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Jordan Fowler
Pastor of Worship and Communicative Arts
NorthWood Church.

We have this young theologian in our church named Mark. He brought Carlos Santana to church Sunday. He brought his guitar and rocked the place. We've been studying the children of Israel and how they crossed over with implications of what does it mean for our church to cross over to the next phase, and what does it mean for us as individuals to cross over to a deeper walk with Christ. There are all kinds of metaphors and typologies of that in the Exodus out of Egypt. We were emailing about it and he said something really good, "The preaching of the cross isn't just for the lost but for the saved." I like that. For the lost, the preaching of the cross is to be received. For the found, the preaching of the cross it is to be lived.

Met two cool and prominent Dallas businessmen yesterday named Jim and Joe. They get transformation. It's what they're all about. They do critiques of various ministries generally in the DFW area in hopes of mobilizing people and increasing effectiveness. We talked a lot about moving the focus from preacher and church to disciple and society--they got it, they've had it for a good while! I'm so amazed at how we "preachers" have gotten so far behind the learning curve on all this. I don't think it's hard to understand why so much time is given to "our stuff" in terms of worship and ministries of the church that we can have all this really good stuff going on without ever connecting with the community.