral-blogging-5a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pastoral Blogging 5a">Pastoral Blogging 5a</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/06/02/the-poll-thing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Poll Thing">The Poll Thing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/11/07/the-new-place/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The New Place">The New Place</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/06/09/moral-failings-in-ministry/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Moral Failings in Ministry">Moral Failings in Ministry</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/02/18/pastoral-blogging-easily-embed-you-tube/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pastoral Blogging:  Easily Embed You Tube">Pastoral Blogging:  Easily Embed You Tube</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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</span><p>I&#8217;ve had the comment security code in my comment field for a loooong time.  At one point it served to keep spam generating programs from commenting on my posts.  I think I can let other programs work behind the scenes to accomplish that now.</p>
<p>Why now?</p>
<p>Because I just had a brilliant piece of writing eaten by the exact same code on another blog.  Something that have neither the time nor inclination to attempt to duplicate&#8230;</p>
<p>And it caused me to think that others who might like to comment on this blog might have had the same thing happen to them.</p>
<p>And since I want discussion on this blog, things that might inhibit discussion should go.</p>
<p>So it has, at least for now.  We&#8217;ll see how it works.</p>
<p>I hope this will encourage more opinions in the future.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><em><strong>Update</strong></em></p>
<p>Ok.  Less that 24 hours and three spam messages.</p>
<p>Security code is back in.  Sorry.</p>
<p>For those who have had comments swallowed by a message that says you have an invalid security code, only to hit the back button and have your comment gone forever&#8230;</p>
<p>The only way around this that I have found is to make sure you highlight and copy your comment before submitting it.  I know it is a hoop through which to jump and one easily forgotten, but I fear I have no other suggestions.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/06/10/no-more-comment-security-code/">June 10, 2009</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: I've already been hit by one spam bot.

I have a feeling the security code is going to go back up.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/06/10/no-more-comment-security-code/">June 11, 2009</a>, <a href='http://sbcghostrecon.wordpress.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Quinn Hooks</a> writes: I had to do the same, Art. For some reason, I am getting spam from Russia and I can't read Russian!

<abbr><em>Quinn Hookss last blog post..<a href="http://sbcghostrecon.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/camp-mccall-making-a-difference-in-south-carolina/" rel="nofollow">Camp McCall making a difference in South Carolina</a></abbr></em></li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/06/10/pastoral-blogging-5a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pastoral Blogging 5a">Pastoral Blogging 5a</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/06/02/the-poll-thing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Poll Thing">The Poll Thing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2006/11/07/the-new-place/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The New Place">The New Place</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/06/09/moral-failings-in-ministry/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Moral Failings in Ministry">Moral Failings in Ministry</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/02/18/pastoral-blogging-easily-embed-you-tube/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pastoral Blogging:  Easily Embed You Tube">Pastoral Blogging:  Easily Embed You Tube</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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		<title>Hang in there&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Hey, it has been a phenominally full week.&nbsp; It has been a good one, but more than I could get to and blog.</p>
<p>Next week looks better and I will give you a few thoughts about the Missional and Institutional Church.&nbsp; Some things have gelled for me and I have come to some resolution now about where we are as a church and where we need to be.&nbsp; Perhaps it will be helpful to you.</p>
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</span><p>Hey, it has been a phenominally full week.&nbsp; It has been a good one, but more than I could get to and blog.</p>
<p>Next week looks better and I will give you a few thoughts about the Missional and Institutional Church.&nbsp; Some things have gelled for me and I have come to some resolution now about where we are as a church and where we need to be.&nbsp; Perhaps it will be helpful to you.</p>
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		<title>Mac in Black&#124;Phriday foto 07-04-08</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, no patriotic pictures of flags, kids or picnics.  Not even fireworks.</p>
<p>Some of you have noted that I was having trouble with my laptop over the last couple of weeks.  Turns out, the motherboard fried.  I took it in to a local Nerd Herd to confirm the suspicions and found out that, as expected, all was without hope.</p>
<p>I had backed up my information on an external hard drive I had purchased for our home, so there was no loss of data.  Just the grind of having to restore everything from a backup.</p>
<p>With the added pain of a whole new system.  :)</p>
<p>Yep.  I&#8217;ve done it.  I went over to the &#8220;dark side.&#8221;</p>
<p><a title="Glowing Apple" rel="lightbox[pics806]" href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/glowing-apple.jpg"><img class="alignleft attachment wp-att-807" style="float: left;" src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/glowing-apple.jpg" alt="Glowing Apple" width="297" height="197" /></a>Yours truly is now sporting a brand new Macbook Black.  No, not the Pro Series laptops, but I&#8217;m happy with the one I have.  I know some are getting those high end laptops, but I have no idea how they have the money for it.  Here&#8217;s a picture of the glowing white Apple on the back in the darkness of my home office as I take a break from working on my sermon.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t completely grasped the organizational structure, but they tell me it makes more sense when you do &#8220;get it.&#8221;  I pray I &#8220;get it&#8221; soon.</p>
<p>I will say, though, that it is fast.  Much faster than my old XP machine and light years ahead of my wife&#8217;s Vista machine.  Yikes.  That looks like a complete waste of money now.  She waits and waits for it to do ANYTHING, but this Macbook just flies through whatever you tell it to do.</p>
<p>Also, shutting down and booting up is AWESOME.  It&#8217;s almost NO TIME!</p>
<p>I still have to convert my iPod over to mac sync now.  I have no idea how well that will go, but I hope it goes as easily and quickly as importing all of my music from the external hard drive into iTunes.  Drag, drop and wait 20 mins to convert tons of audio, video and everything else.  Done.</p>
<p>Oh.  And it is light.  It&#8217;s not the &#8220;<a title="Macbook Air" href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/" target="_blank">Macbook Air</a>,&#8221; but it is probably half the weight of my former laptop.</p>
<p>Finally, thanks to the advice of David Phillips, we got the extended warranty, which takes the 1 yr hardware and 90 phone support to 3 years each.  David said that you should always do this with a laptop, because the manufacturers don&#8217;t allow you to simply buy and replace broken parts.  If you break something, particularly something important, you have to send it in.  Pretty soon, it is cheaper to simply buy a new computer.</p>
<p>Of course, that is how we got to where we are now, so we learned our lesson.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve set up Firefox already and imported all my bookmarks with the <a title="Firefox Add On: Foxmarks" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410" target="_blank">Foxmarks Add-On</a>.  It syncs your bookmarks, personal structure and all, to the net and allows you to log on and bring them to another computer using Firefox.</p>
<p>Final thing:  The whole &#8220;it just works&#8221; thing that mac users always throw around to pc users when their stuff is grinding and glitching&#8230;  they don&#8217;t seem to be lying.</p>
<p>There you have it, boys and girls.  Another one goes over&#8230;</p>
<p>As for the foto, I know it&#8217;s not much, but it is my first effort with the mac and using iPhoto with my Canon DSLR.  I like the program.  It looks promising.  I&#8217;ll reserve judgement to see if it is as good as Adobe Lightroom, which is what I have been using.</p>
<p>You can check out my pre-Mac pics at the ol&#8217; <a title="12 Witnesses Photoblog" href="http://photoblog.twelvewitnesses.com" target="_blank">photoblog</a>.</p>
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Rob - UK [Mac user too :) - oh and Baptist pastor as a sideline :) ]

oh - and happy colonies day !</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://iemissional.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Marty Duren</a> writes: "Welcome, Anakin."

Marty Durens last blog post..<a href="http://iemissional.com/2008/06/29/taking-a-break/" rel="nofollow">Taking a Break</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: Rob - I love the English sense of humor.  Thanks. :)

Marty, if I'm Anakin...</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://www.kevinbussey.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Kevin Bussey</a> writes: Welcome,

You know what they say..."Once you go Mac, you'll never go back!"

I love mine

Kevin Busseys last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ConfessionsOfARecoveringPharisee/~3/326498344/" rel="nofollow">What would Jesus fly?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, Bart Rhea writes: Anakin?</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, Bart Rhea writes: Skywalker or Solo?</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://blog.wordsarenotenough.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Joe Kennedy</a> writes: Declare your independence from Microsoft, Art.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://hipopinion.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Hip Opinion</a> writes: I'll never go Mac... Never, never, never :)

Unless somebody buys me one for my birthday LOL

Hip Opinions last blog post..<a href="http://hipopinion.com/?p=53" rel="nofollow">What’s the difference between AA and church?</a></li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/04/11/phriday-foto-04-11-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 04-11-08">Phriday foto 04-11-08</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/05/11/phriday-foto-5-11-07/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 5-11-07">Phriday foto 5-11-07</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/06/08/phriday-foto-06-08-07/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 06-08-07">Phriday foto 06-08-07</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/01/04/phriday-foto-01-04-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 01-04-08">Phriday foto 01-04-08</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/04/25/phriday-foto-04-25-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 04-25-08">Phriday foto 04-25-08</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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</span><p>Sorry, no patriotic pictures of flags, kids or picnics.  Not even fireworks.</p>
<p>Some of you have noted that I was having trouble with my laptop over the last couple of weeks.  Turns out, the motherboard fried.  I took it in to a local Nerd Herd to confirm the suspicions and found out that, as expected, all was without hope.</p>
<p>I had backed up my information on an external hard drive I had purchased for our home, so there was no loss of data.  Just the grind of having to restore everything from a backup.</p>
<p>With the added pain of a whole new system.  :)</p>
<p>Yep.  I&#8217;ve done it.  I went over to the &#8220;dark side.&#8221;</p>
<p><a title="Glowing Apple" rel="lightbox[pics806]" href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/glowing-apple.jpg"><img class="alignleft attachment wp-att-807" style="float: left;" src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/glowing-apple.jpg" alt="Glowing Apple" width="297" height="197" /></a>Yours truly is now sporting a brand new Macbook Black.  No, not the Pro Series laptops, but I&#8217;m happy with the one I have.  I know some are getting those high end laptops, but I have no idea how they have the money for it.  Here&#8217;s a picture of the glowing white Apple on the back in the darkness of my home office as I take a break from working on my sermon.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t completely grasped the organizational structure, but they tell me it makes more sense when you do &#8220;get it.&#8221;  I pray I &#8220;get it&#8221; soon.</p>
<p>I will say, though, that it is fast.  Much faster than my old XP machine and light years ahead of my wife&#8217;s Vista machine.  Yikes.  That looks like a complete waste of money now.  She waits and waits for it to do ANYTHING, but this Macbook just flies through whatever you tell it to do.</p>
<p>Also, shutting down and booting up is AWESOME.  It&#8217;s almost NO TIME!</p>
<p>I still have to convert my iPod over to mac sync now.  I have no idea how well that will go, but I hope it goes as easily and quickly as importing all of my music from the external hard drive into iTunes.  Drag, drop and wait 20 mins to convert tons of audio, video and everything else.  Done.</p>
<p>Oh.  And it is light.  It&#8217;s not the &#8220;<a title="Macbook Air" href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/" target="_blank">Macbook Air</a>,&#8221; but it is probably half the weight of my former laptop.</p>
<p>Finally, thanks to the advice of David Phillips, we got the extended warranty, which takes the 1 yr hardware and 90 phone support to 3 years each.  David said that you should always do this with a laptop, because the manufacturers don&#8217;t allow you to simply buy and replace broken parts.  If you break something, particularly something important, you have to send it in.  Pretty soon, it is cheaper to simply buy a new computer.</p>
<p>Of course, that is how we got to where we are now, so we learned our lesson.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve set up Firefox already and imported all my bookmarks with the <a title="Firefox Add On: Foxmarks" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410" target="_blank">Foxmarks Add-On</a>.  It syncs your bookmarks, personal structure and all, to the net and allows you to log on and bring them to another computer using Firefox.</p>
<p>Final thing:  The whole &#8220;it just works&#8221; thing that mac users always throw around to pc users when their stuff is grinding and glitching&#8230;  they don&#8217;t seem to be lying.</p>
<p>There you have it, boys and girls.  Another one goes over&#8230;</p>
<p>As for the foto, I know it&#8217;s not much, but it is my first effort with the mac and using iPhoto with my Canon DSLR.  I like the program.  It looks promising.  I&#8217;ll reserve judgement to see if it is as good as Adobe Lightroom, which is what I have been using.</p>
<p>You can check out my pre-Mac pics at the ol&#8217; <a title="12 Witnesses Photoblog" href="http://photoblog.twelvewitnesses.com" target="_blank">photoblog</a>.</p>
<img src="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/eadd809f/266bb3f0/CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).gif" /><hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, Robert Dando writes: and now you know that with deeper rooted conviction that the most passionate Baptist Identity folk, us Mac users know - we are right!

Rob - UK [Mac user too :) - oh and Baptist pastor as a sideline :) ]

oh - and happy colonies day !</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://iemissional.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Marty Duren</a> writes: "Welcome, Anakin."

Marty Durens last blog post..<a href="http://iemissional.com/2008/06/29/taking-a-break/" rel="nofollow">Taking a Break</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://twelvewitnesses.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>art rogers</a> writes: Rob - I love the English sense of humor.  Thanks. :)

Marty, if I'm Anakin...</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://www.kevinbussey.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Kevin Bussey</a> writes: Welcome,

You know what they say..."Once you go Mac, you'll never go back!"

I love mine

Kevin Busseys last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ConfessionsOfARecoveringPharisee/~3/326498344/" rel="nofollow">What would Jesus fly?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, Bart Rhea writes: Anakin?</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, Bart Rhea writes: Skywalker or Solo?</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://blog.wordsarenotenough.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Joe Kennedy</a> writes: Declare your independence from Microsoft, Art.</li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/07/04/mac-in-blackphriday-foto-07-04-08/">July 4, 2008</a>, <a href='http://hipopinion.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Hip Opinion</a> writes: I'll never go Mac... Never, never, never :)

Unless somebody buys me one for my birthday LOL

Hip Opinions last blog post..<a href="http://hipopinion.com/?p=53" rel="nofollow">What’s the difference between AA and church?</a></li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/04/11/phriday-foto-04-11-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 04-11-08">Phriday foto 04-11-08</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/05/11/phriday-foto-5-11-07/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 5-11-07">Phriday foto 5-11-07</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2007/06/08/phriday-foto-06-08-07/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 06-08-07">Phriday foto 06-08-07</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/01/04/phriday-foto-01-04-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 01-04-08">Phriday foto 01-04-08</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2008/04/25/phriday-foto-04-25-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Phriday foto 04-25-08">Phriday foto 04-25-08</a></li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &copy; Art Rogers|12 Witnesses 2008<br /> This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. <br /> The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. If you suspect copyright infringement, please contact legal@twelvewitnesses.com.  Thanks.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 4fb9806df94a8f093ce1b84a21d62535 (38.107.179.240) )</small>
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