The Future Church influenced by Technology

Technology is a powerful agent that shapes those who use it in ways that are often unintended. For example, Air Conditioning has been credited with being one of the most culture-altering technologies because people tend to stay inside more- isolated from the community around them. As the Church we can see this unintended...

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Porterbrook Missional Training launching at Kaleo

Jul 21, 10 Porterbrook Missional Training launching at Kaleo

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Featured Articles

The Porterbrook Network is a developing initiative aimed at contributing to a wider church planting movement by equipping individuals and churches to rediscover mission as their DNA through training, and resourcing. Kaleo is launching the program to students in the Southern California area. Porterbrook: San Diego The course is...

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GCM Collective 2010 Conference Schedule in Austin

Jul 15, 10 GCM Collective 2010 Conference Schedule in Austin

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Featured Articles

The GCM Collective will be hosting their first GCM Conference in Austin, TX this October, bringing together church planters, pastors, and leaders to collaborate on the practice of missional communities. This three-day conference will feature main and breakout sessions under the theme of GOSPEL, COMMUNITY and MISSION. You will get to...

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Goodmanson.com Reboot

Jul 12, 10 Goodmanson.com Reboot

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Featured Articles

I’ve had the chance to update the blog with a brand new design, upgrade from WordPress 2.x to 3.0 and move from MySQL 4.x to 5.0. While these add to the reboot, more importantly I plan to write a new set of blog posts exploring a few ideas from a review of Friendship at the Margins, some thoughts on dialogical preaching, GCM...

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Graphic Designer – Position Open

Jul 09, 10 Graphic Designer – Position Open

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Featured Articles, Monk Dev

MonkDev (Monk Development, Inc.) – an industry leading, innovative web development and software as a service company based in San Diego, CA – seeks a graphic/web designer to be the visual lead behind our design projects and brand. MonkDev is one of the largest web developers and fastest growing private companies in San...

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Total Church 2.0 Conference Audio

The Total Church 2.0 Conference: I Will Build My Church audio is up. This was our second Total Church Conference and it took much of what we discussed in the first Total Church conference and tried to move it forward to see what it looks like to live in Jesus community on Jesus mission motivated by the Gospel of Jesus Kingdom. Main...

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Facebook Killed the Church

A co-worker at MonkDev posted this article, How Facebook Killed the Church written by Richard Beck, Associate Professor and experimental psychologist at Abilene Christian University. Here are some brief thoughts on a couple of the points made: Why didn’t Gen X leave the church while the Millennials are leaving in droves? ...

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Is Online Community real Community? Questions about the Virtual Church

Lately this question seems to be popping up more and more so I thought I’d post some initial thoughts. For example, while at the Echo Media Conference I have met several ‘Internet Campus Pastors’. Including a church planter who has planted an online (only) church. In a question I used the term ‘virtual...

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The Truth about Church Websites and Effective Online Outreach

Thank you for all who participated in today’s webinar, nearly 80 people signed-up for it. For those who missed it, here was the description of the webinar: We have all heard about the importance of a church website, the craze of social networking and the need for pastors to blog. But how effective are these strategies...

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