The names that display over the maps are done by Google. It looks like Google has currently disabled all names over Israel. I’m sure this has to do with a legal or safety issue. Hopefully they will come back soon. The only name over the country is “Israel” and that name IS in Hebrew. All the Arabic names around the country are coming from Jordan, Syria or Egypt…all of those are Arabic speaking countries. Google places the names of locations in their native tongue. An additional reason the names may have been removed is because of a disagreement over what languages to display for certain cities.

I hope that helps.

My church went through with their changes and the only glitch was when they tried to cover up the stained glass windows and then everyone was upset.

But here’s what is so so sad. They are constantly trying to reach people outside our church and they are dropping the high school students like a bad disease. They dont know what to do with them. They would put money toward remodeling the church and not toward sending the high schoolers to student leadership programs.

I would hope that churchs would meet the needs of the people who support the church first before spending money they dont have on things they dont need.

The video files would be hard to get to you anytime soon. We’re moving and they’re packed away. Could you just run it from the web page?

Tim

I agree that God is working inside and outside the chruch walls.
I also think there’s a world of difference between “the church as an institution” vs “the church as a people.” In the former way of viewing church, the real danger would be to see the institution as God’s primary way, or worse, the only way that God makes Himself known.

Chruch as a people, or perhaps better stated, church as a Jesus/people movement puts the focus on Jesus and people rather than the institution. I realize that it’s possible to be in the institution without being institutionalized…probably a whole other discussion…

In the end though, I have to agree with you, it’s ultimately about loving those inside the walls and those outside them. But how we view church or how we think God views church can make a huge difference in our approach to making disciples.