Church mission: Lessons from marketing
In this video, renowned marketing expert Seth Godin delivers a speech at Google where he shared his insights on marketing, excellence and building a remarkable organization. Although the video is fun to watch, and very insightful, it is in the applications that I see to church planting that the gems are there for […]
Comparing a church to a bar
Rich Tatum has been brave enough to post an article on his blog comparing a church to a bar. Some heated comments have sprung up. It asks some serious questions - questions that are far reaching, probing and scary. Go check it out here.
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CREATORS OF CULTURE
In “Evangelicals seek role as ‘creators of culture’”, MSNBC report on how once art-wary evangelicals are now seeking to impact and spearhead popular culture rather than producing christianeze art for Christians. This article is so encouraging. It rightly points to the fact that the Church is supposed to be at the forefront of […]
Faith in the midst of an invasion
Percentage of Americans who believe in God:
Percentage of Europeans who believe in God:
Interesting images. I have no way of ascertaining their validity, nor of checking what criteria was used in these two different surveys. Wikipedia has this to say:
A November–December 2006 poll published in the Financial Times gives rates for the United […]
Facing the Giants
This weekend I curled up on my sofa (Couch) to watch, for the second time, “Facing the Giants“. If you have not seen this film, what are you waiting for??? This is an epic, modern day version of “David and Goliath“ showing what happens when a small-town highschool’s football team gets rocked by […]
Book review: Off-Road Disciplines of Missional Leaders
Just reviewed “Off-Road Disciplines of Missional Leaders” in Amazon as part of the deal that I had with the publishers. I got the book for free if only I wrote a review at amazon. The folowing were my thoughts on the book:
The cure for the irrelevance of the gospel to today’s culture requires […]
Deconstructing myself.
Pentecostals believe in religious experience the way electricians believe in electricity: without it, we have no reason to show up for work.
Reading through Earl Creps’ “Off-Road Disciplines - Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders“. As a member of the blogging community, I was sent a free copy of the book by the publishers after […]
Missional Vs. Maintenance Churches
Mark, of madetopraisehim fame, has got me thinking. In a post that contrasts missional churches with maintenance churches he lists a whole lot of areas where we simply have the “churchianized” gospel back to front This makes me ask myself some hard questions, the answers to which I share down below:
Where […]
