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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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How to be a leader in the Church

Posted on January 23rd, 2012

Or anywhere, really. Thanks to my Facebook friends, I ran across this video this morning:

Categories: Church

Tagged: church leaders, Differentiated Leadership, Edwin Friedman, Failure of Nerve

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Chapter 1 Rough Draft – “The Open Source Church”

Posted on July 1st, 2010

Weighing in at just over 10,000 words (seriously – did I just puke all over the page or what?) here is a very rough first draft of Chapter 1 – The Open Source Church. Please spread the news about the link.  Feel free to leave comments here or send them to landon@landonville.com.

Categories: Church

Tagged: bruce perens, cathedral and bazaar, church, church leaders, eric s. raymond, open source, open source definition, richard stallman

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Chapter 3 outline – Leaders Lead

Posted on April 29th, 2010

Here’s a stab at my outline for Chapter 3: “Leaders lead, but experts do what exactly?”

Categories: Church

Tagged: church leaders, outline

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