In creating and nurturing an amazing corporate culture, Fast Company reports Method’s “method” lies in distilling their purpose into these five core values: • Keep Method weird • What would MacGyver do • Innovate, don’t imitate • Collaborate like crazy • Care Translated for the Church: • Find your unique personality • WWJD (the obvious… Continue reading the method of Method
The Center For Church Communications is launching a cool new resource for churches called “OUTSPOKEN – Conversations on Church Communications.” The book, which releases this Thursday, Sept. 15 at Story in Chicago, features perspectives from more than 60 church communications pros. “Outspoken covers everything from general marketing to writing, outreach to design, leadership to websites,”… Continue reading outspoken
In the discussion about women’s roles in the church, Phoebe can be a difficult character for complementarians to face. In Romans 16:1, Paul introduces her with, “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church…” The problem is immediately apparent: a woman as deacon – who is a leader in the church.… Continue reading phoebe’s true significance
More significant takeaways from last week’s Q Conference: Steven Garber spoke of how vocation is integral to the mission of God. “Most of what God is doing in the world is being done through the vocations of his people.” This idea was reiterated by David Kinnaman of the Barna Group, who challenged the Church to… Continue reading notes from Q – pt. 2
Q really is pretty unique as far as conferences go. It’s about 4 things: Culture, Future, Church, and Gospel. And it studies our culture’s seven channels of influence: Church, social sector, business, education, government, arts & entertainment, and media. Q’s wide range of speakers address how we as believers can proactively and positively influence our… Continue reading notes from Q 2011
In the 7-week Lent series at my church we’re looking at the spiritual disciplines Jesus portrayed during his 40 days in the desert. This past weekend we talked about solitude. After a slightly scaled-back worship set, Pastor Gene Appel started his message… in silence, using the placards in the pictures above. The silence was several… Continue reading lent series week 2 : solitude
In yesterday’s post, I talked about the multi-site strategy as franchise church, and noted that Rick Warren’s Saddleback added a site in the same area as 3-4 existing local mega-churches. A commenter pointed out that Mars Hill Church of Seattle will soon be joining them all. Pastor Mark Driscoll on Twitter: “Planning @MarsHillOC campus launch.… Continue reading more multi-site church questions
