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	<title>Comments on: Sermon: Christ-Centred Priorities</title>
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	<description>Dave Faulkner. Husband. Dad. Methodist minister. Pseudo-geek. Music lover.</description>
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		<title>By: Dave Faulkner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Faulkner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, thanks for the encouragement, Owen. I could get on my high horse about churches which define themselves by their programmes. Even claims to friendliness can be consumerist appeals. Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.roxburghmissionalnet.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=116:derivaties-with-twist&amp;catid=44:culture&amp;Itemid=89&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;, which I hope to blog about - I&#039;ve just seen it tonight. Especially watch the video interview with the Aussie author, and his story of how a 9000-strong church with 100 pastors missed a tragedy on their doorstep.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, thanks for the encouragement, Owen. I could get on my high horse about churches which define themselves by their programmes. Even claims to friendliness can be consumerist appeals. Take a look at <a href="http://www.roxburghmissionalnet.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=116:derivaties-with-twist&amp;catid=44:culture&amp;Itemid=89" rel="nofollow">this link</a>, which I hope to blog about &#8211; I&#8217;ve just seen it tonight. Especially watch the video interview with the Aussie author, and his story of how a 9000-strong church with 100 pastors missed a tragedy on their doorstep.</p>
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		<title>By: Owen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for this, Dave...

I&#039;m currently in the process of designing a website for our church, and one of the biggest things I&#039;m looking at is , what are our priorities? And how do we present those priorities to those who may be looking at our site, perhaps looking for a church to attend?

In my research for this, I started with looking at other church websites.....so far, 
about 200-ish.  While I mainly did this simply for layout and content ideas,   I saw quite a bit of what other churches consider to be their priorities, things like how many campuses they have, how many hundreds of people fit in their sanctuary, or how many awards their church has won recently.
Some seem to focus on how friendly they are, how many different programs they have.

And there were also those that , quite obviously, made Jesus their priority. They tried their best to offer, well, what Jesus offers us. Now, they had really well-put-together websites, but one hardly noticed that part - just that the Son of God wants a relationship with you, the reader.

Thanks for your reminder of priorities. Your concluding paragraph will be one that I refer to for a long time to come.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for this, Dave&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m currently in the process of designing a website for our church, and one of the biggest things I&#8217;m looking at is , what are our priorities? And how do we present those priorities to those who may be looking at our site, perhaps looking for a church to attend?</p>
<p>In my research for this, I started with looking at other church websites&#8230;..so far,<br />
about 200-ish.  While I mainly did this simply for layout and content ideas,   I saw quite a bit of what other churches consider to be their priorities, things like how many campuses they have, how many hundreds of people fit in their sanctuary, or how many awards their church has won recently.<br />
Some seem to focus on how friendly they are, how many different programs they have.</p>
<p>And there were also those that , quite obviously, made Jesus their priority. They tried their best to offer, well, what Jesus offers us. Now, they had really well-put-together websites, but one hardly noticed that part &#8211; just that the Son of God wants a relationship with you, the reader.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reminder of priorities. Your concluding paragraph will be one that I refer to for a long time to come.</p>
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