Archive - September, 2008

Friday Five……on Saturday

September 27, 2008 in Friday Five with 0 Comments

I've really been slacking on the blog and twitter.  But, here are my five favorite blogs from the week:

Vince Antonucci – Whoops! (8 of 8) – Vince talks about the importance of systems. 

Multisite Church Revolution – Multisite Governance – Congregational – A congregationally-led multisite church responded to the question I talked about here.

Tony Morgan – Differences Between Big and Small Churches – Tony talks about a recent Baylor University study about that busts some megachurch myths.

Carey Nieuwhof – Overflow:  Making Margin – Carey talks about the benefits of having margin in your life.

Casey Ross – Leading Yourself – Casey talks about the difficulties we face when trying to lead ourselves.

Churchmetrics.com

September 25, 2008 in Church Culture, Church Planting, Strategy with 0 Comments

LifeChurch.tv announced a new website they have built for churches……..for free!  It helps churches measure and track important information in the life of the church.  I'm continuously amazed at the kingdom mindset LifeChurch.tv has and the great ways they're equipping churches for free. Below is the video that previews this new web application.  I can't wait to see if it's something we can use at CCC.

Friday Five

September 19, 2008 in Friday Five with 0 Comments

Here are my five favorite blog posts from the week:

Adam Flynt – A question for those who serve weekly in church – Great point.  Most of us error on the side of doing and not growing.

Ryan Frank – Carnegie and children's ministry…part 3 – A list of ideas to help teams communicate effectively. 

Catalyst – The Best Cupbearer You Can Be – Good reminder of from Mark Batterson's new book.

Ed Stetzer – Coaching, Mentoring and Life Change – I would have to agree with Ed that coaching and mentoring is not common and underappreciated in churches.

Steven Furtick – Empowerment – Great thoughts on measuring staff effectiveness

Congregationally Led Multisite Church?

September 16, 2008 in Church Culture, Leadership with 0 Comments

I read this post on the Multisite Church Revolution blog Monday.  At the Multisite Exposed Conference somebody asked a question during one of the workshops.  Greg Ligon wrote that somebody asked:

"How have churches with a congregational governance structure functioned with multiple campuses?"

Greg asked the readers of the blog if they know of any multisite churches that have a congregational governance structure.  So far, no comments.  I would imagine there are a few, but to me there's a lot more to this issue.  The bottom line is, it would be very difficult for a congregationally led church to go multisite.  The reason I say that is my limited knowledge of congregationally led churches has led me to believe that in general they are way behind the curve in innovation due to the fact that change is slow and painful. 

A congregationally led church that is innovative and can makes changes quickly probably has a very strong, persuasive leader who has a lot of relational change with the congregation.  That's a great thing, but there's definitely more to it when looking at why there are so few (if any) congregationally led churches that are multisite.

Friday Five

September 12, 2008 in Friday Five with 0 Comments

Here are my five favorite blog posts from this week:

Adam Flynt – Be a Uniter not a Divider – Which one are you?

Catalyst – LifeChurch.tv Killing Church Members – Okay, they're not exactly killing members.  Interesting move on their part.

Steven Furtick – Whad do you do to take care of your staff? - Interesting ideas.  I'd love to how hard they are pushed as well. 

Ben Arment – What Complaining Says About You - How true.

Perry Noble – Three Things You Should NOT Do In A Meeting - I'll be using this in meeting planning

Praising God in the NFL

September 10, 2008 in NFL, Religion with 0 Comments

Sorry it's been so long since I blogged.  Things have been crazy lately.  Anyhow, I was just do 3 things at once, one of which was listening to the NFL Network.  They were doing the segment where they talk to the director of officiating to clarify rules and look at controversial calls.  They talked about the rule against celebrating certain ways in the end zone.  Basically, no part of a player's body can touch the ground when they're celebrating, unless, and I quote – "they are praising the Lord".

Very interesting.  The director of officiating said that the rule is in place because he doesn't want to get struck by lighting.  Of course, the rule is in place because they don't want to clamp down on people's religious rights.  But, it made me think about the fact that mentioning such things publicly is a no no for most companies.  The NFL is an interesting dichotomy of a group of players, some of which make big mistakes regularly (a player is arrested about once every 10 days) and others exhibit high character and talk about God and Jesus more than most Christians.  I would go out on a limb and say that the NFL may have more Christian "employees" as a percentage than most non-Christian organizations.

I wonder why that is. 

I have thoughts, what are yours?

Friday Five…sort of

September 6, 2008 in Friday Five with 0 Comments

Well, things have been crazy the past few weeks which has led to very little blogging and twittering.  My only blogs have been back-to-back Friday Fives, and then I missed it yesterday, but here's the Friday Five…..on Saturday.  I had to get through 220+ blogs (most of which I didn't read) be here are my favorite 5 from this week:

Ben Arment – Don't Tell Me Your Church's Core Values – Ben says that a church's real values are on display, regardless of what's on paper.

Perry Noble – Bob – Who is the Bob in your life?  That hit me square in the face.

Ben Arment – Church Plant Rant – I totally agree with this post.

Tony Morgan – The Furture of Student Ministry? – Tony talks about how NewSpring is dealing with limited space & resources in relation to a growing student ministry.

Seth Godin – Fixing the one big thing – Making me think about what the one big thing is, good or bad, about CCC.