Let the People Speak

I like Twitter. Perhaps you like it as well. And if you watch this video, you'll see that most of what you like about it was invented by you, the user. There's some wisdom in there to be sought out.

Soda

Our Boomerang series is coming up. It's all about refreshment. I'm excited to see what comes of it. Here's a great commercial to get us thinking. If a soda can do this, what could the church do?

Swagger

I love this video. It pretty much embodies our lives.

Tough Paradox

We're thinking a lot about multi-site campuses around here. It's a tough paradox of "how to's." Here's some bullets I pulled from Kem Meyer's blog.

• The goal is scalability, but scalability is not the same thing as duplication.
• Don’t focus on mirroring. Focus on the mission.
• Community is a shared mission, expression is not.
• Value is communicated different ways to different people.
• Our church, and the community developed around it, is not contained in one box and shipped for use in multiple locations. We’re evolving our DNA to live multi-site as a ministry, not as an export.

It's helpful to remind ourselves that we're not just developing a franchise. It's about producing disciples, not reproducing our brand.

Really Great Thought

The Hornet

Yesterday I met with a couple buddies at the local Mexican Restaurant. We do it every Thursday and discuss a passage from scripture. This week was Deuteronomy 7.

At one point Moses is talking about how we better take God seriously. He's going on and on about how the Israelites better not screw things up and those people that worship other gods have it coming to them. Then he stops, pauses, and says, "And to top it off, the Hornet."

He goes on to explain the if anyone doesn't listen, the Hornet's going to come and wipe them out anyway.

Yikes! I love when scripture gets really blatant. This helps to realize that God is serious. I don't know exactly what the Hornet it. But I certainly don't want it chasing after me to top things off.

Pros and Cons

We spent some time as a team talking through the pros and cons of everyone running with their own blogs. Rather than flush all that out right here, I wanted to share some of the thoughts on what the ideal situation would be like in a perfect blogging world.

• Everything could easily be imported from the public blogs to southlandchristian.org.
• We could support all the design on everyone's blog.
• We could build a blogazine fpormat that could be virtually "thumbed" through for current and pertinent info.
• They would visually represent the life of our church.
• Everyone instinctively wrote in a way that caused movement in our church. (Remember, the whole reason our team exists is to cause movement.)

There was a few more technical things that were ideal, as well, but I'll spare you the gory details. We're working feverishly at how we're going to make all this happen. We think we might be on to something with the freedom that a blog offers.