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Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Paul_Kuzma — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:40:15 -0000

We all have our own take on this, don't we? It's a beautiful thing.

@brad How is "chenis" an "unwholesome" word? How is "penis" even an "unwholesome" word? Anyway....

Boil it all down, I think Los has got it as tight as it can humanly be. If we all understand that we'll never have everything right in our own humanity.

Almost everyone here is right, it seems. A church of any number of people should have a heart for the lost and do what they can and are designed by God to do to reach the lost.

My experience is that not every church is designed exactly the same way in terms of how or how many lost people they reach. Whether they're reaching a few or dozens or 100s or 1000s isn't the issue. The heart is the issue.

Amazing to me that God designed the physical body that we're all unique. Why wouldn't His spiritual "Body" be the same?

Just my thoughts....

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:30:11 -0000

Comparison of size, whether we are talking about how big a guy is or how big a church is, is ego-driven. Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:29:57 -0000

Comparison of size, whether we are talking about how big a guy is or how big a church is, is ego-driven. Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Chris Weiss — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:14:23 -0000

my chenis also gets really big around Christmas and Easter...go figure.

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Bill Whitt — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:34:12 -0000

I actually like bigger churches. Here's why... I live in a rural area with a tiny church on every corner. They're horribly underfunded and understaffed (usually sharing part-time preachers), and the pastors are barely qualified to do their jobs. If all these churches got together, they could afford to do great things and have a great communicator as their senior pastor! But as it is, they live in the land of mediocrity (if even rising to that level).

Do we NEED a church on every corner with three people attending each? The answer is, no, we don't! But these churches are so tied to their history (often driven by a single family), that they're not willing to change. So they're just waiting to die off. How sad!

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

karen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:54:18 -0000

Well since we're goin' there...Chenis size may not matter, but......

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Chris Weiss — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:11:02 -0000

Size doesn't matter...it's what you do with it!
But seriously, what is your church, or zurk, or whatever you want to call it, doing to impact the community around you? What is making a lasting impact? What is your chenis doing? that's what matters?

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

DAVID DRAKE — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:34:12 -0000

Brad...what makes it unwholesome? Are you implying that a penis is by it's nature unwholesome? Because if you are I have to say that my wife would disagree with you.

The point is very apt...and if you have an issue with church/penis references you should totally go blog against God for what he said in Ezekiel 23:20 and ask him why he would use such unwholesome words to refer to Israel.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Bill Stanley — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:21:08 -0000

So does size matter or not? LOL

Truthfully that is so true. I get tired of these types of luncheons and actually have stopped going to them.

You ask an average minister how "HE" is doing and they instantly talk about their church. I have to interrupt them and say, "I wasn't talking about your church."

oh, I wasn't leaving you out ladies ("SHE") it just seems that the fellas, seem to deal with this more, I don't know? Ask my female minister friends and they actually answer the question.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

brad — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:29:31 -0000

why use unwholesome words to make a valid point or question. Why?

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Los — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:09:34 -0000

That was to doug.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Los — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:08:59 -0000

Stretch, but I see your point kinda.
I just don't think that if one has 3 readers a day they are any less than 3000 a day.
So no. It doesn't matter.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Promise tangeman — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:39:19 -0000

ALL your chenises are important and special and can be used by God. Heh

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Dave © — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:41:20 -0000

I do not attend North Point and have only been there once in my life. But, from afar, this is the very thing I absolutely LOVE about it. While Andy (among others) is an extremely gifted communicator, the emphasis at NP is on smallness, as in small groups and personal relationships.

People are hurting everywhere, outside the church and inside the church. While great sermons will attract 2k-20k+ people every weekend, it has been my experience that lasting change comes only through messy conversations and involvement with others...which rarely occur during a weekend church service.

Which is all to say that Jesse's church, I mean zurk, theory is probably dead-on. So with that, the size of my zurk is 8 although a 9th is starting to grow. Would that make it and 8.25?

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

D.Lake — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:08:34 -0000

I like Malachi's Office reference.

So size doesn't matter in church community ... but does it matter in your blog stats?

Can't it be said that every person in church is a heartbeat, a story to tell ... same as blog stats.

I don't see the difference.

I think each church has a role to play. Some have a larger influence, some smaller. We are all on the same team - what role do we (individual churches) play in the Body of Christ is the question to me with regard to size.

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PatrickJohn — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:46:29 -0000

You are all crazy.... but awesome. I love the freshness of new ideas and words. Very Awesome

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Tara — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:40:08 -0000

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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ryanguard — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:20:18 -0000

upsidedown- chenis shrinkages are to be expected... especially when it's cold outside.

kerry- there's nothing average about Carlos's chenis. he said it had something to do with being half black. must be a georgia thing?

john- you're creepy, but i think that's what you were aiming for.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

kerry@colored with memories — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:50:32 -0000

good stuff. out of curiosity though...did you run the average on the numbers?

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Josh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:29:45 -0000

So true...it'd be nice if we (my church) could still take attendance but stop checking it every week and let God work. That would be an interesting change :-)

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upsidedown — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:01:20 -0000

My wife and I just left a church of about 800 to help a church plant of about 25. As George Costanza would exclaim, "There was shrinkage!!!"

Seriously tho, we could only make this move if we firmly believed that THE CHURCH matters more than a church.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

John — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:37:30 -0000

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Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Ruth Lang — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:36:04 -0000

that was funny
I actually came here because of the word chenis
i just had to find out what it was
lol now I know, still laughing

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

ryanguard — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:50:53 -0000

@nasolas I'll give you 12% and nothing more. I'll probably have to hook Kerry up too... he laughed more than you did.

Re: Ragamuffin Soul » How Big Is Your Chenis?

Russ — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:35:18 -0000

As long as there are still hundreds and thousands of people to reach in my community I will still count the ones we are reaching.

Numbers are important.

Comparing numbers is not.