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...
OGRE - Organization of Gospel-Centered Reformed Entrepreneurs
I’ve been looking at joining The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). I have had several friends who have or currently are a part of this and speak highly of it. A few of the benefits they suggest include:
I need to find other people like me; those who understand what it’s like to own...
Creating a Philosophy of Ministry
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Ministry Design, Sermon and Teaching on 12 4th, 2008 | 7 Comments
Tim Cain is part of the Kaleo Movement. This last year he and his wife journeyed to Bethlehem Baptist to be the church planting intern at John Piper’s church. While he was there he has had the opportunity to plan a church plant and lay out what that will look like when he returns to San Diego....
Cobblestone Community Network
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Church Technology, Faith, General Technology, Ministry Design and Monk Dev on 10 31st, 2008 | 8 Comments
The secret is being let out….Cobblestone Community Network teaser site is now up.
Cobblestone is more than a social networking site; Cobblestone is designed to engage users in behaviors that help them be the church.
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’...
Kaleo One Year Later: Why I haven’t been posting as often
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Triperspectivalism on 09 17th, 2008 | 9 Comments
Over the year or so I have posted numerous entries regarding our shift to a decentralized way of being the church. As we began to go through this shift, I often posted what we were discussing and thinking Kaleo Church would begin to look like. You may have noticed in the last 9 months my posts decreased....
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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...
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...
A Community Centered Gospel (Total Church Session 1)
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Teaching on 08 29th, 2008 | 6 Comments
Total Church Conference
Speaker: Steve Timmis
Session 1: A Community Centered Gospel
NOTES:
Church planters don’t need a new shtick or new things. What we need is the gospel.
What is the Gospel? (Col. 1:3-6) The gospel is the word of truth that works. What does it do? It is constantly...
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.
Total Church Conference - 5 Spots Left
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Leadership and Ministry Design on 08 4th, 2008 | 5 Comments
There are only 5 spots left until the Total Church Conference is sold out. Register now if you plan on attending.
8/7 Update: CONFERENCE SOLD-OUT
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.
