Saturday, September 25, 2004
Destroy Your Church!
Destroy your church or it will die.
There's just no way that we can keep doing what we're doing and say that we're doing our best. Renovation is not enough. Renewal is not enough. Revival is not enough. It will take a radical upheaval of the way we think about church and ministry to be the Church of the 21st century.
We must tear down...
...the constructs of current spirituality.
...the inherited mindset of an obsolete paradigm.
...the altars upon which we idolize our sacred cows.
...the comfort of past successes.
...the box in which we live.
DYC!
There's just no way that we can keep doing what we're doing and say that we're doing our best. Renovation is not enough. Renewal is not enough. Revival is not enough. It will take a radical upheaval of the way we think about church and ministry to be the Church of the 21st century.
We must tear down...
...the constructs of current spirituality.
...the inherited mindset of an obsolete paradigm.
...the altars upon which we idolize our sacred cows.
...the comfort of past successes.
...the box in which we live.
DYC!
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Re-Imagine
It is the foremost task---and responsibility---of this generation to re-imagine all of our institutions, private and public. -Tom Peters
Way to go, Tom! I think this is so true. With the condition of the church and the nation, there is no way we can be convinced that the way we have been running the country and the church has been effective. More of the same stuff but expecting different results is insanity! We have to question everything we do --- EVERYTHING!
DYC - Destroy Your Church
DYB - Destroy Your Business
DYG - Destroy Your Government
We're gonna have to come up with brand new ways to be the church...to run our businesses....to run government.
We'd have to be idiots to keep on doing what we have been doing all along. This only brought us into a P3 trillion debt. And 7% reach factor in 100 years of evangelical Christianity. And dysfunctional politics.
Where are the rising youngbloods? Where are the mavericks? The freaks that are willing to lay it on the line and forge a new path?
Way to go, Tom! I think this is so true. With the condition of the church and the nation, there is no way we can be convinced that the way we have been running the country and the church has been effective. More of the same stuff but expecting different results is insanity! We have to question everything we do --- EVERYTHING!
DYC - Destroy Your Church
DYB - Destroy Your Business
DYG - Destroy Your Government
We're gonna have to come up with brand new ways to be the church...to run our businesses....to run government.
We'd have to be idiots to keep on doing what we have been doing all along. This only brought us into a P3 trillion debt. And 7% reach factor in 100 years of evangelical Christianity. And dysfunctional politics.
Where are the rising youngbloods? Where are the mavericks? The freaks that are willing to lay it on the line and forge a new path?
Thursday, September 09, 2004
More Thoughts from the Purple Cow
No one is going to eagerly adapt to your product. The vast majority of consumers are happy. Stuck. Sold on what they’ve got. They’re not looking for a replacement, and they don’t like adapting to anything new. You don’t have the power to force them to.
- Seth Godin, Purple Cow
Doesn't Seth sound like he is describing the attitude that most of the world has towards Christianity? How do we deal with that? Here's more of Seth...
The only chance you have is to sell to people who like change, who like new stuff, who are actively looking for what it is you sell. Then you hope that the idea spreads, moving from early adopters to the rest of the curve. After the early adopters embrace what you’re selling, they are the ones who will sell it to the early majority – not you. (SG)
What implications does this reality present to the way we are trying to reach the world? How does this impact the way we influence people for Christ? I think that for most of the post-consumption world, mass evangelism is dead.
- Seth Godin, Purple Cow
Doesn't Seth sound like he is describing the attitude that most of the world has towards Christianity? How do we deal with that? Here's more of Seth...
The only chance you have is to sell to people who like change, who like new stuff, who are actively looking for what it is you sell. Then you hope that the idea spreads, moving from early adopters to the rest of the curve. After the early adopters embrace what you’re selling, they are the ones who will sell it to the early majority – not you. (SG)
What implications does this reality present to the way we are trying to reach the world? How does this impact the way we influence people for Christ? I think that for most of the post-consumption world, mass evangelism is dead.
Purple Cow
Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It’s a Purple Cow. Boring stuff is invisible. It’s a brown cow.
-Seth Godin, Purple Cow
There was a time when the Gospel and the community it formed (church) was a purple cow; a time when it was remarkable. Maybe we've been getting it wrong. Maybe instead of trying to produce Christians who know how to do all the religious and spiritual things we think good Christians do, we need to be discipling people in how to live remarkable lives.
The Gospel was an ideavirus that spread exponentially throughout the entire Roman Empire in the first century. It was a remarkable thing that a dead, Jewish, rabbi would come back to life and then offer that life to others. Today, it's an unremarkable holiday that simply means that we get an extra day or two off from work.
The Gospel community known as the church was just as remarkable. The way they lived their lives together was "worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting." It was a remarkable thing to watch the church in action. Living. Loving. Serving. Sacrificng.
A new day is breaking. The Old ways of packaging Christian spirituality is dying a slow and painful death. It's time for some of us to hear the vibe that resonates in our hearts. It's time to make the Gospel and the Church a Purple Cow.
-Seth Godin, Purple Cow
There was a time when the Gospel and the community it formed (church) was a purple cow; a time when it was remarkable. Maybe we've been getting it wrong. Maybe instead of trying to produce Christians who know how to do all the religious and spiritual things we think good Christians do, we need to be discipling people in how to live remarkable lives.
The Gospel was an ideavirus that spread exponentially throughout the entire Roman Empire in the first century. It was a remarkable thing that a dead, Jewish, rabbi would come back to life and then offer that life to others. Today, it's an unremarkable holiday that simply means that we get an extra day or two off from work.
The Gospel community known as the church was just as remarkable. The way they lived their lives together was "worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting." It was a remarkable thing to watch the church in action. Living. Loving. Serving. Sacrificng.
A new day is breaking. The Old ways of packaging Christian spirituality is dying a slow and painful death. It's time for some of us to hear the vibe that resonates in our hearts. It's time to make the Gospel and the Church a Purple Cow.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
That was a long vacation!
Sorry to all you guys out there that have been bored out of your skulls waiting for something new on here. Been away for the past 4 months and I just got plain lazy to blog. Hay! But I'm back....(drum roll)
Dont know exactly where this blogging is taking me. I need to do some revisions on the site. I want to make it more intersting for you guys and add pictures and thoughts from stuff I'm reading. I'd love to hear from you especially if anything I'm writing resonates with your own thoughts. Let's riff!
Dont know exactly where this blogging is taking me. I need to do some revisions on the site. I want to make it more intersting for you guys and add pictures and thoughts from stuff I'm reading. I'd love to hear from you especially if anything I'm writing resonates with your own thoughts. Let's riff!
