Monday, September 11, 2006
The Core Team
- Ryan Wiksell - Pastor
- Christina Wiksell - Administrative Coordinator
- Josh Wilmoth - Discipleship Director
- Kris Wilmoth - Financial Coordinator
- Michael "Mik" Mikulan - Front Porch Project Manager
- Phillip Scoggins - Outreach Director
- Amy Scoggins - Arts Coordinator
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When you state that The Core's purpose is to "glorify God", what do you mean? At a conference I attended this past year, Louie Giglio described glory like this: Glory is what you talk about. When you talk up something or someone, you give glory to it or them. When you go watch a movie and then tell all your friends, coworkers and family members they should go see it, you're giving glory to that movie. When you wear a band or product t-shirt, you are giving glory to it. Subsequently, when you don't talk about something, you neglect to give it any glory. So when you say your purpose is to give glory to God, do you mean that who you are and what you do and say will clearly and publicly praise Jesus Christ? Will The Core elevate Him as supreme in all things, or will it elevate people, ideas, ethics, or anything else above Him? How will it be evident that you are elevating Him above these things, if indeed that is your aim?
1:32 PM
Regarding The Core's "Purpose", the terms seem a little thin in their explanation. It seems like things we've heard a hundred times before. What makes The Core's purpose unique? Many other churches claim to share these "purposes", but don't seem to accomplish them for a variety of reasons. For example, in most evangelical churches it seems that there is a disconnect between what they call "discipleship" (i.e. Bible study, mentorship, prayer, etc.) and what the Bible teaches about it (i.e. a completely surrendered life, including financial decisions, time, career, health, sexuality, social justice, etc.). Can you provide links to a more detailed explanation of each of these? You also didn't highlight magnification or Kingdom advancement, so it'd be helpful to get your thoughts on those as well, if they are indeed what you exist for.
1:43 PM
Regarding glory, of course it's easy to get off-track and glorify ideology above Christ. So that is one of the things we'll be watching each other's backs for. But let me submit an extra definition of glory, and that's 'credit'. When say, "To God be the glory, great things He has done," we are giving Him all the credit for His accomplishments.
And regarding the purposes, I think you have to concede that a lack of depth on a church's website does not indicate a lack of depth in the church's teaching. In other words, I agree with you 100%, but I plan to leave at least a couple of things to the web-reader's imagination. At least until he or she decides to dig further in.
3:31 PM
Credit... that's a good addition to the glory definition, since it's the way most people use the word.
4:43 PM
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