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		<title>Remembering A Giant In Global Missions</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2010/06/02/remembering-a-giant-in-global-missions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Re-publishing this on the one-year anniversary of his passing. His thought still shapes my own, and the few times we met still leave a lasting impression. If you&#8217;ve had a heart for missionary work overseas you may or may not have heard of the name &#8220;Ralph Winter&#8221;. Hands down, his was THE MOST influential voice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom From Tim Keller On Church Planting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this article terribly compelling (thanks to Daniel Eng for the heads up) &#8211; especially the following snippet &#8211; this has everything to do with defining * success * in church, or entrepreneurship, or just plain life: &#8220;The difference between a solid church and a terrible church is pretty much up to you,&#8221; he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Theology of Gaza, Part II</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2009/02/05/the-theology-of-gaza-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As per a past post I re-raise this issue where angels fear to tread; well, thank goodness no one reads my blog anyway. Professor of New Testament, Rikk Watts, here @ Regent College has given a chapel lecture titled: &#8220;Up Zion&#8217;s Hill: Imagining a New Jerusalem&#8221; &#8211; and I walk away feeling like I missed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subverting the Loneliness of Church Planting</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2009/01/29/subverting-the-loneliness-of-church-planting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovering how healing it is to be @ Regent &#8211; to talk about life, vocation, spirituality with other ministers-to-be. There is healing happening here in the context of community. But as I look back in my life I have not always had such support; where the resources of community have been made available to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas As Jihad</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/14/exile-and-the-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe last night&#8217;s sermon @ NCC that Christmas is &#8220;jihad&#8221; went too far. Perhaps better put: Christmas is an act of war against evil and suffering &#8211; I cited Greg Boyd briefly here and his thoughts on how the kingdom of God exists to aggressively counter the current status quo of a jacked-up mess of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Ekklesia</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/07/defining-ekklesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is a fancy-schmancy way of saying "What is church?"]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifiable Results in Church &amp; Missionary Endeavor</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/04/quantifiable-results-in-church-missionary-endeavor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further ponderings on the &#8220;success&#8221; question. Some may disagree but I think there is a legit need to define quantifiable progress in church / missionary endeavor. Sure numbers are not everything but I think it&#8217;s necessary to know what is the telos of our work. A paradigm of mission is needed. Do we do good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is &quot;Success&quot; in Church Planting?</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/03/what-is-success-in-church-planting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man it feels good to be back in Canada. The above title was the convo @ the church planters gathering in Bellingham (Hothouse). Some of the attention was turned on me as those gathered knew about my recent heartache of closing down a church. And so I was queried about how I felt and if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Planting For Beginners</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/11/18/church-planting-for-beginners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My trip to the east coast has elicited much reflection &#38; conversation about pastoring and starting new churches. I met with no less than 3 church planters while there and heard the glories and the &#8220;crap times&#8221; as one put it. I&#8217;m no church planting hotshot but i&#8217;ve got invaluable experience on several things that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Baptize?</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/11/12/how-do-you-baptize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grenz is waxing eloquent on the ecclesiological practice of baptism. I&#8217;m understanding more not only the theological and sacramental significance of the act, but more so the sociological significance of it. Being a Protestant of the &#8220;Reformed&#8221; strain, I don&#8217;t place heavy emphasis on the sacramental side as if the act itself were the mediator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loaning Vs. Giving&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2007/03/09/loaning-vs-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is long overdue. Nobel prize for microcredit pioneer I am so thrilled about this man, his idea and his legacy. Muhammad Yunus&#8216; ideas about microcredit have been stirring the mission world, charity and non-prof entities to new ways of approaching community development. Don&#8217;t give the poor a fish, don&#8217;t give them the proverbial fishing [...]]]></description>
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