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 Tentmaker Group exists for...
read moreI'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 and resolving conflict. We...
read moreSince 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 church."...
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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 history. Gen-X is turning...
read moreI 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." (Meaning: we no longer...
read moreEd 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 the transition years from high...
read moreWe 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, I had a chance to meet...
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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) five values of this...
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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 the Gospel in Our...
read moreThe 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 previously. Training...
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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.
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