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		<title>exponential09 session notes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/exponential09-session-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to process as much as possible from conferences such as Exponential I try to take decent notes from each session.  I can honestly say that out of the three years I have attended, I have taken more out of this past week personally than the previous two years combined.  Of course, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=411&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>exponential 09&#8230;prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third year I have had the opportunity to attend the National New Church Conference in Orlando, which has been renamed Exponential.  Each year so far has effected me in different ways.  The first year I attended with friends from North Carolina who had felt led to plant a church so I tagged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=385&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>maybe lusting isn&#8217;t a bad idea&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the few benefits of a long road trip is the chance to catch up on some of my podcasts.  Our Easter trip was no exception.  As my family slept I pulled out my IPhone and E4 headphones and illegally proceeded to listen  some Matt Chandler, who is the lead pastor of The Village [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=397&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the next few weeks&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is April and time is flying!  This month for the past two years has been one of the toughest because of everything hitting at once.  Already at this point the list of &#8220;to-do&#8217;s&#8221; and calendar events are stacking up: This weekend I am going camping with the family and then heading to Detroit on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=386&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>consistency, or lack of&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me how inconsistent I seem to be, even with something that I am craving more than anything in my current season of life!   Specifically for the past several months I have set a goal to study more, pray more, practice spiritual disciplines more, and it seems like the harder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=389&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>busy busy busy&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[church planting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[frank viola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pagan christianity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With grad school work piling up and a plethora of books that I want to digest I haven&#8217;t much time to post.  I am looking forward to continuing the series on The Church but want to research a little more before I vent my opinion about the modern day church world. In the meantime, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=383&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>can you hear it?</title>
		<link>http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/can-you-hear-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[discipleship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I confessed that I have a soft spot for sentimental movies that tug on the heart strings.  It is usually the movies that climax with a community rallying together behind an underdog that I am referring to.  However, for a different reason, I need to include August Rush into my list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=375&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE CHURCH part 1: what does a disciple look like?</title>
		<link>http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/disciple-part-1-what-does-it-look-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My head has been buzzing lately with thoughts about the church.  Books that I have read, conversation after conversation I have had with friends of mine, and personal struggles that I have wrestled with in my mind all lead me to the same question.  Is the church doing what it was commissioned to do, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=368&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>disciplined grace&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/disciplined-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  And although I do wonder about it sometimes I also realize that God&#8217;s grace is sufficient, even for my ridiculously unstable spiritual life.  Speaking of good intentions, lately I have been constantly dreaming about how much closer to God I could be, if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=360&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>can i get a witness&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://communityinfluence.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/can-i-get-an-amen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davefarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Stetzer happens to be a pioneer of church planting and author of several emerging church books.  He recently spoke at a church planting conference in Atlanta and posted the notes to his blog.  To be honest I was completely blown away with what he had to say as I read through the notes.  To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communityinfluence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636880&amp;post=353&amp;subd=communityinfluence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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