atechagoraphobia - the fear of being without technology
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Culture on 01 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Six years ago I tried to get a word in the dictionary and I want to continue to use it, as I see it as more and more a part of our future. In an always-on culture with technology a part of our every moment the idea of atechagoraphobia (at one point I had termed it Technagoraphobia) is more evident....
5 Online Trends for the Future of Faith
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Culture, Faith and Monk Dev on 09 14th, 2009 | 22 Comments
Thank you for those who attended my Internet Strategy: What does the gospel have to do with Social Media? at CWC/09. In this session we discussed several of the trends that we need to think through with Christian distinction. I appreciated your participation, thanks Tim Challies, Cynthia Ware, Dave...
What is Gospel Intentionality within a Church Community?
Today I received an email from a pastor on Gospel Intentionality. In this email he requested help for his church family to gain a better understanding of what gospel intentionality looks like. What exactly is gospel intentionality?
Steve Timmis posted a series of Tweets on this: Living ordinary life...
Developing a Personal Social Media Strategy: Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter…who am I?
How many social networks and web 2.0 apps can a person use? What do you do with each of these? I read an article recently about a phenomenon where people who had 100’s of friends on Facebook were committing “Facebook Suicide“. Some ‘killed their virtual self’ because...
Accessible Missional Ecclesiology by Michael Goheen
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership and Ministry Design on 10 30th, 2008 | No Comments
Michael Goheen did his dissertation on Newbigin’s Missional Ecclesiology and now he is writing this as a book that is accessible to those who are missional leaders in their community. David Fairchild and I are going with a group to Big Bear to discuss what he has put together so far and it’s...
Total Church Conference Audio
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design, Sermon and Teaching on 10 14th, 2008 | No Comments
The Audio for The Total Church North America Conference 2008 have now been uploaded. Total church is a way of thinking about church and mission in the 21st century which sees the local Christian community as integral to Christian living and Christian mission. The Christian life is ‘total church’...
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Beyond Total Church (Total Church Session 3)
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership and Ministry Design on 09 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Total Church Conference
Speaker: Tim Chester
Session 3: Beyond Total Church
QUOTES:
Planting new churches isn’t enough, we need to create church planting movements.
The model of mission is supernatural. Prayer is the primary missionary activity.
The model of living is martyrdom. From incremental...
BlogWorld & GodblogCon
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Culture, General Technology and Monk Dev on 09 8th, 2008 | No Comments
I’m heading to BlogWorld & the GodblogCon conference later this month. The conference will be dealing with Blogging and emerging internet media technologies.
Anyone else planning on making this conference in Las Vegas?
A Gospel Centered Community (Total Church Session 2)
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Teaching on 09 2nd, 2008 | No Comments
Total Church Conference
Speaker: Steve Timmis
Session 2: A Gospel Community Centered
Total Church Session 2
QUOTES:
When we use the word ‘church’ we are almost always miscommunicating both to the Christian and non-Christian. It seems we’ve lost the battle with this word. Why should...
Update on Total Church Session Recordings
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Ministry Design, Sermon and Teaching on 08 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Our team is working on the 12 videos (6 main sessions and 6 main breakouts) and 10 audio sessions (breakouts) from the Total Church Conference. In the next few days I should be posting the first two main sessions for people to enjoy.
The Hype of Social Networking and the Church
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Technology, Culture, Ekklesia, General Technology and Monk Dev on 08 4th, 2008 | 13 Comments
Lately I’m running across a number of companies that are building social networking sites targeted to the church market. A number that have set their sights at being the ‘church Facebook’. Yet, most of what is called ’social networking’ is meaningless. They often offer...
Total Church Schedule, Sessions & Breakouts
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Teaching on 07 30th, 2008 | 8 Comments
The conference is almost sold out. Here is the schedule for the Total Church Conference next month:
Tuesday, August 12th
Main Session #1: A Community-centered Gospel – Steve Timmis
The gospel is about a King who died to rescue a people who would reveal his character by their shared lives. In keeping...
Shapevine Interview: Missional Communities, Total Church, Triperspectivalism & Renovo
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, General Technology, Leadership, Sermon and Triperspectivalism on 06 23rd, 2008 | 3 Comments
One last reminder prior to tomorrow for you to join us on Shapevine June 24 at 4 PM EST (1pm PST) for an interview on Missional Communities, Total Church, Triperspectivalism & the Renovo Network.
There will be a time to ask questions and interact with David & I regarding what we've...
Renovo Network
Almost a year ago I posted an intro to the Renovo Network concept, entitled: Transforming Cities - The Church beyond the Spiritual Box. Since this post we've incorporated the Renovo Group, the Tentmaker Group and Imagine City Group. We continue to work on the the organization but...
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.
