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- My book Church in the Making is out TOMORROW
- The early bird deadline for Whiteboard is TODAY
- Cannot wait for you to hear the completed stories of my Dream Year class come December 2010. It's only month three, and I'm blown away.
- When you're starting out, they dismiss you...
- When you're growing, they criticize you...
- When you're successful, they resent you...
- Being dismissed is the easiest of the three, so savor this season, my fellow dreamers.
- John Saddington missed a career in parkour
- If you're anywhere near Portland, my friend Jordan Chesbrough is an amazing photographer for hire. If you live anywhere else, his design work is stunning.
- My friend Joan Ball's new book wins for best cover art. Joan is a writer for Beliefnet and a former atheist.
- The Boom De Ah Dah phenomenon
- There's a regular at Starbucks who looks like a UFC fighter and speaks with a Russian accent. Yesterday, I spotted a gun tucked into the back of his pants.
- Incidentally, there's a Russian prostitution ring in Va Beach. I'm sure Money Magazine didn't factor that in when they ranked this the #1 place to raise a family.
- The STORY website launches in a few days.
- That Gordon Ramsay show about restaurant make-overs is awesome. I'd love to do that with church plants. "Hell's Church Plant" ... er ... =)
- Two years ago, I described the premise of Church in the Making to a leader in the Exponential Network and he looked at me and said, "Who cares?" Ouch. No hard feelings, but I do hope you'll help me show him just who.
- There's going to be a whole generation of kids who despise their fathers' perceived workaholism... but it'll turn out they were just twittering.
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Ben, I read the first segment on amazon. I love it. I am on a leadership team for ARC called the A-Team. I do some of the assessments of the new planters as well. I can see how this book will probably become one of our must reads. I can't wait for it to come out tomorrow. BTW, is it going to be available on Kindle?
Posted by: Eric Partin | March 31, 2010 at 08:43 AM
Awesome Eric. Great to hear from you. I'd love to somehow make spiritual receptivity, social momentum, and context part of cp assessments. I haven't heard from B&H on the Kindle edition... will let you know if I do.
Posted by: Ben Arment | March 31, 2010 at 10:08 AM
Ben,
Same deal at Eric here. Love the concept, and the series of posts you've been doing based on Church in the Making. I lead a church planting network in Illinois and we're already recommending your book as reading to potential planters...in fact just recommended it yesterday over lunch with a planter. I'm also looking for a Kindle edition (and requested it on Amazon).
Posted by: Dale Schaeffer | March 31, 2010 at 10:25 AM
thanks Dale... I think if wonderful people like you keep asking for it, it'll happen.
Posted by: Ben Arment | March 31, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Ben,
Congrats on the book. Looking forward to reading it. Church planting books can be a bit stale. Your approach seems fresh.
BTW- Seth Godin just called and I think he is jealous at how well you worded the part where you talked about "when you're starting out, when you're growing, and when you're successful" :)
Good stuff there man.
Posted by: Chris | March 31, 2010 at 11:34 AM
hey, if you ever do that church planting make-over show, sign me up. the things i could tell you... :)
Posted by: kendra | March 31, 2010 at 01:00 PM
I'm anxiously awaiting for "Church in the Making". Pre-ordered mine from Amazon.com and hoping it ships soon.
Posted by: Chris Reardon | March 31, 2010 at 02:40 PM
And if your going to do a Kindle Edition...Put one on the iPad please. I'm anxiously awaiting to get mine as well. Thanks!
Posted by: Chris Reardon | March 31, 2010 at 02:45 PM
thanks Chris! An iPad book gets my vote too
Posted by: Ben Arment | March 31, 2010 at 03:02 PM
Think I might prefer resentment to being dismissed.
Posted by: robb overholt | March 31, 2010 at 08:41 PM
Literally? This person said, "Who cares?"
You know, when you get dissed like that, it makes me feel just a bit better for getting attacks for pushing the envelope. Being a pioneer can be really lonely.
Posted by: Allan W. | April 01, 2010 at 03:14 PM