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When God Speaks

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In purchasing my airline ticket to travel to Egypt, I tried to route myself through Rome on Alitalia. I fly Delta and its Skyteam partners. The Delta website routinely routes flights through Paris and their Air France partner.

I wanted to fly Alitalia, who is also a Skyteam partner. But I couldn’t get the Delta website to book a flight through Rome.

Now I know why God didn’t let me book this trip on Alitalia. From the paper here in Paris today:

Thousands of travelers were left stranded on Tuesday because of a strike by Italian air traffic controllers and Alitalia flight attendants that forced the cancellation of hundreds of domestic and international flights.

The Italian national carrier, Alitalia, alone canceled 394 flights Tuesday because of the 10 am – 6 pm strike.

Other international carriers also canceled flights because of the walkout by air traffic controllers.

God used the Delta website to prevent me from booking a ticket on the route I thought I wanted to take.

When God speaks, we are wise to listen.

Closing comments at MinistryNet 2007 :: Bangkok

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Keith at MinistryNetKeith’s closing comments at MinistryNet 2007 :: Bangkok.

God’s blessing will fill our current capacity, then his blessing will stop. If we want to see greater blessing, we must grow greater capacity. Growing capacity is an act of faith. Risky faith.

MinistryNet 2007 :: Bangkok is about growing our capacity for internet ministry so that God can bless us with increased fruitfulness.

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Connecting laborers to best practices

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Personal Disciple-Making by Chris AdsitOur Global ConneXion community-building tool continues to grow in use around the world.

The discussion in the GCX Community from Australia called DiscipleshipThinkTank continues to get even more interesting. Their community description (from the Browse Communities listing) is:

We want to sharpen our ability to disciple people online by applying the principles found in Chris Adsit’s book “Personal Disciple-making” in the environment of ARC. The team leader is Bob Prouty from CCC Australia.

Recently, the community owner invited the author of the book to join the community. So here we have the author of a significant book as a member of the community discussing with online mentors how to apply his principles of disciple-making using the ARC system.

Great combination of CCCI resources: GCX provides the venue for discussion, learning and sharing best practice ideas, ARC provides the venue for implementing and testing the ideas, and a staff member provides the creativity and spark to launch and shepherd a great discussion.

The focus of this discussion is about shaping the initial follow-up letter to new Christians.

Well done, Bob!

CBN story on EveryStudent.com

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According to new research, 82 million Americans seek spiritual or religious information from the Internet – up from 28 million just five years ago.

“Sixty-four percent of Americans seek spirituality on the Internet, and as Christians, we need to be there for them,” said Craig von Buseck, director of ministries for CBN.com.

Recently, CBN reported on the exploding use of the internet for those seeking help with spiritual issues.

The report included a great video interview with a college student who came to Christ at the University of Virginia through Campus Crusade for Christ’s evangelistic website for students, EveryStudent.com.