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- Introduction
- A disciple of Jesus, cleverly disguised as a recovering drug addict and alcoholic.
- Name
- Joe
- Age and Gender
- 38
- City
- Hartland
- State:
- Wi
- Country:
- USA
- Where are you from?
- I was born and raised in the boondocks
- My Website:
- http://www.overcomersoutreach.org
- My other Website
- http://www.hopestreetministry.org
- Mac or PC
- PC
- Religious Preferences:
- Ev non dom
- Your astrological sign
- Aries
- Political Tendencies:
- Conservative
- What is your "cover" (occupation)?
- Engineer
- What is your vocation (passion)?
- Spiritual specwar
- What are you working on now (mission)?
- Bringing Christ and Him crucified to drunks and addicts
- If you could live anywhere in the world, what city would be your "Gotham"?
- Singapore or Seattle, maybe Innsbruck
- What leader from a feature film most reminds you of you?
- Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan"
- What leader from a feature film would you be most likely to follow?
- Spartacus
- Favorite Movies
- The Pirates of Penzanze, In Harm's Way, Bringing Up Baby
- If you pressed play on your iPod, what song would come up?
- Ball and Chain, Susan Ashton
- Favorite Music:
- Rockabilly/Punk Fusion
- Favorite Artists
- Monet
Susan Farmer
- What book(s) are you reading right now?
- Chasing Daylight
- Favorite Authors
- Tolkien
Lewis
S Briscoe
- Favorite Books
- No Comprimise
The Simirillion
Mere Christianity
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Scrubs
- What are your Super Powers (according to you and those who know you)?
- Success in spite of myself
- What is your given Superhero Name?
- Larryboy
- More About Me:
- Husband and Father
Global War on Terror Vet (US Navy-SW/SWCC)
Interested in hearing your thoughts on Discipleship, Spiritual warfare and Christian Recovery
- Relationship Status:
- Married
Joe Farmer's Discussions
On being "The Church"
Replied Sep. 13, 2007
On being "The Church"
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jean Sep. 23, 2007.
The Church in the Postmodern world.
Replied Jul. 31, 2007
Joe Farmer's Blog
Sinners and Tax Collectors
I came across an interesting quote in an article I read recently. “Two of the signs of a healthy church are sexual immorality and heresy.” It was printed in bold type, and just leaped off the page at me, demanding that I give it attention. How could anyone seriously make such an assertion? The very statement is, well, immoral and heretical!
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Posted on September 21, 2007 at 12:34pm — 1 Comment
Eliminate the Para-Church?
Posted on August 17, 2007 at 7:00am —
Events
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The Human Event – Michigan
Join us at Kensington Community Church (Troy, Michigan) on October 13-14 for a 2-day conversation on the future of the church in the post-Christian and Trans-human 21st century west.
Neil Cole (Organic Church) Alex McManus (M Network)
and You.
Who is the Human Event for? Forward thinking, missional activists, thinkers, and leaders. If you think that may be [...]
Holiness and Risk
A few hours after touching down back in Scotland from The International Mentoring Network’s Immersion experience in Orlando, I found myself in a conversation about a Methodist Church initiative called Holiness and Risk.
Is it okay if I tell you a little about this? It’s a really intriguing kind of thing that can emerge [...]
Tomorrow and How to Get There – The Futuristic
Tomorrow. Face it with either fear or anticipation, it doesn’t matter which, it is coming regardless of our grasp of it. Fortunes have been made marketing knowledge about tomorrow whether that tomorrow is 24 hours away or 100 years distant.
Fortune tellers make the promise that that can allay our fears with their prognostication [...]
Communities of Knowing
In his book, The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy tells the fictional story of a train that hurried through the countryside. The commuters on board saw the passing scenery as little more than a two-dimensional background rolling past their windows.
One day, though, the train breaks down and the commuters have to disembark by a [...]
Into the Beautiful Unknown (Cross-Posted)
Since Alex is publishing this blog post with the IMN newsletter, I thought it ought to have a link from the IMN as well. Enjoy. -Your friendly neighborhood editor-of-doom.
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I'm glad to be in contact. Let's see, I'm not sure I have anything to offer that you don't already know. I just can tell you what has worked for me. And again, it's probably stuff you already know.
The funny thing is this. I myself have just turned 29 and my two very closest and best friends in the world are 18 and 21 years old. It's funny because they actually were students that I once led youth group for. They have over the past 3 1/2 years grown from students to friends and more so now to almost like family. Many people caution me and find this to be so very odd that my closest friends are close to a decade younger than me, but they are the truest sense of the word "soul mates". I feel for them as David and Jonathan felt towards one another. They are so close to me now after years of investing and then mutual sharing of life.
I remember how hard it was to enter their worlds. We would spend formal time at youth group together and over the first months it was contact through planned events. As I began to get to know them more, it was the mutual sharing and not just trying to get to know them but also allowing them into my life equally. It was caring about what they really cared about even if I didn't agree with it. It was genuinely understanding their point of view not so I could figure out how to break it, but so I could really know them.
Yes, I think you're right that sometimes they aren't ready, but what I realized is that everybody need and craves, whether they admit it or not, someone who genuinely cares, someone who will not be afraid of the real them, someone who will fight for them, who will defend them, who will dare to draw near to them. A lot of the time, society says that those closest to us will be those who are most like us, but I challenge that. Especially when it comes to age. I do believe there is something with generations, but the reality is that many young people have been hurt by those older in their lives and the greatest thing is that we, like the church, have the opportunity to present what is real, what is genuine, regardless of the stereotypes that already exist.
And for us, we must not tire, we must not stop pursuing and being moved by the very Spirit indwelling us. We must not be discouraged when we are not received or welcomed, and blatantly rejected. We must pursue others for Christ and as Christ has pursued us in our disillusionment. And we must care so deeply for the person, and solely for that person. We must care beyond converting them, and we must genuinely just care for them. And we must be willing to enter their worlds, even if that causes us discomfort and potential risk. When they see that we genuinely care for them, they will be willing to find out more about us, and we must then be willing to share our lives as well. Lastly, we must be diligent to know rightly our identity and significance in Christ alone! that we will not be shaken when we are not received as we wished we had been or expected to be. We must be willing to abandon all expectations and let God alone be our only hope and expectation, knowing and trusting completely in God complete and utter sovereignty.
When we have the opportunity to engage in the lives of others, we must always see that sacrifice will provide opportunities for others. That if we abandon our agendas, our plans, our control, our comfort, and all that we know, we may be able to actually be able to draw out the greatness and potential that exists, which God placed, within them.
My mission in life is to share my life so intentionally and intimately with those who God has put around me. My vision is that people would discover their God given dreams and potential and that my sacrifice, intentionality and influence may impact their lives and that they would be unleashed to live with passion and focus. And my purpose is to show that from my life, from brokenness comes beauty that we cannot imagine, and ultimately that wholeness and healing come from hope. And ultimately our hope is Christ. I desire to live my life in response to the reality of the gospel, giving glory to God in all I do, and living in constant worship of him - that my life would be an offering to him, "all this for a King."
Again, nothing new, but this has been my journey.
All this,
Emily
We stay over when we go to Europe, usually on the way back to deal to jet lag and the time stuff.
I prefer to fly Singapore airways to Europe as I love the stop overs at Changi airport. Which i consider what all "Hubs" should be designed around.
I can turn a wrench and I like tea both! :-) ; but love coffee more - must be the Chief in me!
Richie