Today @ The Gathering we completed our series, “Chasing Balance” with the seventh principle, the principle of renewal.
We discovered the four enemies of balance in our lives.  They are:
1.    The enemy of greed.
2.    The enemy of jealousy.
3.    The enemy of entitlement.
4.    The enemy of apathy.
We took an assessment to see if one of these enemies [...]

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I received a great comment last week from Aaron who asked, “Should a church ever build a building or should it continue to meet in public space?” Since I’ve had a little experience with that, I want to respond with the seven conditions under which you should never build.

1.    You should never build within the [...]

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One of the last things I want to say is this.  Having started a church in a school for 10 years in Metro, I can tell you that this school was much better off when we left than when we got there.  As a church we invested in the people and the teachers in the [...]

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Today @ The Gathering was incredible and both services were exciting with so many new faces coming from all over to hear the message of hope.  Our vision that The Gathering would come to be a great church that people love coming to has come true right before our eyes.
This week we continued in our [...]

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The very same people who don’t want churches to use classrooms in the public schools are the very same people who whine and complain about how bad life and society are.  Just recently I heard that one of our major malls in Nashville is closing, not because they don’t have business or product, but because [...]

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In a recent article in the Review Appeal, the headline read, “Sunday School Use Curtailed.” This referred to the fact that a church in our area called GracePointe, a good church, a very good church by the way, had been denied the use of classrooms in a school they had been renting for several years. [...]

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Today @ The Gathering we continued in our present series, “Chasing Balance” with installment number four, the principle of “Rhythm.”
If it’s important to work, it’s also important to rest. Striking the balance of working enough and resting enough is a lifelong discipline.
Usually, most Americans err on the side of working too much, or at [...]

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