It is easy to hear ideas and claim them as truth with little personal thought. This approach to life tends to leave one with a collection of beliefs that are shallow, unfounded, and which are easily given up or held dogmatically. We will think about the process of moving from staking a claim to owning that claim, the process of developing well-developed, productive, personal beliefs.
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CONTRIBUTOR: Clifford Schrock
SERIES: REACH 2017
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- A Servant Heart
- An Effective Newsletter
- Attitude and Heartbeat of A Successful Volunteer
- Authentic Leadership
- Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility
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- Becoming A Global Christian
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- Beliefs: From Claiming to Owning
- Bible Translation: Why Not Leave It for Wycliffe?
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- Course Correction Panel Discussion
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- Cross-Cultural Ministry in Urban America
- Defending Your Faith
- Developing Your Leadership To-Be List
- Digging for Gold
- Dignity and Depravity
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- Effectively Leading a Team
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- Family as Ministry
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Financing Your Vision For Missions without Fundraisers!
- Finding and Refining Your Story
- Five Essential Traits of Christian Leadership
- Funding Your Ministry with Gifts of Net Worth
- Get in the Way of Evil
- God Loves Story
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- Graduation: Then What?
- Great Leaders
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- Leading and Chairing Meetings
- Lesson Components for Teaching
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- Life's Two Most Important Questions
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- Reevaluating Your Ministry
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- Stewards of Eternal Treasure
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- Working with Generation iY
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