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Old 07-26-2011, 06:27 PM   #76
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Default Re: Local Church Double-Speak

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"If we could just return to Eldon Hall in the 60s." Or "Plainview in 65." (Don't ask. Plainview is a blip on the map between Lubbock and Amarillo with a Baptist college.)
Or Akron in 69. After that Seven Spirits Conference in Erie. Being from Ohio, I often heard about that. Never was there though.

I have found that "how good a meeting is" to us often is unrelated to the meeting at all, whether free form or structured. Being in the LC's for so many years, I was in all kinds of meetings, all kinds of places, all kinds of shapes and sizes.

The meeting format can help a little. Good messages can help. Exciting attendants can help too. But the primary ingredient is our heart, how hungry our heart is for the Lord. A hungry heart can find the Lord richly in any place.

Actually spending all our time on meeting formats can be just a waste of time. We researched that topic to death. No one ever spent more time examining meeting formats than we did.
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