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gtroxell

7-8-2008 11:37 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/67259db4-52cd-437b-93e7-1f6dc0dc91c3/453F9A69-A378-4B5A-B8A6-E3BC33ADBF73/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.flowerdust.net/2008/07/07/the-competition-driven-church/" href="http://www.flowerdust.net/2008/07/07/the-competition-driven-church/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.flowerdust.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.flowerdust.net/2008/07/07/the-competition-driven-church/"><P>One of the problems I see plaguing unhealthy environments is ego.  Ego can be loud and abrasive or it can be subtle and deceiving.  Either way, it’s the antithesis of the character of Christ.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.flowerdust.net/2008/07/07/the-competition-driven-church/"><P>Society today is competitive.  We feel that our voices must be the loudest and carry the furthest in order to be heard and validated.  It breaks my heart when I hear pastors of small churches say, “we only had seventy-five people today” or “only two hundred people showed up.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.flowerdust.net/2008/07/07/the-competition-driven-church/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.flowerdust.net/img/BB7367EC-FFA8-4426-8219-003E23B512F5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.flowerdust.net/2008/07/07/the-competition-driven-church/"><P>Unfortunately, I think numbers have become an addiction.  We flaunt our numbers, we despise our numbers, we fret about our numbers.  Our numbers can validate us.  But they shouldn’t.  We have absolutely no right to know how God is using us.  We only need to know he is, and be grateful.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/453F9A69-A378-4B5A-B8A6-E3BC33ADBF73/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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