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		<title>A deepening</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/a-deepening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened in the last ten years, but not like I expected. This was supposed to be the decade (37-47) during which I came into my prime. At least that&#8217;s what I thought was supposed to happen; you know&#8230;as a pastor, I would finally find myself leading a large, thriving church known far-and-wide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=37&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buttdriver (for Jana)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m 45 years old. I hold a masters degree in theology, and there are some (not many…but some) people who would consider me a success in my chosen career. For over 20 years I’ve been a professional religious person; a vendor of spiritual goods and services if you will. They call me “pastor” and mostly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=36&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of the Fence-builder and the Well-digger</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/the-tale-of-the-fence-builder-and-the-well-digger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, when trying to explain to someone why I do what I do, I wrote this parable: This is the story of two women; one was named “Fence-builder” and the other “Well-digger.” They lived in the same town, on the same street. Fence-builder was a strong and proud woman. Every day she went out to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=34&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I (too) have a dream&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/i-too-have-a-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I DREAM OF A CHURCH… Defined by relationships, not an address Led by shepherds, managed by leaders Where the Christian life is understood to be a journey Where worship is genuine, unfettered and communal Where new congregations are birthed before buildings are ever considered Where spiritual conversations are as common as talk about the weather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=31&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cairns, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/cairns-part-3-your-calling-to-shepherd-does-not-guarantee-a-paycheck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 17:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On being an amateur pastor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago I was forced to wrestle with some pretty hard questions regarding full-time vocational ministry. The toughest was whether or not I was “called.” You see much of my training and almost all of my experience suggested that without a paying gig where people called me “pastor,” I must not be called to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=28&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cairns, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/cairns-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cairn #2: Effective leaders are guides, not vendors of spiritual goods and services. Like Lewis and Clark, I feel like an explorer; I’m seeing and experiencing things I’ve never experienced before. Along the way, there are countless discoveries to be made, many risks to take and numerous friends to be made. Leadership in this wilderness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=26&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cairns, Pt.1</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/cairns-pt1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t remember when I first saw one, but I’ve seen lots. They’re easy to miss if you don’t know what you’re looking for; little piles of rocks which serve as strategically placed markers left along the trail by previous travelers to mark the path when the path itself seems to disappear. They’re called “cairns” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=24&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church happens&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/church-happens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dusted off a book today written by on of my many &#8220;proxy&#8221; mentors. At the end of the preface, he says this, &#8220;When the good news of the Kingdom is preached, the church happens. When we concentrate on building the church, we tend to reproduce our familiar forms.&#8221; The comment stopped me dead in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=22&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking outside the little box</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/my-church-is-too-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My church is too small. My last church was too small. So was the one before that, and the one before that. So was the church I grew up in. The irony though is that most of these churches were, numerically speaking, pretty big. But at this point in my life, they’re all too small. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=20&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a more missional lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/towards-a-more-missional-lifestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomas Perez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked with my friends last night about how we might make this idea of &#8220;being&#8221; the church a present reality instead of a vague dream. Turns out, its a more complicated discussion than we thought. But we came up with six practices (resolutions, if you will) that when practiced weekly move us in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acompanyoffriends.wordpress.com&amp;blog=604969&amp;post=19&amp;subd=acompanyoffriends&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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