Terry Pruitt's Blog

I am ready for my Corrie to come home. Come home Cor-O-badoro.

jmarkbertrand.com - the Internet site of J. Mark Bertrand : "If you want to learn more about the ESV Journaling Bible and you don't want to wait for my re-cap, head over to Gareth Russell's blog and check out his excellent, well-illustrated review. (Thanks, Gary, for pointing it out in the comments on the last post.) Also, check out the mention of Gareth's post on Moleskinerie, the all-things-Moleskine blog. " Check out this nifty blog.

TheIrvins: Home from the Hospital : "Home from the Hospital" Rebecca Writes mentioned that Tim Irving needs prayer. You might venture over to Tim's blog and read his story and say a prayer for him.

del.icio.us/pruittcommunications : "del.icio.us / pruittcommunications / I have been using del.icio.us for a couple of months now. It is a way of making a set of bookmarks public. So here is my del.icio.us page.

To fight insomnia I played around with WikiMapia. I added a couple of my childhood places to the list of places, and a couple of churches I attended. It is fun way to share your knowledge. Tags: wiki

I thought this article by Doc Searls was excellent. Markets without Marketing | Linux Journal : "As I prepare for that, I thought I'd share some of the curriculum I've come up with. I'm looking for constructive feedback, suggestions and Stories From the Real World that might be useful to the tutorial. Here we go... I. The Matrix is a metaphor for marketing II. As Markets become truly free, we don't have much, if any, need for marketing. III. Advertising is going to die. PR is already dead. IV. The operative word is Relate. V. There's no substitute for a good product. Or the only people who can improve it. VI. Work the Because Effect. You'll make more money that way.

I met with the Gadfly's Muse and the Jollyblogger for breakfast on Thursday. We talked about church planting in the Ann Arundel County area. Bits of wisdom I gleaned from the breakfast time talk. The essential element for a pastor is a love for the people. Preaching is important, but people will endure imperfect preaching if they discern a heart of love. The essential element for a church planter is vision to see something come to fruition. Formal qualifications are less important than actually doing the ministry. Doing the work of the ministry is analogous to scientist forming a hypothesis and then testing it, then adjusting the hypothesis, and continuing the cycle. A scientist starts with an initial hypothesis and it is not so important that he have the exact right hypothesis, just that he has a starting point and make adjustments afterwards. As long as he has a process by which he continually adjusts his knowledge, he is on the path toward truth. It is not so important...

What is the difference between evangelism and missions? Often when we speak of missions, we mean reaching across cultural barriers to speak the good news of God's forgiveness. Some people would define missions in terms of mercy ministry, but I would have to quibble with this definition. My own definition for missions is evangelism that takes the message of the grace of God to every nation tribe and tongue. Every tribe and tongue means those both near and far. Missions means taking seriously the cultural dynamics of the hearers of the message of God's grace. It means respecting the hearers of the message and taking their needs seriously. For most people, evangelism is an unobtainable duty, something that they just don't know how to do. To explain the good news of God's grace in a winsome way is just not within their natural skill set. This is why the work of evangelism must be done in community. So evangelism must take place in a multi-layered fashion. The ...

My wife and I went to Bethel College in McKenzie, TN. This is the Cumberland Presbyterian denominational college. We met many good friends there. Cindy Maddux is one of our friends from college days. She is our guest blogger today. She responded to the poll and sent me some of her comments which I am including here. By the way, if you have not taken my poll on church planting, please do so. It is the post prior to this one. Thoughts of church planter Cindy Maddux who is a part of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church As to voting whether SUNDAY worship is essential to a church plant then I will say no. WORHSIP is essential but with today's society it's more like Saturday night or Friday night and then if you have those that are tradition bound you could say AND a Sunday service. The needs of the initial group drive when and where you meet. I am in a church plant now. It's been two years and we are just now getting to where we need to be for spiritual growth in numbers. Ultim...

Some of you may have been a part of a church plant. Some of you might be qualified because you have actually been a part of a church at some point in your life. I would like to hear what you think. Please take my poll. Free Web poll for your Web site - freepolls.com Technoratic Tags: poll , church planting , Christianity , ministry , new , church .