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		<title>Should We Hire Staff That Doesn&#8217;t Attend Our Church?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m learning of more and more churches that make it a policy to hire staff that doesn’t attend their church. I find this very interesting. Tim Stevens, in his post Work Here? Attend Here says it’s about avoiding conflict. While I appreciate his opinion and am sure this is often the case, I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Behavior Is Our Witness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I definitely remember one of the things that stretched me most as a new believer. It wasn’t changing stuff that I had done previously, like eating too much, drinking too much, using bad language, looking a little too long at a beautiful lady walking by, etc. It wasn’t beginning to spend time in my Bible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Stolpe Stretched</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the privilege of being invited to &#8220;guest blog&#8221; on a friend&#8217;s blog. It&#8217;s Jon Stolpe Stretched. The post went up this morning. Pretty cool! The title is: Our Behavior Is Our Witness. It&#8217;s a few words on a corporate experience I had that stretched me as a Christ follower. How do you be &#8220;one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here They Are Again &#8230; The Fundamentals of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[church leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[continuous learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership boils down to what we do, not the results of a spiritual gifts assessment or Myers-Briggs survey. These are good tools to help evaluate an individual and their leadership “potential,” but they do not tell us whether or not a person is good at leadership. Going to school, no matter how advanced the degree(s) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Your Fault&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently re-read a booklet entitled, Culture Shift by Dr. Price Pritchett. One chapter was right to the point, in my view, concerning a common cultural characteristic in all organizations, but is especially prevalent in those where rapid change is the norm &#8230; like a growing church. The chapter is entitled, Taking Personal Responsibility for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The more I do this job, the more I realize that much of what I’ve learned over my years in corporate applies to managing the church.  “Doing church” each weekend is a lot about logistics.  You know … having everything you need, where you need it, when you need it.  Pulling this off, though, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Responsibilities of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember working with a group of employees on the manufacturing floor (many years ago) in an attempt to improve efficiency through a better layout and organization of the workspace.  I made a very interesting observation that, I believe, illustrates the significance of our responsibility to our staffs and organizations as leaders. I spent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automation &#8211; Friend or Foe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serving in the church is a very important part of spiritual development. And, as church leaders we should be asking more and more people to &#8220;get involved&#8221; in the various ministries of the church. I have often said, &#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as too many volunteers.&#8221; I remember a situation in our church where a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Auditorium Seating Capacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ's Church of the Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facility construction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was during a leadership team meeting that one of the best ideas I’d ever heard was suggested. Shortly after moving from a movie theater to our 19 acre site, into a building that was too small from the start, we were discussing our need to increase the seating capacity of the auditorium (multi-purpose space). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service Announcements</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for more creative ways to inform your congregation during services? There’s always tension between the need to get the word out about all that’s going on and the creation of “moments” in the service that inspire, teach, and transform. No service can afford a talking head for 5 minutes running through all that’s of [...]]]></description>
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