If the devil is 6, then God is 7

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 20, 2005 in Culture | 0 comments

this monkey’s going to heaven… (if you’re in a short post mode from the PIXIES – MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN LYRICS)

Emerging From Church De-Construction to Church Kingdom Building

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 19, 2005 in Church | 2 comments

This is a transition that our church has gone through, that I believe all church planters should contemplate. It is something that I see as a common denominator from many of the Acts 29 churches that are making a large impact on their community. Some of those who are extremely gifted in this area are Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill and Rick McKinley at Imago Dei Community. I pray that Kaleo would learn from these but also forge our identity as we consider the following:

To make a Kingdom-impact on your local community and the world-at-large, you must move from Deconstruction to Kingdom Building.

Driscoll and McKinely are just two of the pastors I know that do an amazing job at casting a vision and gathering people to join that vision. I attended Mars Hill for about 5 years and was always impressed by Driscoll’s vision-casting often at the beginning of the service. It was a ‘here is where we are going as a church’ that got people passionate about what Mars Hill was doing. When I think of Driscoll it is the counter-culture message he preaches that contradicts a city that is one of the least church cities in the country. Driscoll has rallied a group around this great cause he champions. Where Driscoll spear-heads this vision at Mars Hill, McKinley does this through servant-leaders. There is a platform for the ministry leaders, other pastors, even author Donald Miller and others to cast the vision and gather groups around ministry, cultural ideas and kindgom-mindness. Both have different methods but both work.

The common denominator is that instead of reacting against, they are building towards something. If you are an emerging church, what is your identity? As I attend ‘postmodern’ or churches that would say they are ‘emerging’ they usually can tell me what they are not. We don’t have central leadership, we don’t sing old-school hymns, we don’t have traditional worship, we don’t…[fill in the blank]. In the long run, I don’t think you can rally too many people to this cause and anti-identity.

David Fairchild (preaching elder at Kaleo) and I have been speaking about where Kaleo’s identity is going. Fairchild has been spending considerable time thinking through the implications of the work of NT Wright, Piper, Tim Keller, Francis Schaeffer to name some of the prominent authors. What is a message that combines gospel-redemption, kindgom-living, passionate-God-seeking, worldview-altering realities? There is much to unpack, but this is where Kaleo Church wants to proclaim a message, solidify a vision and gather a people to co-labor toward…

Clusty – The future of search?

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 18, 2005 in Church Technology, Culture, Monk Dev | 0 comments

I was introduced to a beta search engine, Clusty that offers a technology to ‘cluster’ search results. If you do a search for ‘Dune’ you can then determine which search cluster best describes what you were seeking. Here are cluster results for ‘Dune’ that allows you to filter the results.

⇨Movie (35)
⇨Dune Buggy (33)
⇨Game (19)
⇨Sand Dune (18)
⇨Science, Fiction (19)
⇨Kevin J. Anderson (10)
‚á®Frank Herbert’s Dune (7)
⇨Dune Chronicles (6)
⇨Beach (7)
⇨Mud (3)

Why Clustering?

The problem of not being able to find what users are looking for has now transformed into one of finding too much information. Today’s search engines burden the user with the task of interpreting hundreds or thousands of documents to glean the information they need.

Categorization of all this data has been the obvious solution to enable users to better deal with this “information overload”. Traditional approaches to categorization involving taxonomies, however, are too expensive, time-consuming and complex for most organizations.

One of the sermon blunders you always are afraid of…

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 17, 2005 in Church, Sermon | 0 comments

I’m sure everyone on the web has heard this blunder but it’s pretty hilarious:

Big Sermon Blooper…

Viral Marketing Example

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 17, 2005 in Church Technology, Monk Dev | 1 comment

Find the Art in Everyday: A good example of Viral Marketing by Bannana Republic. Posted by Reformissionay who found it at Joe Thorn‘s blog…