A Wired San Diego

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 28, 2004 in Church, Culture | 0 comments

Our church has spent time developing a website and placing a lot of content on the site for visitors and regulars. Most of the visitors that come to our church say they first researched our church online. Frequently guests have already listened to mp3 sermons, read teachings/articles and our statement of beliefs, etc. This is how many people find their church in San Diego. Here are some interesting stats I read this weekend in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

“America Online this week ranked San Diego County as the No. 3 metropolitan area in the United States for online holiday shopping, behind San Francisco and Los Angeles”.

“In San Diego County, seven out of 10 home Internet users have broadband connections, such as a cable modem or digital subscriber line, making it the top region in the United States for high-speed Internet access.”

Part of our church’s mission is to bring the message of the gospel and communicate it to the community we live in. For many that communication begins through visiting our website.

The Vertex

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 24, 2004 in Church Technology, Sheep&Goats | 0 comments

The Vertex is a ‘postmodern’ evening worship at First Baptist Coronado. View this week’ column The Vertex >

What Christians should learn from Queers

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 22, 2004 in Culture | 1 comment

The week wore my wife and I out. After a quick dinner in Hillcrest (‚ÄúWell known as San Diego ‘s gay and lesbian Mecca‚Äù Union Tribune) we decided to rent a movie and call it a night. I dropped my wife off at home to put our son to sleep and drove to the nearby Blockbuster. Recently, the movie Saved! was recommended to us, so I hurried to the ‚Äòs’ area and picked up the movie. It was then I noticed a young man and woman browsing nearby. The woman, a hip urbanite said, ‚ÄúThat’s a good movie. It is a little strange though.‚Äù It is important to state, that my week had been a long one, work was crazy, and my wife and I had just had a conversation about serious life stuff, so I had entered into Blockbuster this evening in a utilitarian mode. Without thinking, I retorted, ‚ÄúYah, but are you a Christian?‚Äù Full Article >

Reformission & Culture

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 17, 2004 in Church, Church Technology, Culture, Sheep&Goats | 0 comments

‚ÄúEach year 3,500 churches die. Most of these churches are liberal churches or from traditional denominations,‚Äù remarked Pastor Mark Driscoll. Mark Driscoll is the Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, where the congregation consists primarily of people in their twenties and thirties. As many churches across the country die, Mars Hill has grown from 12 people to over 3,000 in the last six years in ‚Äúone of the least churched cities,‚Äù comments Pastor Driscoll. ‚ÄúMany of the dying churches don’t know how to reach out to non-Christians in ways that reflect the lives of people today. If changes aren’t made, a church will lose future generations.‚Äù Driscoll’s call is for churches to speak to the culture without losing the hard truths of the Bible. Full Article >

(This is an article I wrote published in the San Diego Reader November 18, 2004 Volume 33 / Number 47)

San Diego Churches

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 16, 2004 in Church | 0 comments

It’s been interesting visiting so many San Diego churches. I’m learning a lot from this experience as far as all the diff’t denominations and beliefs. Of course I’m still sold on my favorite San Diego Church (thanks Mr. Berroth for your review).