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Andrew Wommack Devotional 9 June 2019 – Rebirth
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Open Heaven 9 June 2019 – Prayer is two-way Fellowship
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Church lead theft on the rise
Security experts have warned that the thieves will often get violent if confronted.
The survey was published by VPS Security Services, which is a specialist provider of vacant, occupied and site security solutions.
They found that there were on average 37 reports of lead theft from churches in Britain each month.
Last year, a security expert recommended that the theft of lead from church roofs be considered a hate crime.
Nick Tolson, head of National Churchwatch, an independent organisation that provides advice on crime and security for places of worship, said when arsonists attacked his church in Hampshire in 2015 for a second time, just weeks after a Bible was left burning at the altar in a previous attack, it wasn’t treated as religiously motivated.
“If a crime happens in a mosque or a synagogue, it is assumed to be a hate crime unless proved otherwise, but if it happens in a church it is assumed to be a normal crime,” Tolson told The Times at the time.
The National Crime Agency found that metal theft has risen by 25 per cent in a year.
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Notable Voices and the Week in Review: June 8, 2019
7 Steps to Move Members into Ministry — Chuck Lawless
How do you move members into ministry? Here are some basic principles we learned in a study published in my book, Membership Matters. That particular study is now dated, but our findings since then still confirm these steps.
5 Ways to Help Members Discover Their Spiritual Gifts — Juan Sanchez
While we tend to get hung up on particular gifts, in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul broadens the categories of gifts under the umbrella of the manifestation of the Spirit. Paul argues we manifest the Spirit when we serve one another (1 Corinthians 12:7). So, how do we help our members discover their areas of giftedness? Here are five suggestions.
Ditching Your Five-Year Plan — Katie McCoy
What happens when our plans fall through? When that hope we’ve been aiming at and working toward doesn’t materialize? When, because of our choices, someone else’s choices, or simply the sovereign hand of God, we look around and say to ourselves, “I didn’t sign up for this”?
The Problem with the One-Directional Preacher — Trevin Wax
As leaders, whether we have larger or smaller spheres of influence, we should want to get better at multi-directional leadership, and the way we will do so is by recognizing and resisting a number of temptations. Here’s the first.
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