The New GM?

Check out this video:

Lesson for churches: Repentance comes before renewal.  This definitely merits expanded commentary, but I’d rather start a conversation.
What do you think?

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How will Social Media, New Technologies Change Church Ministry?

This question could be framed a bit differently, because social media and new technologies are changing church ministries.  I’ve experienced this firsthand.  Through my blog, Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media I have made connections with people unexpectedly, leveraged some of those connections, and engaged in conversations I would not otherwise have had. [...]

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Are you part of a movement?

Seth Godin has written a great little book called Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us.  I posted Godin’s TED Talk on the material here.  Among Godin’s many challenges, he exhorts his readers to start a movement.  Here is what Godin says concerning the anatomy of a movement:
 
Senator Billy Bradley defines a movement as having three [...]

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Do the people on your team trust one another?

Do you work with other people on a day in, day out basis?  Do the people you work with trust one another?  Why?  Or, why not?
One of the most important aspects of building a solid team is knowing that you can trust those alongside you.  Whether you are starting an organization from scratch or inheriting [...]

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Seth Godin :: Tribes

If you are leading anyone, anywhere, watch this talk.  If you’re not leading, we need you to lead.  Especially all of those Christian-leader types that I know read my blog.  Or the students who are dreaming about a better world.  Or the chronic complainers who can tell you everything that is wrong with the world [...]

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Remarkable? That Should Come (Super)Naturally.

I’ve been reading some odd stuff lately.  Not odd as in strange, odd as in outside my norm.  Mostly I read theology and Bible.  My friends know that I read Hauerwas.  Some say I’ve picked up some of his habits.  However, I don’t really curse and I have remained somewhat likable.  I guess I’m still [...]

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The Curse of the Analytic Mind

The risk in thinking “worldviewishly” is that we will start to think that the best way to change culture is to analyze it.  We will start worldview academies, host worldview seminars, write worldview books.  These may have some real value if they help us understand the horizons that our culture shapes, but they cannot substitute [...]

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Great Questions for Technologically Innovative Ecclesial Bodies

The title for this post will never come up in a Google search.  Oh well.
I have been involved in a number of discussions on the pros and cons of multi-site and video venue church ministries, and I have no shortage of opinions on whether such ventures are good for the future of the church.  Though [...]

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Tony Jones No Longer to Serve as National Coordinator of Emergent Village

The new year brought a change to Emergent Village, with Tony Jones no longer serving as the National Coordinator.  This news broke here, among other places, in November, and was among the changes outlined in an online letter posted to Emergent’s Weblog.  I wasn’t aware of this change until yesterday when spotting it as a [...]

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Suffering’s a Coming…

In the most recent edition of Christianity Today an article by Richard Foster entitled, “Spiritual Formation Agenda” notes the deep need of Christian communities to undertake the “heart work” or Christian character formation in the next 30 years, otherwise the church will “dry up and blow away.”  Foster writes of the need for growth in [...]

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