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Of Saviors and Superheroes

Posted on February 18th, 2012

My earliest memories were in church.  Life began and ended there.  My life began there, and, some would say, my “real life” as a child of God began there too. We went to this remarkably big church for a while in Broken Arrow, OK, which is just outside of Tulsa.  It was your typical early to mid-eighties Charismatic church.  There was singing and dancing galore – holy rollers to be sure.  I have a vivid memory of that church because, apparently, that’s where I “accepted Jesus into my heart.” “Accepting Jesus into your heart” was a big deal in my family.  It seemed like every moment of your life your family would look forward to you “getting saved.”  It happened to me when I…

Categories: Testimony

Tagged: church, conversion, holy ghost, holy roller, holy rollers, salvation, worship

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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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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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The Open Source Church (Chapter 1) outline

Posted on April 14th, 2010

Here’s the working outline for Chapter 1: “The Open Source Church.”  This would put the Wikipedia chapter second.

Categories: Church

Tagged: church, open source, outline

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open source church chapter outline

Posted on March 26th, 2010

Open Source Church chapter outline Task numero uno: make sure the outline works.The link above will take you to a copy of the outline I sent in with my proposal. When I got word that my proposal had been accepted, I was also asked to think about a few things. Does the book really have two sections?: Is the break between the two a strong one, strong enough to warrant merging them? I’m inclined to think so. You? Should the book begin with the chapter on Wikipedia?: Again, I’m inclined to think so.

Categories: Church

Tagged: book proposal, church, open source, outline, wikipedia, writing

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