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The Big Red Tractor from Francis Chan

February 12, 2010


Thanks to @JasonCurlee for sharing this with me. Check-out his blog: JasonCurlee.com

The following video from Francis Chan is perhaps controversial or challenging. What are your thoughts?

 

 

Posted by Ashley Williams at 09:08 AM • Permalink

8 Comments »

  1. Very cool story…love it

    In my own life, I have the desire to do good but I “HOW” it to death.  I want to impact my community but How can I? 

    I think churches focus on How (organizations and structures and programs) so much that they forget WHAT they are all about. 

    I wrote about “What not How” at:  http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/resistance/

    Our dreams are killed by HOWing them to death.

    I’d also suggest that we choke our dreams into attainablility because we don’t expand the team.  “Don’t narrow the dream…EXPAND the team.”
    http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/dont-narrow-the-dream-expand-the-team/

    Regards,

    Leadership Freak
    Dan Rockwell

    Comment by Dan (Leadership Freak) - Feb 12, 2010 @ 09:50 AM

  2. This is great. Can it be used by churches?

    Comment by Dan Williams - Feb 12, 2010 @ 09:54 AM

  3. I’m the first to admit that I have a distorted view of the Holy Spirit, maybe not on an intellectual level but at least in my experience. I’m not sure how this happened but over the years I’ve developed a concept that the Holy Spirit is this little God that plays second fiddle to the other two bigger Gods. In my head I know that this is not true, but still this distorted view is still in me somewhere.

    I appreciate this post and I trust that God is using it to grow me.

    Jason.

    Comment by Jason Glaze - Feb 12, 2010 @ 10:09 AM

  4. I love it! Spreading the wealth…but you gotta read the Word and nurture the Body (church) - Awesome! Nice work Uncle Francis =)

    Comment by Sharon Alava - Feb 12, 2010 @ 11:28 AM

  5. one of my team members thought when we first watched it that it is a great picture of doing church the same old way…old tractor and pushing…vs…embracing change…

    thanks for the blog link…you guys and gals are awesome for what you do

    Comment by Jason Curlee - Feb 12, 2010 @ 11:27 PM

  6. Love this! Such a creative way to communicate and remind us of the power and role of the Holy Spirit. Great book too, btw.

    Comment by Anita Kim - Feb 15, 2010 @ 07:20 PM

  7. and now it is not available anywhere….. why?

    Comment by Derek Iannelli-Smith - Feb 20, 2010 @ 09:02 AM

  8. Is there any place to view this video?  I have looked everywhere and can’t find it now…Love this video and want to share it with my family.

    Comment by Tommy Nobis - Feb 23, 2010 @ 01:12 AM

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