Letters

I've had acronyms bouncing around in my head lately as I digest things I've learned recently at conferences and in my reading. I thought I'd write them down here because they're just so darn interesting and it would be a way, possibly, of introducing what I'm pondering. I'll list them here with a general definitions. In coming days, I'll write one post on each acronmym and how I am using them or see them being used. So here they are:

• THEOSS: The letters of this acronym stand for Tender, Happy, Excited, Out of Sorts, Sad and Scared. This is my adaptation of SASHET, which I learned from John White at the Living the Mission Conference in June in Minneapolis. You can find out more about John at http://www.lk10.com/
• ALiCTS: (Alley Cats?) This is an adaptation of the tried and true prayer guide, ACTS, which stands for Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication. The letters "Li" stand for listening. This also is inspired by John White, who talked a lot about listening prayer.
• H2O: This is the name I'm thinking of giving groups of 2 or 3 (at most 4). These would be accountability groups and the basic building blocks for church/kingdom multiplication. An H20 group would be comparable to White's CO2 (Church Of 2) group, Neil Cole's Life Transformation Groups, or DNA (Divine Focus, Nurturing Relationships, Apostolic Mission) groups. H2O stand for "Him" (upward focus), "2" ( focus on relationship, "Wherever 2 are gathered..."), "Others" (Luke 10:2b focus on mission, ala White and Cole).
• THRPL GREWP: (Thirple Grewp) I invented this acronym to help me memorize Philippians 4:8 and to help direct my thinking. "Finally brothers, whatever True, whatever is Honorable, whatever is Right, whatever is Pure, whatever is Lovely, whatever is of Good Repute, if there is any Excellence, or anything of Good Repute, think on those things."