Goodmanson.com – 500th Post

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 3, 2006 in Church, Church Planting, Church Technology, Culture, Ekklesia, General Technology, Leadership, Monk Dev, Sermon, Sheep&Goats, Teaching | 3 comments

Welcome to Goodmanson.com .  If you are new(er) here, I began this blog in July of 2004 and today I've posted for the 500th time.  I got out my calculator and discovered that over these 825 days, I've made a post every 1.65 days.  Over the years I've posted a lot on church planting, technology, churches, leadership and culture.  Here are some posts I'd recommend if you haven't been here the whole time.

CHURCH PLANTING 

Five Trends for the Future of Church Planting 26Aug06

The State of the American Church – Why Church Planting is Critical to the Future of American Christianity 16May06

CHURCH

A Partnership of Externally Focused Churches 11Aug06

Emerging From Church De-Construction to Church Kingdom Building 19Sep05

Fun with Angry, Yelling, Legalistic Christians who Know Everything 03Apr05

Is the Twelve Tribes a Cult? 02Nov05 (From my year-plus stint as a weekly Sheep & Goat column for the San Diego Reader)

LEADERSHIP

Preaching the Gospel to Yourself 26Oct06

Deacon Training & Development 02Jun06

Triperspectival Ministry Assessment 12Oct06

The Dangers of Confession while in the Pulpit 20Oct06

TECHNOLOGY

Why God is more glorified by Web 2.0 09Oct06

Technology and the Mission: Conference Session 25Sep06

List of Church Technology & Website Blogs & Resources 27Sep06

CULTURE

My own ‘Sin City’ 18Apr05

The role of the Christian artist in the secular world 20Aug04

FAMILY

New Son Roman! 30Jan06

Gideon Turns 2 Years Old 26Mar05

Church Marketing Sucks

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 2, 2006 in Church | 0 comments

I hope you have already heard of Church Marketing Sucks. Over the last two weeks, I've had the chance to sit down with the Church Marketing Sucks guys (Brad & Kevin) a couple times. Brad (founder) and Kevin (chief blogger) have a passion for helping the church communicate 'the greatest story ever told' (as Brad says it).  It's been great seeing their kingdom-minded work with the goal of benefiting the church (they have funded this thing w/o seeking revenue streams).  Anyway, be on the look out because you are going to see a lot of cool things from the Center For Church Communication (parent non-profit of Church Marketing Sucks).  In the meantime, go check out:

Church Marketing Lab – We want to help churches do better marketing, but we don't know everything. So rather than pretend we do, we're offering the Church Marketing Lab, a chance to share your church communications experiments with your peers and offer feedback to others.  Over 500 people have joined already uploading tons of marketing ideas for churches.

Or go check out Brad's company Personality, a cause marketing agency (GREAT WEBSITE DESIGN) and Kevin's day gig at Monkey Outta Nowhere. 

the Neighborhood

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 2, 2006 in Church | 3 comments

Our home was the 'crack house' in the neigbhorhood.  It was in 2003 we moved in to our home after it went through probate.  The neighborhood was full of children, all the streets ended in cul-de-sac so often the kids would be running around outside, playing football and other games.  I imediately joined in.  It's great getting to know these kids (mostly boys 10-12).  We've played hundreds of games out in the front streets over these years.  My wife has tutored many of them at our house.  We have a large birch tree in our front yard that the kids would come and sit under.  Many of the boys don't have fathers, so they ask me questions as they grow up. They'd also ask me questions about God and other religions, I even got to explain triperspectival presuppositional apologetics.

One day everything changed.  One of the boys asked me more about sin, God and Jesus.  I went over the gospel with him, as I had before, but this time he began to cry.  He said he wanted to be forgiven of his sins, that he knew he needed Jesus as his savior.  He asked how he could become a Christian.  I explained and he gave his life to Jesus.  He was so excited he started telling the other kids.  A month later, one of the oldest boys came to me and said he wanted to become a Christian too.   Next several boys asked if I'd lead a Bible Study.  So off we went, first we make dinner and then we go through Old Testament stories (from a Gospel/Redemptive Historical perspective).  Creation, Noah's Ark, Babel, Abraham…it's been great.  It's great teaching these kids, some of whom had never heard about Jesus or ever been to church and seeing their excitement.  But mostly, it's been amazing to see the gospel change a neighborhood.