Monthly Archives: March 2009
Seeing The Big Picture
In his devotional, “How The Bible Is Structured,” Charles Stanley tells us that the Bible reveals God’s plan for “redeeming mankind from enslavement to sin.” Stanley goes on to remind us that, “even though God’s Word must necessarily be read and studied in pieces, do not forget that it does function as a whole. Once you understand the Bible’s outline, you can see how the Lord works in individual books and chapters.” In saying this Stanley makes a critical point that pastors and Bible teachers often forget. The Bible must be considered as a single, integrated document.
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Welcome to the DMI Forum
This forum got a big boost when I discovered how to merge posts from here with posts from Technologia kai o Poimenas (Technology And The Pastor), which is located at tkp.dmin.org. I am bringing the posts over about once a week. The two forums are similar, but here the focus is more on using technology in ministry, while Technologia kai o Poimenas is more about the ministry that technology empoweres. You might consider the distinction insignificant, but I felt that it was necessary to protect the ministers from the geeks. The only thing is that I can’t truly define either of those terms, and even if I could, I wouldn’t be sure which forum was appropriate for …. Oh well, anyway, I’ve gotten some content for this forum to get it going.
I hope this will become a forum for the free exchange of ideas on the ways God wants His Church to use technology. Your ideas are welcome and very much needed. This forum will be much better, and more useful, without me doing all the writing. So, if you would like to enter posts, just register and get going, or email me and let me know so I can setup an account for you. You can get me at: john@dmin.org.
Also please visit Technologia kai o Poimenas (Technology and the Pastor) at tkp.dmin.org. The content there will be different in the future. As I said, there I am hoping to minister to pastors and other ministry leaders directly, so it is part of what I have been doing with Digital Ministries all along. The idea is that I can post resources and threads that will be helpful to folks. Have a look at what’s there now, and then contribute something.
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