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		<title>One Thing Needed: The Restoration of Scripture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu PhD: Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana. The one thing that is most needed for the renewal of the church is the restoration of Scripture to its rightful place in her teaching and preaching ministry. Major renewals experienced by the church in its history have all been inspired by the Holy Spirit and ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/preaching/one-thing-needed-for-renewal-series-part1/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: Fall in Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lovett Weems, Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership and Director of the G. Douglass Lewis Center for Church Leadership While no one thing is most needful for church renewal, one practice that could go a long way toward that goal is for churches to fall in love with their communities again. The longer a church has ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/one-thing-needed/one-thing-needed-fall-in-love/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: Drunkenness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amos Yong, J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology and Director of Philosophy Program at Regent Divinity School Virginia Beach, VA As a pentecostal theologian, why would I not go back to the Pentecost narrative to respond to the question of what is needed for church renewal? In that narrative, I see that the explosive beginnings ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/theology/one-thing-needed-drunkenness/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: Graceful Articulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim Reisman, Founder and Director of Next Step Evangelism in Lafayette, IN The one thing most needed for church renewal is graceful articulation. The movie The Notebook is a beautiful story of love and faithfulness centering on the long life of an older couple. The woman has Alzheimer&#8217;s and the movie unfolds as her husband ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/one-thing-needed/one-thing-needed-graceful-articulation/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: Righteousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Bounds, Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN Saint Augustine of Hippo taught that we are defined as human beings by our greatest desire. Whatever we long for most in life, ultimately determines the decisions and choices we make. All other complimentary desires are aligned with this chief longing, and ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/one-thing-needed/one-thing-needed-righteousness/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: Transformational Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Langford, Pastor, Concord Central United Methodist Church, Concord, NC One thing needed for church renewal is worship that transforms the lives of the people who gather in every congregation. Worships stands at the heart of a renewed congregation. No other ministry, no other activity, and no other focus is more important. I have been ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/one-thing-needed/one-thing-needed-transformational-worship/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: A Biblical View of the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker, Resident Bishop, Florida Conference, The United Methodist Church One thing needed for church renewal is a biblical understanding of the church. This may seem like an odd proposal. Aren’t there programmatic proposals, such as a recovery of the Wesleyan class meeting for accountable discipleship under lay leadership, which would renew the ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/one-thing-needed/one-thing-needed-a-biblical-view-of-the-church/</link>
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		<title>One Thing Needed: Practical Preaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rev. W. Darin Moore, Pastor of Greater Centennial A.M.E. Zion Church, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. The one thing most needed for church renewal is practical preaching. In an age when some have proclaimed the impending &#8220;death&#8221; of preaching, where so many have found preaching useless and dated, in a time where throngs of even the most ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/preaching/one-thing-needed-for-church-renewal-series-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Embrace: A Church Plant that Broke All the Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spirit’s work of renewal surprises us by coming in a variety of forms. For example, the Spirit has worked to renew the church through the sacraments, mission, discipleship, healing, conversion, social transformation and new church starts. Unfortunately, many of these forms have been over-contextualized in the models, myths and narratives of the Western empire ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/media/embrace-a-church-plant-that-broke-all-the-rules/</link>
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		<title>The Holy Spirit in Mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Far too often it is assumed that people who talk a lot about the Holy Spirit are tone-deaf to matters of social justice and social action. In this wonderful new book, Gary Tyra shows that a robust doctrine of the Holy Spirit leads not to a crass and self-serving prosperity gospel but to prophetic speech ]]></description>
		<link>http://churchrenewal.united.edu/media/the-holy-spirit-in-mission/</link>
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