Found some great stuff last week via the Twittersphere and wanted to pass them along! Does the Bridge Illustration Still Work? via Justin Wise’s blog BeDeviant The comments a worth checking out. Here’s one: “I believe that the culture has moved beyond its obsession with salvation and moralism, and is rather asking itself far more …
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Faith on Campus is a great site for college ministers. Guy Chmieleski, a univeristy minister at Belmont University blogs regularly about strategies and issues related to college ministry. He’s hosting a blogathon on his site next Tuesday through Friday similar to the Re-Think Blogference Format. Here’s what Guy says about it: “Over the course of …
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Starting and building a ministry requires growing your leadership team in both quantity (number of leaders) and quality (ability + spiritual maturity). Inevitably a ministry leader needs to take some risks on younger/less qualified people in order to increase the number of leaders, which ultimately grows the size (and health) of the entire ministry. But …
“Braddock changed when the world started to change” The way the townspeople spoke about the past deeply struck me. I’ve heard those same sentiments in the church and in Campus Crusade–a desire for the good ole days, and a resistance toward newness or renewal. I’m excited about the young entrepreneurs I see in the church …
small groups and programs worship services that mix traditional and contemporary styles with an emphasis on relevant sermons pastors who work hard on mentorship and cultivation of the laity an emphasis on effective lay leadership. The Methodists concluded a study of 32,000 of their own congregations and noted that these four were true of every …
I’ve been seeing/hearing more conversations around Doug Pollock’s book God Space and found a short video interview where Doug talks a bit about the book. Have you read God Space? Are you using it in a training or discipleship context? Would love to hear about it!
I love resource sites; I hate downloading content that’s too long, not what I wanted, or extremely long. Solution: My Top 5 Page No it’s not perfect but here are some features that I hope you will like: Preview the text documents on the page before downloading Print right from the page All have been …
“Rather than creating some sort of idealized path structure that ignores history and tradition and human nature…look where the paths are already being formed by behavior and then formalize them.”–Paving the Cowpaths from the Designing Social Interfaces Blog Leaders must have a compelling vision and know where they want to go but those that see …
I’m a sucker for vision and long term strategy but getting something done RIGHT NOW that’s important feels so good. Here’s some links that have helped me: 1. Turn Up the Heat: “Raising the temperature of an insurance company’s offices from 68 degrees to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 25 C) reduced typing errors by …
A huge thanks to those of you who have provided feedback on the ministry funnel. It’s changed dramatically in the last few days as I have processed the feedback. The goal is simple: Create a resource to help ministry leaders diagnose their current reality and implement future-oriented, value-driven strategy and tactics. Since the funnel has …
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