January 20th, 2010 
alandanielson Writing down my core values is one of the most important personal-growth activities I’ve ever undertaken. When I started out I thought, “This will be easy” but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Boiling down the 7 to 10 values that most matter to me was actually really tough. It took me a few months [...]
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Tags: awareness, core, self, Self Awareness, value, values 
No Comments » July 3rd, 2009 alandanielson Many Churches (right or wrong) are boiling groups down to three values. Churches sometimge give these three values different names, but they typically represent the following words: Community, Discipleship, Mission. When I’m talking to these churches I find that they feel like they do community and discipleship pretty well but don’t do mission very well. They [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: community, Discipleship, Evangelism, fellowship, group, groups, mission, small, values No Comments » June 25th, 2009 alandanielson While I was at LifeChurch.tv we merged the Missions and Small Group teams together. When I share that with pastors who I’m consulting about their small group ministries they frequently scratch their heads and say something like, “I don’t see the natural connection between those two ministries.” I’d like to say we merged the teams [...]
