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Infastructure matters

Posted on February 14th, 2012

Who cares if there’s a GigantoMegaSuperStore over there if there are no roads leading to it? In this time of restructuring and change, we need to make sure that we are paying attention to the the infrastructure of the system. We have to make sure that the Big Ideas we are generating have some place to go because it truly is about arriving at a destination. In the place I live, real estate development is exploding. It seems like every single day there is a new building going up here or there. But for a long time all there was were roads. Roads leading nowhere. But when they put those roads in, they did it with the plan that, someday, there was going to be…

Categories: Church, Leadership

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Dear God, please stop calling pastors

Posted on February 9th, 2012

Dear God, I know we talked earlier, but I have something important that I’d like to ask you so I thought I’d send you a letter. I usually do better thinking through thoughts when I write them out. Don’t think that you need to give me an answer right away, but I’d sure love an answer sooner rather than later. So, here’s the deal: I’d like to ask you to stop calling “pastors” to the ministry. As I understand it (from that awesome book of yours) the word “pastor” is drawn from the word “shepherd.” The purpose of the shepherd is to protect and provide for the sheep, to feed them well, and keep them healthy. To be sure, sometimes this means that the…

Categories: Church, Evangelism, Leadership

Tagged: church planting, evangelism, evangelists

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10 ways being a Theatre Major prepared me for ministry

Posted on February 3rd, 2012

I have, on many occasion, said that my time in the theatre has been instrumental to any success I have had in my life. Whether it was acting, directing, designing sets or lighting, my time spent wrasslin’ the muse of theatre has paid big dividends in my life. I can especially see the fruits in the various work I do in the church, and when a college friend of mine posted this link today, I knew I wasn’t crazy. Well, not for this reason, at least. So, inspired by Tom Vander Well‘s post, here are the 10 ways that being a Theatre Major prepared me for a life in church work: 1) Improvisation Theatre taught me how to focus, think quickly and make do…

Categories: Church, Leadership

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The New Evangelism

Posted on January 30th, 2012

Last night I found a pretty cool docu as I was cruising Vimeo. It’s called Influencers: How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious. Here it is: As I watched, my mind naturally went to the idea of “pastors as influencers,” mostly because, well, I self-identify as a pastor. But the more and more I thought of it, the more I realized that I had an opportunity here to explore an area I feel compelled to gain a depth of knowledge and wisdom in: EVANGELISM. Confession: I have a visceral reaction to the word and idea of “evangelism.” I am not joking. It makes my skin crawl, and I start to feel a little sick. I am not joking. In the Fundegelical culture I grew up…

Categories: Evangelism, Leadership

Tagged: church, church leaders, church planting, discernment, influencers, mainline church, networked culture, open source, plant a church

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10 Indicators of an Authoritarian Church Leader

Posted on January 27th, 2012

Scot McKinght at Jesus Creed offers ten indicators to look for to determine if your community of faith is suffering from authoritarian leadership: (1). There is never any freedom to question the leader. (2). The leader often makes claims of having special insights from God, insights that the laity are unable to possess. (3). Disagreement with the leader is deemed a sign of the devil’s influence in one’s life. (4). Events are designed to bring attention and praise to the leader rather than equipping others to do the work of the ministry. (5). Any concept of equality is immediately labeled rebellion or the end result of a “liberal” denial of the Bible. (6) Authoritarian leaders are only comfortable around like-minded leaders; thus, there is an unoffical ‘speaking tour’…

Categories: Church, Leadership, Theology

Tagged: authoritarian leaders, authoritarian leadership, christian leadership, servant leadership

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