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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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Plant a church, but don’t do it alone. That would be dumb.

Posted on January 18th, 2012

One of the perils in communication is that you will neither communicate everything you intended, nor will everyone receive what you did communicate accurately. One of those two things happened last week when I encouraged “Young(ish) Mainline Pastor Type People” to plant a church. I got two basic responses. From old(er-ish), more established pastors the response generally was, “Yeah! Right on!”, while the future pastors in the crowd generally said “No way! We’re not taking the responsibility for this on our own.” (I was talking to a friend today and we both noted that, really, no pastors in their late 20′s/early 30′s who have had a call for 4-5 years said anything. Hmmm….) I would like to address a fraction of that second response.…

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Tagged: church planting, educational debt, landon whitsitt, mainline, mainline church, plant a church

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