Posts tagged “church”

Pastors: “Go the F^(% Home”

Posted on April 9th, 2012

Something I have been fond of saying to church professional types for a while is If you’re working more than 40 hours a week, you’re doing it wrong. Here’s the truth: Jesus came to set us free and show us the way to Abundant Life. If we were to judge by the life of most pastors (who are ostensibly in the know about this sort of thing) then – I gotta be honest – the Christian life is not a life I want. Pastors are stressed out all the time. You’re telling me that sacrificing myself is going to lead to an Abundance of Stress? No thank you. I wrote about this a bit in Open Source Church, but this video by Pam the…

Categories: Church, Leadership

Tagged: abundant life, church, leadership, religion, spirituality

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

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

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

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