MONDAY MINUTES
April 1, 2006
Editors Note: This special edition of Monday Minutes is being published two days earlier than usual.
SOME KEEP PLANTING With only 19 baptisms in its first 20 days, the newly planted Chicago International Christian Church made room this week for the planting of the Chicago Intercontinental Christian Church. The team, to be sent from Oregon, adopted the now familiar plant-first-then-discuss-co-existence-later strategy:
We along with disciples from Georgia, Kiev, Phoenix and our sister church in Eugene will join a group of
even more totally "ultra-mega-sold-out" disciples to plant the Chicago Intercontinental Christian Church.
This is not a replanting of the Chicago International Christian Church. We have contacted the leadership of
the Chicago International Christian Church to try to set up a meeting to discuss how we can mutually
co-exist.
2006 MID-CENTRAL CONFERENCE SLATED The 2006 International Jubilee Seminar Conference has been slated for November 30-December 1, 2006. Program organizers, citing the tendency of past programs to over-promise, pledged a less ambitious program:
We realized that for some disciples, this would be their twenty-fifth "life-changing" event in just the past
several years, and that some were wearying of the constant changing of a life that wasn't really all that
bad after years of discipleship, classes, sermons and seminars.
Program organizers released what they described as a "more realistic" slate of classes:
November 30
Shining Like Nightlights: Saving Your Influence for Just the Right Occasion
Partial Transformation: Why Be Radical?
How to Save Big by Tithing on Your Net, Not Gross, Income
Building a Pretty Good Campus Ministry
Teens: Take Time to Smolder, Before Getting Fired-Up
December 1
Single Households: Creative Ideas for Getting Everyone to Pay Their Share of Rent
Building the Appearance of Team Unity
Just Chillin': The Non-Hot Alternative to Lukewarmness
Family Time: You Could Do Worse Than TV
Ideas for Special Contribution: How Coupons Add Up
Registration is $35 per person, or $75 per couple.
UNITY PLAN REACTIONS The Peoria Church of Christ says "not yet" to the Plan for United Cooperation, citing difficulties opening the PDF file when the church's office computer became infected with a virus. The church's part-time administrator denied the virus had anything to do with the consensus group's decision to remove Solitaire, "the only fun software on the whole cheap computer someone donated last year."
Elsewhere, the Greater B.C. Church of Christ said although it found nothing objectionable in the plan itself, there were several things not in the plan it might potentially disagree with, and would therefore not be able to say "yes" or "no" at this time, but might possibly be able to say "maybe" at some time in the future, adding "we'll just see about that, eh?"
NAME CHANGE The former Montgomery International Church of Christ, in an effort to reflect its newfound autonomy, changes its name to the Montgomery Local Vicinity Church of Christ.
MEA CULPA Anti-ICOC website Reveal posts an apology, blaming years of name-calling and relentless criticism on a simple misunderstanding. Former editor Lirpa Sloof explained:
My mother, a first-generation immigrant from Lugash, had a funny way of getting those little sayings mixed up.
I never knew until recently that she'd misheard "If you can't find anything nice to say don't say anything at all."
All these years I thought it was "If you can't find anything nice to say, name call." My bad.
FEE WAIVED DisciplesToday announced today that in addition to waiving subscription fees for third world-subscribers, it would not charge for access to pages with more than six different font sizes and colors on the same page.
