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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 2 (so far)

Posted on August 1st, 2010

The bad news is that I didn’t get Chapter 2 done by the time I left for vacation. The good news is I continue to disprove my fear that I’ll have nothing to say. Here’s the draft of Chapter 2 so far. I’m about 1/3 through the outline, but I don’t yet have a sense of how many words will come with each chapter section, so I don’t know if I’m looking at 1/3 of the total words in the chapter. I’m putting this up on the blog with my new iPad, which is proving to be an amazingly distraction free machine to write on (This is the one time I’m grateful that Steve Jobs did not put multitasking on an iDevice… ). I’m…

Categories: Church

Tagged: five pillars, open source, truth, wikipedia

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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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