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\"AgapeGoing to the office on Saturday is not a habit of mine, but today I was there to sit in with the first ‘Agap\u00e8 Challenge’ – the one-day introduction to the organisation and philosophy of Agap\u00e8. Colleagues Peter, Henk and Freek talked about things like the Great Commission, Win-Build-Send, discipleship and transferable concepts, mostly from a biblical context. I was glad to discover again that our values and philosophies are really rooted in the bible. Especially Henk’s talk about discipleship was refreshing, as it showed that there is a continuing process of learning and (leadership) development in the Bible. Traditionally we tend to be very ‘dichotomic’ about evangelism and the gospel: either you’re in or out, and once you’re in, the work is done. But fact is that Jesus took three years to share his live with his pupils; Paul was ‘successful’ in ministry only after he was discipled by Barbanas and had hands-on training in Antioch; later he spent three years in Ephesus to train and equip the believers there. There is much more to say, but you’ll get the picture. And I think this is what we call the Agap\u00e8 Challenge: equipping people to involve people to equip people to involve people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going to the office on Saturday is not a habit of mine, but today I was there to sit in with the first ‘Agap\u00e8 Challenge’ …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agape","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"bravada-featured":false,"bravada-featured-lp":false,"bravada-featured-half":false,"bravada-featured-third":false,"bravada-lpbox-1":false,"bravada-lpbox-2":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Going to the office on Saturday is not a habit of mine, but today I was there to sit in with the first ‘Agap\u00e8 Challenge’ …","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Agap\u00e8<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Agap\u00e8<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["thoughts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["thoughts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst 19 jaar geleden","modified":"Bijgewerkt 19 jaar geleden"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst op 30 september 2007","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 20 oktober 2007"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Geplaatst op 30 september 2007 20:47","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 20 oktober 2007 23:39"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63Qy-7N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":396,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/23\/rotterdam-revisited\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":0},"title":"Rotterdam revisited","author":"Mark","date":"23 februari 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Visited Rotterdam twice this week, on Tuesday and on Friday. 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