The Tentmaker Group Launches...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Church Technology and Culture on 07 31st, 2007 | 3 Comments
The Tentmaker Group website has launched! If you know people looking to fund a church plant transition, pastors who seek supplemental income or people interested in roles that will re-invest money into church planting and ministering to people in their city, this is one avenue. From the site:
The...
Total Church: Is the American Church Rea...
I've been reading Total Church, a remarkable book that looks at a 'radical reshaping around gospel and community'. In it they talk about the community formed at The Crowded House, where:
We are committed to caring for one another, discipling one another, investing in relationships...
The Church in a Post-Christian World...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture and Ministry Design on 07 27th, 2007 | 4 Comments
Since I did my session on Post-Christian World, here are a few add'l external links from the last day in the blogosphere that relate:
What do our church buildings witness to? "Our church buildings witness to the immobility, inflexibility, lack of fellowship, pride and class divisions in today's...
Communication in Our Post-Christian Worl...
Here is the session I did at GCA on Communication in Our Post-Christian World (86-page PDF). There is a lot of stuff the pdf won't explain but it will provide a general idea of the conversation. For example,
We are in the middle of one of the greatest worldview transitions in recent...
GCA Church Planting Conference - Day 2...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith and Ministry Design on 07 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment
I attended Emerging 1 & 2 and Evangelism 1 & 2 today. Emerging Session 2 was led by Steve Treichler from Hope Community. Some quotes:
"We are in the middle of the greatest worldview shift in 200 years and evangelicals have largely sheltered themselves from this transition." ...
EdStetzer.com...
Ed Stetzer promises to blog regularly. He just launched EdStetzer.com. Here's the goal of the blog:
This blog will be a mixture of several things. We will look at research and discuss it here. In just a couple of weeks we will release some groundbreaking research on the dropout rate for...
GCA Church Planting Conference - Day 1...
We completed day 1 of the GCA Church Planting conference. John Piper did a session encouraging the church planters and reminding them to be weary of church planting experts/formula's it is the Holy Spirit the preaching of the gospel. The first sessions took place as well. Afterwards,...
Communication in Our Post-Christian Worl...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting and Ministry Design on 07 20th, 2007 | 4 Comments
I'm putting the finishing touches on my GCA presentation, Communication in Our Post-Christian World:
The culture is changing and it requires new methods of communication. This session will help you learn how to effectively minister in a post-Christian context. Come learn the 1)...
Church Planting, the Church & Missi...
This week has been extremely crazy, as the Monk team is in town planning the future of Ekklesia 360 Church CMS. We now have over 750 churches and ministries using our system and growing rapidly! Secondly, I am wrapping up my two sessions for the GCA Conference on Message and Media: Communicating...
Tentmaker Group - Church Planting Fundin...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting and Church Technology on 07 12th, 2007 | 8 Comments
The Tentmaker Group is launching. On August 13th & 14th a group from the Tentmakers will travel to Las Vegas to observe and meet with one of the companies to participate. This company has a role that fits well with the need for church planters to fund a transition into ministry as described...
Voices of the Virtual World: Participati...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Culture, Faith and General Technology on 07 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment
A new book is coming out entitled, Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution. This book is a collection of over 40 writers, many well known bloggers, authors, missional thinkers and pastors. (I wrote a chapter: Will the Internet create a new Reformation?) ...
The Gospel Awakening...
Is the American church in the middle of a transformation? Over the last couple years, there are an increasing number of pastors who are rethinking church and Christianity. Many of these shifts were recently expressed by The Gospel Coalition. These three shifts will radically change...
Post-Christian America & the Urgenc...
A while back I recall seeing the Did You Know? Shift Happens video and wanted to create one for church planting and the state of the church in America. So here it is, just in time for us to celebrate July 4th Americans! (I've compiled statistics from a variety of sources such as Planting Missional...
The Dangers of Triperspectivalism...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Ministry Design and Triperspectivalism on 07 3rd, 2007 | 16 Comments
As more churches & leaders begin to use triperspectivalism as a philosophy of ministry, there are a few dangers I wanted to warn against (these came up in an elder meeting at Kaleo):
Personality Test - One of the dangers of triperspectivalism is using it as a personality test. eg. "Oh,...
Missional - Missio Dei, Missionary or Mi...
At the Acts 29 conference Ed Stetzer spoke on the history of the word missional which traces it's origins from three streams of thoughts: missio dei, missionary & mission. He presents why we may all use the same word, yet it means radically different things for emerging churches, evangelical...
Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company. Monk created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew often speaks at conferences and has written for several national publications about how churches/ministries can use the Internet. Goodmanson.com is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs. Kaleo Church is a missional community, multi-site church planting movement in San Diego, CA. More about Drew Goodmanson.
