Acts 29 Church Bootcamp in San Diego

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jun 16, 2006 in Church, Teaching | 2 comments

Kaleo Church will be the host of our first bootcamp here in San Diego on August 29-31. Speakers will include:

• Scott Thomas, Director of Acts 29 as well as 3 or 4 other A29 church planters.
• Dick Kaufmann who came from Redeemer in NY and started Harbor Presbyterian, a church planting movement here in San Diego.
• Doug Swagerty from Harbor Presbyterian will come and speak on multi-site church planting
• David Fairchild, Matt Ortiz, Drew Goodmanson (I’ll be talking about systems, technology and other practical ways to impact a city and gather people) and other local Acts 29 church planters. [I've also asked a few other technically savvy web people to come and teach/train people.]

A full list of speakers and their topics will be posted soon.

The sporg registration will be up and running soon, and I’ll post it on here as well as on the A29 site so you can register. This is not limited to the Southwest if you are looking to attend and even be assessed as a potential planter. If you are already on mission, it might be good to come and get to know us anyway, as well as be fed by the main sessions.

You can get more information now and the speakers are up too…

Multiperspectivalism Continues

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jun 12, 2006 in Church, Triperspectivalism | 0 comments

Over the last several months, I have had several posts regarding multiperspectivalism (or triperspectivalism) but few people had comments to these posts. Yet, when I’ve had conversations with people it has been quite helpful to myself and others as a perspective for why/how we do ministry.

David Fairchild continues this thinking with the first in a three part series on multperspectivalism: Ministry through the lens of Multiperspectival Epistemology

Traits of a Catalytic Church Planter

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jun 3, 2006 in Church, Church Planting | 0 comments

Check out David Fairchild's 30 Traits of a Catalytic Church Planter. Here are the top 10 he lists (I don't know if he ordered these in any way).

1- Profound love for Christ.
2- Knows much about Christ theologically and experientially.
3- Is greatly motivated by the things Christ is passionate about and is able to articulate Christ’s passion to his people.
4- Understands and can articulate the multi-faceted nature of the gospel. How what Christ did upon a Roman Cross 2,000 years ago changes everything.
5- Is able to apply the gospel in a variety of settings- from preaching in every page of scripture, to counseling the broken and lost.
6- Is driven by an awareness that they are caught up in a greater story. Has an awareness of of their personal identity having significance because it is consumed into God’s greater story.
7- This then would mean that the persons biblical theology is as strong as, if not stronger, than their systematic theology.
8- A passionate preacher who never preaches an unfelt cross.
9- A good communicator to those who are not Christians.
10- An evangelist with a theological sense of urgency in what he does and says. Someone that always is aware that this sermon may be the last one he preaches before he dies, or the last one he preaches before Christ returns.

Breaking the Missional Code

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jun 3, 2006 in Church, Culture | 0 comments

I’ve been reading Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community by Ed Stetzer & David Putnam. What has impressed me about Ed (I don’t know David but I have had the chance to meet Ed a few times) is his loose grasp on the methods and his (and the books) emphasis on the principles. So whether you are an ‘emerging church’, modern church, traditional church, historical church, mega church, house church or anything in between, this book is a valuable read to assess the missional nature of your own community and begin to look at your context as a place of mission.

Breaking the Missional Code isn’t a secret ‘grow a big church through techniques’ but a thorough and practical look at people & places, who through loving people and faithfully preaching the gospel, have had a chance to see lives changed. Yet, it does offer looks at ways churches are using new methods to reach a new generation of people as well as best practices of leaders who have succeeded in ‘breaking the code’.

I’d encourage you to read Joe Thorn’s review of Breaking the Missional Code (and he links to a few other reviews as well).

Deacon Training & Development

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jun 2, 2006 in Church, Triperspectivalism | 2 comments

I’ve had a couple people ask what we do for Deacon Development, so I thought I’d post it for anyone to use. First, we believe that the Deacon (or elder) process is just a confirmation of what God has already done. Meaning our Deacons are already active in serving and running ministries prior to our beginning the process. I meet with a group of these servant leaders on a monthly basis and try to meet with them one-on-one throughout the month. In addition to this time, here is what we do:

1. I meet with Deacon candidates and we go through The New Testament Deacon: The Church’s Minister of Mercy with the accompanying The New Testament Deacon (Study Guide).

2. All Deacon candidates read Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road by Tim Keller.

Next, depending on the person (whether their strengths/weaknesses are Prophet, Priest or King) I recommend or work with diff’t aspects of who they are.

The above books (Ministers of Mercy & The New Testament Deacon provide a theological framework for the role of the Deacon. This means they will grow in their ‘head knowledge’ (Prophet) of the why we are called to serve, bring mercy, care for the poor, social justice and other causes. If a person is a Priest/King these books should provide a framework to accompany their love for people and ability to get things done.

If they are a strong Prophet/King I recommend books like The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller or Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire : What Happens When God’s Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People. These books are primarily aimed at working on the persons heart.

If they are a strong Prophet/Priest I work with them on systems and how to exercise dominion, books like The E-Myth, Visioneering : God’s Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal Vision and Cawley just recommended Getting Things Done which I’m about to read. These books are primarily trying to help the candidate plan their way out of a paper bag. This link will take you to resources I suggest if they need to grow in areas of becoming church leaders who can ‘take a hill’.