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		<title>Around theROCK- November 2, 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our weekly blog &#8220;Around theROCK&#8221;. It&#8217;s just a highlight of what&#8217;s going on and coming up at theROCK. Some good info for our volunteers and partners but also a chance for those outside to get a look inside at the happenings around theROCK. So let&#8217;s get started&#8230; #1 Last Weekend Recap  We finished up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=255&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to our weekly blog &#8220;Around theROCK&#8221;. It&#8217;s just a highlight of what&#8217;s going on and coming up at theROCK. Some good info for our volunteers and partners but also a chance for those outside to get a look inside at the happenings around theROCK. So let&#8217;s get started&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>#1 Last Weekend Recap </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>We finished up our series &#8220;The GHOST&#8221; this past Sunday, with a powerful experience featuring communion. We talked about how the Spirit &#8220;teaches us&#8221; and &#8220;reminds us&#8221; of all things. And so used the opportunity to teach the importance of communion and allowed the Holy Spirit to REMIND us what He did and what we&#8217;ve done.</li>
<li>You can watch the first two weeks of that series <a title="The GHOST" href="http://vimeo.com/30652241">HERE</a> and last week&#8217;s message should be up shortly.</li>
<li>Sunday we celebrated the life of our dear friend and fellow partner of theROCK <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/jkrajeck">Jeremy Krajeck</a>.</li>
<ul>
<li>Jeremy was only 33 years old when he passed away on Thursday October 27. But to say his life has made an impact on many many lives would be an understatement.</li>
<li>I was blown away by how many people showed up at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Fire-Escape-Kingsport/128633733856264">The Fire Escape, Kingsport</a>. I know Jeremy would have been very humbled to see how many people loved him and were affected by his life.</li>
<li>I have to admit it was unlike any &#8220;funeral&#8221; or &#8220;memorial celebration&#8221; that I&#8217;ve ever been apart of, and I would say that&#8217;s a good thing! There were close to 20 people that stood up and came forward to share memories and stories of how Jeremy made a difference in their lives. All of them were amazing, but two stories have stuck with me and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever forget&#8230;</li>
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<li>Both stories came from kids who hang out at The Fire Escape. One was from Jonathan&#8230; Jonathan is autistic and he shared why Jeremy is a REAL MAN. His parents and in particular his dad never was there for Jonathan because of his disabilities. But Jonathan watched as Jeremy was more than a dad to his autistic son Seth. Jonathan said that even though, because of his autism, he can very rarely show his emotions, he said that he literally shed tears for the first time in a long time after listening to Jeremy speak about how much he loved his son and how he met his needs. He said Jeremy showed that type of unconditional love to him as well, and that he had never met anyone like Jeremy. It was a very moving speech.</li>
<li>Then there was Matty. I did not know the full story behind Matty until after the memorial celebration. But he told of how Jeremy was as upfront and honest about his faith with Jesus Christ than anyone he had ever met. And he retold the story of a recent conversation he had with Jeremy and Jeremy just flat out told him how much he enjoyed being around him, and so much so that he really wanted to see him in the kingdom of Heaven one day! Matty said that is probably &#8220;the most loving and best thing anyone has ever said to him.&#8221;&#8212;&#8211; Matty is a self-proclaimed atheist. Wow!</li>
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<li>After all the stories had been told basically Jeremy&#8217;s funeral had been preached (by his life). So it was really easy for me to simply stand up and share the gospel is in the simplest way I know how, and give people an opportunity to respond to this same Jesus that had transformed Jeremy&#8217;s life. At least 4 people responded and surrendered their life to Jesus Christ. Of those 4, one of those included&#8230;&#8230;.. <strong><em>Jeremy&#8217;s wife, Crystal.</em></strong> That&#8217;s so freakin awesome!!!</li>
<li>We love you Jeremy  <a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/jeremy-k.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-258" title="Jeremy K" src="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/jeremy-k.jpg?w=150&#038;h=141" alt="" width="150" height="141" /></a></li>
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<p><strong>#2 Volunteer/Partner Lunch THIS SUNDAY</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><em>Yes I&#8217;m posting this again in this Around theROCK, because of Jeremy&#8217;s memorial celebration, we were unable to have it last week. So here&#8217;s the details again&#8230;.  </em></li>
<li>November is going to be a WILD month at theROCK, so to get us all on the same page and all moving parts working together, we&#8217;re going to have a special lunch right after church THIS Sunday!</li>
<li>This lunch may be primarily for our volunteers and partners at theROCK but it&#8217;s also open for anyone who is interested in getting involved or wants to know a little more about our vision and where we&#8217;re heading over the next few months.</li>
<li>For more details or questions about what to bring, you can contact our Logistics Coordinator Ruth Ford at <a href="mailto:ruthjoy08@yahoo.com">ruthjoy08@yahoo.com</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>#3 New thursdayROCK Bible Study </strong></p>
<ul>
<li><em>We also were unable to jump start the new bible study last week, so here&#8217;s the details again to that&#8230; </em></li>
<li>We just finished up our about 6 month study through the New Testament and now we&#8217;re excited to jump start a brand new discussion starting THIS THURSDAY&#8230;</li>
<li>Last November we finished up our study of the book RADICAL by David Platt. It truly was a life altering and church transforming study as we got outside of our little shells and learned how to live a life that is Radical and how we can change the world from Kingsport, TN.</li>
<li>Now we&#8217;re taking it to a WHOLE NUTHA LEVEL as we go through the next study by David Platt called Radical Together. We will learn how to &#8220;Unleash the People of God for the Purpose of God&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/radical-together-3d1-150x1501.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-250" title="Radical-Together-3D1-150x150" src="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/radical-together-3d1-150x1501.jpg?w=150&#038;h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></li>
<li>Pick up the book at any local bookstore or online and join us this Thursday night at 6:30pm either live at our &#8220;Secret Church&#8221; location or online on our iROCK internet campus. Go to iROCKdoU.com for more details.</li>
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<p><strong>#4 New series starting Sunday&#8230; THE ONE! </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>So&#8230; Guess what? I&#8217;m more EXCITED about this series starting Sunday than any other we&#8217;ve had at theROCK! Yeah so I say that about every series! But it&#8217;s TRUE!!!!</li>
<li>If you want to know more about WHAT theROCKchurch is all about, and WHY we do what we do&#8230; This series is perfect for you!</li>
<li>If you want to know how YOU can play apart in making a difference in your city and in this world&#8230; This series is perfect for you!</li>
<li>If you&#8217;ve been burnt out by &#8220;church as usual&#8221; and &#8220;status quo Christianity&#8221; and you&#8217;ve always wondered, &#8220;is there more?&#8221;&#8230;. This series is perfect for you!</li>
<li>As we gear up for our 2nd annual ROCK the Block this month this series is going to be a perfect resource to go alongside us and show us the WHY and the HOW we are to reach PEOPLE around us.</li>
<li>This Sunday the topic is &#8220;Saved People, Serve People&#8221; gosh GET THERE!!! BRING SOMEONE! and BE CHANGED!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>#5 Some Important Dates and Events to keep in Mind&#8230; </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>As mentioned above November is going to be WILD and CRAZY, but in a good way&#8230; Keep up with where and what theROCK will be doing&#8230;</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Saturday, November 5: </strong>ROCK bonfire, for those interested. It will be at 7pm in Rogersville. For those wanting to car pool down, we will meet at the Church Hill Food City at 6:45pm.</li>
<li><strong>Sunday, November 6: </strong>TIME CHANGE!!! Do not forget to turn the clocks back! That means you get an extra hour to sleep! So it&#8217;s also NO EXCUSE SUNDAY. <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  <a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/modern-frameless-wall-clock.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-260" title="modern-frameless-wall-clock" src="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/modern-frameless-wall-clock.jpg?w=150&#038;h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></li>
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<li style="text-align:left;"><strong>Sunday, November 6: </strong>New series and Volunteer/Partner lunch</li>
<li style="text-align:left;"><strong>Saturday, November 12: </strong>ROCK the Block 2011. For more details on this awesome ministry you can check out last week&#8217;s Around theROCK which details this <a href="http://billyriner.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/around-therock-october-26-2011/">HERE</a> or contact our Logistics Coordinator Ruth Ford at ruthjoy08@yahoo.com</li>
<li style="text-align:left;"><strong>Sunday, November 13: </strong>Operation Christmas Child boxes are due! For more information you can contact our Marketing Coordinator Chelsea Daugherty at cdaugh10@yahoo.com</li>
<li style="text-align:left;"><strong>Saturday, November 19: </strong>Kingsport Christmas Parade. Come and help us pass out candy and info about theROCK. We need as many people as possible to make our presence felt.</li>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#444444;font-family:Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And always remember any time you can&#8217;t make it to church, whether sick or out of town, be sure you check out our iROCK internet campus at iROCKdoU.com </span></p>
<p>NO EXCUSE SUNDAY&#8230; Let&#8217;s GO!</p>
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		<title>Around theROCK- October 26, 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m attempting to get a new blog series started called &#8220;Around theROCK&#8221;. It&#8217;s just a highlight of what&#8217;s going on and coming up at theROCK. Some good info for our volunteers and partners but also a chance for those outside to get a look inside at the happenings around theROCK. So let&#8217;s get started&#8230; #1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=242&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m attempting to get a new blog series started called &#8220;Around theROCK&#8221;. It&#8217;s just a highlight of what&#8217;s going on and coming up at theROCK. Some good info for our volunteers and partners but also a chance for those outside to get a look inside at the happenings around theROCK. So let&#8217;s get started&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>#1 The GHOST </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>We&#8217;re finishing up our 3 week series called &#8220;The GHOST&#8221; this Sunday. You know we&#8217;ve all heard and seen some of the crazy stories of churches who can sometimes OVER emphasize the Holy Spirit, but I think a far more prevalent problem in the church today is those who UNDER emphasize the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit.</li>
<li>You can watch the first two weeks of that series <a title="The GHOST" href="http://vimeo.com/30652241">HERE</a></li>
<li>It never gets old to celebrate the fact that at least 3 people have stepped over the line and given their lives to Christ the last two weeks. Awesome!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>#2 Volunteer/Partner Lunch THIS SUNDAY</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>November is going to be a WILD month at theROCK, so to get us all on the same page and all moving parts working together, we&#8217;re going to have a special lunch right after church THIS Sunday!</li>
<li>This lunch may be primarily for our volunteers and partners at theROCK but it&#8217;s also open for anyone who is interested in getting involved or wants to know a little more about our vision and where we&#8217;re heading over the next few months.</li>
<li>For more details or questions about what to bring, you can contact our Logistics Coordinator Ruth Ford at <a href="mailto:ruthjoy08@yahoo.com">ruthjoy08@yahoo.com</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>#3 Women&#8217;s Bible Study</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Our new girls Bible Study has been a HUGE success. So glad to see the girls of theROCK growing together and doing life together as they strenghthen each other (as well as have a blast, so I&#8217;ve heard)</li>
<li>If you&#8217;re a girl looking for hope, fun, and growth in your walk with God; you&#8217;ve got to give it a shot! (Oh and there&#8217;s food)</li>
<li>The girls meet every other Tuesday at 6:30pm at a different house each time. The next night is Tuesday, November 1 at Jennifer Shelton&#8217;s house.</li>
<li>For more details or directions you can contact Elaine Riner at <a href="mailto:elaineriner@yahoo.com">elaineriner@yahoo.com</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>#4 New thursdayROCK Bible Study </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>We just finished up our about 6 month study through the New Testament and now we&#8217;re excited to jump start a brand new discussion starting THIS THURSDAY&#8230;</li>
<li>Last November we finished up our study of the book RADICAL by David Platt. It truly was a life altering and church transforming study as we got outside of our little shells and learned how to live a life that is Radical and how we can change the world from Kingsport, TN.</li>
<li>Now we&#8217;re taking it to a WHOLE NUTHA LEVEL as we go through the next study by David Platt called Radical Together. We will learn how to &#8220;Unleash the People of God for the Purpose of God&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/radical-together-3d1-150x1501.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-250" title="Radical-Together-3D1-150x150" src="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/radical-together-3d1-150x1501.jpg?w=150&#038;h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></li>
<li>Pick up the book at any local bookstore or online and join us this Thursday night at 6:30pm either live at our &#8220;Secret Church&#8221; location or online on our iROCK internet campus. Go to iROCKdoU.com for more details.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>#5 Be the ONE</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Earlier this month I got the opportunity to go to the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta. It was life transforming and allowed me time to get away for God to speak vision into where we&#8217;re heading the next few months as a church.  You can watch my beginning thoughts on where we&#8217;re going in this video.</li>
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<li>We&#8217;re also beginning a brand new series starting November 6 called &#8220;Be the ONE&#8221;&#8230; To say you have to be there, is an understatement!</li>
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<p><strong>#6 ROCK the Block</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Last year we put together our first annual ROCK the Block in Kingsport. We took a housing development in the city and surveyed the area to find out what true NEEDS the people had and went back to meet as many of those needs as we could.</li>
<li>Last year we were able to meet such needs as: Fixing 6 cars, gave away 100&#8242;s of clothes, free eye exams, one thanksgiving dinner paid in full, computer repair, fixed a dryer, and more&#8230;</li>
<li>This year we&#8217;re doing it a little bit different, but with the same concept. We want to MEET NEEDS in this city! It&#8217;s time for the church to be a little more like Jesus and actually GO to the people and meet the true NEEDS around us. We&#8217;re serious about getting our hands dirty and our feet wet and actually DOING something about the condition of the people in our region. And we&#8217;d love for YOU to help us&#8230;</li>
<li>This year we&#8217;re asking YOU if you know if anybody, whether it be relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers, acquaintances whom you know have some true needs that they can not take care of by themselves. It could be small things like yardwork to raking leaves to computer work or house maintenance. It could be clothes for the winter or house preparations for winter. Or tons of things not listed. Let&#8217;s just meet these people&#8217;s needs, and YOU help us do it.</li>
<li>If you have questions or would like to place a name on the list contact Ruth Ford at <a href="mailto:ruthjoy08@yahoo.com">ruthjoy08@yahoo.com</a></li>
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<p><strong>#7 Come and See</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>If you haven&#8217;t checked out one of our experiences on Sunday morning, you&#8217;ve got to. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1275423695">Trevor Hager </a>is in a league of his own. The preaching is &#8220;ok&#8221; on Sunday&#8217;s but the worship is amazing! Come and see for yourself.</li>
<li>And anytime you can&#8217;t make it to church, whether sick or out of town, be sure you check out our iROCK internet campus. It&#8217;s growing like crazy as we have people from all over tuning in and even have someone from Ohio that wants to become a partner of theROCK now that&#8217;s cool! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/truth.about.following.him">Daniel Fisher </a>is doing outstanding leading that ministry. </li>
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		<title>Weekly Mind Dump 6-28</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If last week I was amazed at what God was doing at theROCK, then consider me this week completely mind blown! Here&#8217;s a glimpse into what we saw happen over the weekend, and for all you ROCKers out there, it&#8217;s time you paused and just THANK GOD for what He&#8217;s doing. No way we&#8217;re taking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=229&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If last week I was amazed at what God was doing at theROCK, then consider me this week completely mind blown! Here&#8217;s a glimpse into what we saw happen over the weekend, and for all you ROCKers out there, it&#8217;s time you paused and just THANK GOD for what He&#8217;s doing. No way we&#8217;re taking credit for this stuff. Let&#8217;s dump the mind&#8230;</p>
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<li>So we had a new venue this week at Robinson Middle School, and I think the overall census was&#8230; GET IT! We&#8217;re supposed to meet there one more week (July 3) and then we&#8217;re back at Johnson Elementary, but man the possibilities inside Robinson are amazing. We shall see what the future holds.</li>
<li>The volunteer teams this week were AWESOME! Man at 8:45am you could just feel the energy building as our teams turned Robinson Middle School into theROCKchurch. If you&#8217;re not on one of these teams&#8230; what are you waiting for? Join up!</li>
<li>Last week in my blog I explained how we had almost tripled in size over the last couple of months, really in a time when most church attendance starts to DROP because of summer. So honestly, I figured the attendance would definitely see a drop this week, considering we were moving locations and it&#8217;s right in the middle of June and all that stuff, but the attendance was GREAT!!  I was amazed.</li>
<li>Adding Trevor Hager to our team has been one of the biggest additions in theROCK&#8217;s history. And this Sunday was perhaps my favorite set list we&#8217;ve ever done! Check these songs out on YouTube or something. Wish we could get this on a CD. It was that good! But most importantly the Spirit was moving like crazy!</li>
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<li>You Are My Joy&#8211; David Crowder</li>
<li>Like a Lion&#8211; David Crowder</li>
<li>Glory&#8211; Jeff Deyo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTUy03kBULA)</li>
<li>With Everything&#8211; Hillsong United</li>
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<div style="text-align:left;">We continued our &#8220;Manly Men&#8221; series with some COMPETITION! This week it was a contest to see which guy could Hammer in 3 nails the quickest&#8230; The winner&#8230; Chris Krajeck!</p>
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<li style="text-align:left;"> So I tried to show a clip from Rocky 2 to open up my sermon on Sunday, but it made the computer crash, so in honor of that I have a special treat. And this also confirms what I said in Week 1 how my son Jackson is a little bit of a Rocky Balboa freak. Well check this out and you make the call&#8230;</li>
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<li>So the message was called &#8220;The Wolfpack&#8221; and we challenged our guys to get involved in community. Get involved in each other&#8217;s lives and be sure you&#8217;re following the Alpha male in the wolfpack and that of course is Jesus.</li>
<li>Here&#8217;s the message for those of you who missed it&#8230; <a href="http://vimeo.com/25645403">The Wolfpack</a></li>
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<li>And you know the message really wasn&#8217;t even intended to be ultra evangelical in like a hardcore salvation message, but God just took that sucker a completely different direction, and we began to add to the number I gave last week&#8230; I said last week we&#8217;ve had at LEAST <strong>17 </strong>people who have given their lives to Jesus Christ the last 2 months. <strong>SEVENTEEN</strong>. Well when I gave the challenge at the end of the message on Sunday&#8230; And I asked for those who were ready to REPENT and SURRENDER their lives to the cause of Jesus Christ. And there I saw ONE hand go up, then TWO, then THREE!  I saw <strong>THREE! </strong>And that&#8217;s Awesome! That means over <strong>20 </strong>people have given their lives to Jesus Christ in the last two months at theROCK! But it wasn&#8217;t over&#8230;</li>
<li>We got to baptize right after the experience on Sunday and I was blown away! First of all we baptized <strong>6 </strong>followers of Christ! And that never gets old! And we still have plenty more to go. But the bank at Warriors Path was filled with people who traveled from Robinson Middle School to see people get dunked for Jesus that is what it&#8217;s all about! Here&#8217;s a video to recap the experience via Jason Jackson&#8230;</li>
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<li>After the baptism I was made aware that because of the lighting at Robinson, I missed one hand that went up during our challenge&#8230; Meaning not just <strong>3 </strong>people gave their lives to Christ, but now there&#8217;s <strong>4! </strong>Wow! <strong>21 </strong>people in two months!</li>
<li>It couldn&#8217;t get much better than that could it?&#8230; Maybe it can. Already in a praise Jesus mood, for what I had seen Him do, I woke up on Monday morning excited about what He&#8217;d done, and looking forward to see what He had in store for the next weekend. But I found out He wasn&#8217;t through with last weekend. I received a Facebook message on Monday morning and here&#8217;s what it was about&#8230;</li>
<li>One of the awesome girls that we had the privilege to baptize got her husband to finally come out to listen to the &#8220;Manly Men&#8221; series and watch her be baptized. He hadn&#8217;t been to church in YEARS&#8230; and later after the experience he let her know, he too GAVE HIS LIFE TO JESUS CHRIST!&#8230; 1,2,3,4&#8230; <strong>5! FIVE </strong>people became NEW CREATURES on Sunday June 26 at theROCKchurch.  That puts our total at <strong>22!!!</strong></li>
<li>Some people say &#8220;Well you shouldn&#8217;t count numbers&#8230;&#8221; WHAT??? That&#8217;s 22 people that were on a Highway to Hell, but TODAY they&#8217;re living for the cause of Jesus Christ and beginning on a journey to shake the world with the gospel of Jesus! I&#8217;m COUNTING THAT NUMBER ALL DAY!!! Heck yeah, I count numbers when it comes to lives being changed by the power of Christ!</li>
<li>Amazing day&#8230; We had ROCKin music, clips from Rocky and Chuck Norris&#8230;</li>
<li>And yes, even quotes from The Hangover to segway into the message (how many churches you going to hear that at?!)&#8230; Yes, maybe not always wise, but you know what? If just ONE of those people sitting out in that audience, opened their ears just for a second while I read a dumb Hangover quote, and that woke them up long enough to listen to what else I had to say&#8230; then by golly it was worth it! And I would do it again and again and again</li>
<li>Guys I admit I don&#8217;t know what all is going on? But we&#8217;re seeing something beginning to happen that we could only dream about in March of 2009 when theROCKchurch was formed. In His timing, God is beginning to show us what He&#8217;s capable of in this city. It&#8217;s exciting!</li>
<li>If you made it through this whole LONG blog and you haven&#8217;t checked out what&#8217;s going on at theROCK for yourself. Man, you&#8217;ve got to check this out! If you&#8217;re far from God right now, dude this is the place for you. We exist for you actually.</li>
<li>Again for those of you who are partners and volunteers at theROCKchurch, THANK YOU. And you&#8217;re dedication, and patience, and energy, and hard work, has not gone unnoticed. Every one of those <strong>TWENTY-TWO </strong>souls that have been re-born by the Spirit of God, every one of those you had a hand in seeing God change that life. For every diaper changed, every worship guide handed out, every smile given, every stage prop put up, every lesson taught in KidsROCK, ALL OF IT played a role in some one who walked into &#8220;church&#8221; far from God, but left FOREVER CHANGED by the power of Jesus Christ.</li>
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<div style="text-align:left;">The best is yet to come&#8230;</div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my blog has basically been non-existent for 5 months. I admit it&#8217;s been hectic and crazy, but tonight just seemed like one of those nights I needed to pause&#8230; take a deep breath&#8230; and reflect on exactly what God has been doing at theROCKchurch over the last 2 months. And it absolutely has blown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=223&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So my blog has basically been non-existent for 5 months. I admit it&#8217;s been hectic and crazy, but tonight just seemed like one of those nights I needed to pause&#8230; take a deep breath&#8230; and reflect on exactly what God has been doing at theROCKchurch over the last 2 months. And it absolutely has blown my mind. You ready for this???</p>
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<li>Over the last two months we have seen <strong>17 people</strong> give their lives to Jesus Christ! <strong>SEVENTEEN! </strong></li>
<li>We are getting ready to baptize THIS SUNDAY as many as <strong>11 people. ELEVEN</strong> people saying I AM NOT ASHAMED TO STAND UP FOR CHRIST! That&#8217;s awesome!</li>
<li>Since May we have seen attendance almost triple! Did you catch that? In the summer months, when church attendance always DROPS&#8230; We have GROWN! Unreal.</li>
<li>Our thursdayROCK bible study, has gone from almost primarily at one point nothing but me sitting at the computer with Daniel staring me in the face and about 5 people online watching. To what we saw TONIGHT&#8230; Where we had <strong>10 people LIVE IN PERSON&#8230; </strong>And many others online!  We had 13 viewers ONLINE last week, for a BIBLE STUDY&#8230;  That blows my mind!</li>
<li>We have seen since May amazing stories and amazing videos like these</li>
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<li>Trevor Hager has taken our creative arts to a WHOLE NUTHA LEVEL. And it&#8217;s only the beginning</li>
<li>Daniel Fisher is growing the iROCK internet campus into an amazing thing.</li>
<li>PJ Johnson has been an amazing soundboard and partner in casting vision and gearing up for the future of theROCK and I can&#8217;t say thank you enough.</li>
<li>We&#8217;ve got people that are now on board who are SOLD OUT to the vision, of Paying Whatever Cost to Point People to the Cross&#8230; And their enthusiasm is CONTAGIOUS!</li>
<li>And lastly I am STINKIN PUMPED because God&#8217;s finally given me clear direction that it&#8217;s time to go back to Nicaragua in January 2012! Sign-ups will be ready this Sunday! This is going to be an AMAZING TEAM!</li>
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<p>All I can say is, if you have not had the chance to check out what&#8217;s going on at theROCK please I&#8217;m telling you, you have GOT to give it a shot! This <a href="http://www.irockdou.com/sundaysrock/current-teaching-series/">Manly Men Series</a> is just EXPLODING w/ testosterone, fun, competition, and most importantly MEN LEARNING TO BECOME MEN, and changing families! You can&#8217;t miss the last two weeks. You can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>GET ON BOARD NOW! Something is brewing, and I can&#8217;t wait to see what&#8217;s NEXT.</p>
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<li>One more note if you&#8217;re reading this before June 26 or July 3&#8230; theROCKchurch will be meeting those two Sundays at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=ross+n.+robinson+middle+school&amp;cp=7&amp;safe=off&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;biw=1024&amp;bih=617&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl">ROSS N. ROBINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL</a> in Kingsport. (Link provided)  Hope to see you there! Sunday at 10:30am!</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think of &#8220;church&#8221; in America, we think of going to meet at a building, singing, praying and hearing a message from a Pastor or teacher. But in many places around the world, &#8220;church&#8221; meets in a home, an apartment, even in secret. These small groups of Christ-followers often meet for many hours in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=219&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>When we think of &#8220;church&#8221; in America, we think of going to meet at a building, singing, praying and hearing a message from a Pastor or teacher. But in many places around the world, &#8220;church&#8221; meets in a home, an apartment, even in secret. These small groups of Christ-followers often meet for many hours in study, prayer and fellowship, as it is dangerous to travel to &#8220;church&#8221; and they want to make the most of their time together.</strong></p>
<p><strong>thursdaysROCK Secret Church is our &#8220;house church&#8221; where we meet every Thursday at 6:30pm for an intense time of Bible study and to pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters across the globe. We welcome all to attend, but warn you this is not for the uncommitted or faint of heart.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The purpose is not for you to simply &#8220;get fat&#8221; on your Bible knowledge. But the objective is for you to pass along the information that you learn to others, so that you can make disciples of Christ. </strong>(adapted from Brook Hills Church Secret Church)</p>
<p>The notes have been taken from a similar study by David Platt. So the notes you will be downloading will be from their study.  Skip the first 4 pages and we begin on page 5.  We will be adding things as we go, but this is a good starting point.</p>
<p>You have two options for notes.  If you&#8217;re the type that likes to take notes and it helps you to fill in the blanks to keep you engaged in the content then download the Blank Notes.  Or if you prefer to have the blanks filled in for you so that you can just listen and follow along that way, there is an option for Filled In Notes. Pick up whichever fits you best, below&#8230;</p>
<p>Notes already Filled In&#8212;&#8211;&gt; <a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/sc-nt_sgf.pdf">SC NT_SGF</a></p>
<p>Notes with Blanks&#8212;&#8212;&gt; <a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/sc-nt_sgb.pdf">SC NT_SGB</a></p>
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		<title>New Secret Church Notes&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think of &#8220;church&#8221; in America, we think of going to meet at a building, singing, praying and hearing a message from a Pastor or teacher. But in many places around the world, &#8220;church&#8221; meets in a home, an apartment, even in secret. These small groups of Christ-followers often meet for many hours in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=215&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>When we think of &#8220;church&#8221; in America, we think of going to meet at a building, singing, praying and hearing a message from a Pastor or teacher. But in many places around the world, &#8220;church&#8221; meets in a home, an apartment, even in secret. These small groups of Christ-followers often meet for many hours in study, prayer and fellowship, as it is dangerous to travel to &#8220;church&#8221; and they want to make the most of their time together.</strong></p>
<p><strong>thursdaysROCK Secret Church is our &#8220;house church&#8221; where we meet every Thursday at 6:30pm for an intense time of Bible study and to pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters across the globe. We welcome all to attend, but warn you this is not for the uncommitted or faint of heart.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The purpose is not for you to simply &#8220;get fat&#8221; on your Bible knowledge. But the objective is for you to pass along the information that you learn to others, so that you can make disciples of Christ. </strong>(adapted from Brook Hills Church Secret Church)</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The notes have been taken from a similar study by David Platt. So the notes you will be downloading will be from their study.  Skip the first 4 pages and we begin on page 5.  We will be adding things as we go, but this is a good starting point.</p>
<p>Pick Up New Updated Notes here&#8230; <a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/secretchurch1_sgf.pdf">SecretChurch1_SGF</a></p>
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		<title>Ok&#8230; I&#8217;m Listening&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah get off my back&#8230; my posts have been few and far between. The Sunday Night Mind Dump has gone to the&#8230; well dump. I&#8217;m telling ya I will start it back, but as we all know T-I-M-E is such a commodity in 2010. As 2011 approaches my mind is already beginning to explore the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=210&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah get off my back&#8230; my posts have been few and far between. The Sunday Night Mind Dump has gone to the&#8230; well dump. I&#8217;m telling ya I will start it back, but as we all know T-I-M-E is such a commodity in 2010.</p>
<p>As 2011 approaches my mind is already beginning to explore the new challenges, the new aspirations, the new goals, and the renewed vision for the new year. And one of the things I hope to reignite is my presence through the social networks including the regular use of this blog. The challenges of planting a relevant church in &#8220;old school&#8221; tradition rich east Tennessee has perhaps been even more challenging than I gave the enemy credit for. For the church planters and young leaders out there that were checking out this blog in the past, check back soon for my interesting take on those challenges and more in the coming weeks&#8230; But that&#8217;s for another time, another post&#8230;</p>
<p>As for tonight&#8230; I had to share this anecdote/story. I love when God gives me messages to preach and then follows up that week with the real life application. It&#8217;s been happening quite a bit lately actually.</p>
<p>We began a series on Sunday called <em><a href="http://www.irockdou.com/sundaysrock/current-teaching-series/">Do You Hear? </a></em> Focusing all on HEARING from God. You know usually when you hear preachers preach about prayer, it&#8217;s always about the &#8220;what to say&#8221; aspect and rarely do we learn the &#8220;what did He say&#8221; part. We just finished up in our <em>Sun Stand Still </em>series learning how to pray big prayers and asking God for big things. But you know, it&#8217;s great to pray those things, and God wants you to DREAM BIG, and ASK AUDACIOUSLY, but if we fail to LISTEN and hear from God, we&#8217;ve blown the whole deal.</p>
<p>So last week it was all about laying the foundation to how we HEAR from God. Because I still contend that the greatest life skill, the greatest ability for any pastor is the skill and the ability to HEAR God&#8217;s voice and the COURAGE to DO what He says. And for YOU, although you may be a housewife that&#8217;s changing dirty diapers and trying to manage the dishes, laundry, and supper, or you may be working at Wal-Mart listening to grumpy holiday Scrooge&#8217;s all day complain about the weather and the lysol going up 2 cents or you&#8217;re a student that feels like you&#8217;re never going to graduate and &#8220;real life&#8221; is so far away&#8230; Regardless what you do or how insignificant you think your life is at the moment, the greatest skill you can ever develop is the ability to HEAR God&#8217;s Voice and the COURAGE to do what He says.</p>
<p>I told you though, if you really want to hear God speak, you&#8217;ve got to pay attention! Because the truth is He is speaking every single day! But you&#8217;ve got to tune in. You&#8217;ve got to have the antenna up, you&#8217;ve got to clean your ears out, sit up straight, and have your eyes alert. He&#8217;s speaking&#8230; are you listening?</p>
<p>Well if I wasn&#8217;t listening before&#8230; believe me&#8230; God&#8217;s got my attention tonight. As I said on Sunday your burning bush may come from the most normal, ordinary objects. It was a freakin bush, an ordinary, natural bush, that had no meaning whatsoever, UNTIL God set it on fire. And soon the ordinary became extraordinary. You better pay attention to the regular, natural, ordinary things in your life, because they can become supernatural in a few moments with God&#8217;s presence. Teenagers listen to your parents, believe it or not God can speak through them. Yes, even a spouse can have some wisdom from God every now and then. And you know what? Would you believe me if I told you&#8230; God can speak LOUD and CLEAR through a 2 year old?</p>
<p>One of the moments I look forward to all day is the moment after I read Jackson his bed time story, and then I pray for Him (tonight before I prayed, I told Jax how awesome he was and how much potential he really had. And then I prayed to God asking Him to ignite the talents that He has given him, and I prayed that Jackson Riner would be the best in the world at that talent. That he would be a leader for his generation to make a difference in the world, using the talent [whatever it may be] as the springboard to changing the world) By the way it&#8217;s never too early and never too late to pray those prayers for your kids. Encourage them and empower them to be the best they can be, with the skills and talents God has given them.  Anyway&#8230; so after we pray, and turn out the lights, we always just have a moment where we just talk. These are some of my greatest times, just sitting there having a conversation with a 2 year old. It is absolutely hilarious at times, and actually insightful at times. He&#8217;ll go on talking about football and Tyler Bray, and Du-fense (defense). He&#8217;ll talk about what he did at Mimi&#8217;s and what he ate for dinner. I love it!</p>
<p>But tonight it was daddy&#8217;s turn to vent to son. Without going into detail, today was very stressful on multiple levels. And there are some MAJOR decisions and some IMMEDIATE needs that MUST be taken care of in the coming weeks to launch theROCKchurch into financial freedom and to take us to the next level. But today has just been a crossroads time and I&#8217;ve really been trying to put into practice my message on HEARING God&#8217;s voice. I&#8217;ve asked God to speak to me all day, and I just wasn&#8217;t hearing it&#8230; UNTIL&#8230;</p>
<p>I said &#8220;Jackson, let me just tell you&#8230; I&#8217;ve got some things that are just weighing heavy on me&#8221; &#8220;Heavy?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, son, weighing heavy on me.&#8221; He sat in silence as I continued &#8220;I just don&#8217;t know what to do? I need some advice, and I need to hear from God. Can you give me some advice?&#8221;&#8230; The next words and I promise you I&#8217;m not exaggerating this or adding. But God began to speak through a burning bush/ahem a 2 year old&#8230; &#8220;Daddy, preach the Bible&#8230; pppreach the Truth.&#8221; &#8220;Umm, that&#8217;s pretty good son, what else?&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Lift the people up. Daddy help people, lift people up. Preach the Bible.&#8221;&#8230; I sat in silence&#8230; Preach the Bible? Lift people up? Help people? &#8220;Daddy, the people&#8230; the truth&#8230; people need truth&#8221; hmm, God? Umm, is that you? &#8220;Daddy&#8230; football&#8221; and we&#8217;re done. haha&#8230;</p>
<p>As I kissed him goodnight and walked out of the room&#8230; it hit me. God Still Speaks. God Is Able to Ignite the Ordinary. And God&#8217;s Voice Reminds You of His Promises. (3 of the 4 points from Sunday&#8217;s message) Are you listening? I&#8217;m listening&#8230; Don&#8217;t think this stuff don&#8217;t apply to you. It&#8217;s time that you started believing God for the impossible in your life. I&#8217;ve heard God&#8217;s voice, now I&#8217;ve got to have the COURAGE to do what He says.</p>
<p>What about you? Do you Hear Him?&#8230; He&#8217;s speaking&#8230; Shhhhh&#8230;. Listen&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>ROCKchurch Secret Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick up notes here &#8212;&#8212;&#62;  SecretChurch1_SGB<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=206&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pick up notes here &#8212;&#8212;&gt;  <a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/secretchurch1_sgb.pdf">SecretChurch1_SGB</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Radical Experiment is a one-year experiment that theROCKchurch is undertaking from November 2010 to November 2011. The goal for The Radical Experiment is for individuals, our families, and our church to spend our lives together for the sake of the church, the lost, and the poor around the world to the glory of God. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=203&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Radical Experiment is a one-year experiment that <a href="http://www.irockdou.com">theROCKchurch</a> is undertaking from November 2010 to November 2011. The goal for The Radical Experiment is for individuals, our families, and our church to spend our lives together for the sake of the church, the lost, and the poor around the world to the glory of God.</p>
<p><a href="http://billyriner.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/radicalexperiment-rockchurch.pdf">RADICALexperiment ROCKchurch</a> &lt;&#8212;- Click here for the Guide</p>
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		<title>Why RADICAL?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we embark on a new journey for our thursdaysROCK bible study. And I just wanted to quickly share my heart on why I believe this is a CRITICAL study not only for my church, theROCKchurch, but for all professing followers of Jesus Christ&#8230; You know over the course of the last 2 years a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billyriner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7805018&amp;post=201&amp;subd=billyriner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight we embark on a new journey for our thursdaysROCK bible study. And I just wanted to quickly share my heart on why I believe this is a CRITICAL study not only for my church, theROCKchurch, but for all professing followers of Jesus Christ&#8230;</p>
<p>You know over the course of the last 2 years a question has been raging in my soul that I simply can not shake&#8230; HAVE WE MISSED IT? I mean as a society, as a people, as a culture, as a church&#8230; have we missed it? Are we off? Do we really understand the cost of being a follower of Jesus Christ?</p>
<p>This question haunted me to the point that I left a church that I cared about to follow God&#8217;s prompting on my heart to begin and ignite a new church/movement of God in Kingsport.  In some ways, admittedly, the transition to a &#8220;new church&#8221; and a &#8220;new approach&#8221; in Kingsport has been difficult.  And in large part I still believe the reason all comes back to the same question that has been haunting me&#8230; HAVE WE MISSED IT? Do we&#8230; GET &#8220;IT&#8221;?</p>
<p>What frightens me is that we live in a culture in upper East Tennessee that is full of &#8220;Niiice&#8221; people, who on the surface maybe have good intentions and on the surface has good morals and on the surface &#8220;love Jesus&#8221; but what lies under the surface? Are we nothing more but surface people with depth as shallow as a dried out swimming pool? BREAKING NEWS: Good intentions lead to the same place as bad intentions, Traditions get us no closer to God than secular living, and being nice guarantees nothing more than a brief smile. The bottom line is if we&#8217;re basing our &#8220;Christianity&#8221; on good intentions, church traditions, and a fake smile the end result is terrifying.</p>
<p>You see the church world we see today in America, is so far away from what we read from Jesus that it&#8217;s sickening.  And again we throw out the good intentions but we&#8217;ve castrated (no other way to say it) the gospel for what it is. We&#8217;ve undercut and diluted the sharpness at which Jesus spoke. When Jesus said &#8220;Any of you who does not give up everything he cannot be my disciple.&#8221; (Luke 14:33) Did He really mean that? &#8220;No we say&#8230;&#8221; and then we&#8217;ll splat out some ridiculous reason as to why that&#8217;s not truly applicable to us today. Or what about when He told the rich young ruler to &#8220;go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.&#8221; Did He mean it?&#8230; But, but, but that was because he was too rich and&#8230;  What are we???&#8230;</p>
<p>Two books have captured my heart and two men have put into words what I have felt in my heart for 2 years. The first book was &#8220;Crazy Love&#8221; by Francis Chan and we did a series at theROCK based off of this book. You can check it out <a href="http://www.irockdou.com/sundaysrock/current-sermon-series/">here</a> by clicking on the link and scrolling down till you see the series. And the second book is this book &#8220;Radical&#8221; by David Platt. I have chosen to use this book as a guide as we dig into the Scriptures through what God has been teaching me. David takes a bold and brash approach at the true meaning of the gospel and what it means for us.</p>
<p>So my next question is this&#8230; Will you go with us? I don&#8217;t care what church you&#8217;re affiliated with. I don&#8217;t care from what background you come from. I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a skeptic or a saint. I dare you to look deeper into your self than you ever have before. I dare you to go below the surface of your spiritual walk. I dare you to take a RADICAL look at Jesus and I promise you&#8230; you will never&#8230; be&#8230; the same.</p>
<p>There are 3 ways you can connect through our thursdaysROCK bible study.</p>
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<li>Easiest and best way is to simply show up live at our thursdaysROCK venue. <a href="http://www.irockdou.com/thursdaysrock/current-bible-study/">You can find directions here</a>.</li>
<li>If you can not make it in person, we do give you the option of checking it out LIVE at our <a href="http://www.irockdou.com/icampus/irock-internet-campus/">internet campus</a>. Just simply click on the link at 6:30pm and you can tune in and even chat with our internet campus director Daniel Fisher.</li>
<li>We will be posting videos from the studies two or three days after. You can check out the new videos either through my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/billyriner">Facebook</a> page or the church&#8217;s <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1583097/videos">vimeo page</a>.</li>
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<p>Whatever you do&#8230; if you care at all about deepening your walk with God. Don&#8217;t miss a single week!</p>
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