Planting Churches, Techie Churches and Flying Churches?
It’s been too long since I’ve downloaded all the fun things I’ve been reading from my corner of the blog world. Here’s the stuff that’s been floating around in my brain the last couple of weeks.
- Of the 10 Faces of Innovation, I’m probably most like The Cross-Pollinator and then The Director. How about you?
- It looks like I’ve convinced "Mr. Church Planter" Gary Lamb to come up to Granger for our brand-new, can’t-miss-this, we’re-bringing-in-the-big-dog-for-this-one WiredChurches.com one-day workshop on church planting.
- It’s pretty cool that David Russell thinks Granger belongs with these other churches on the cutting edge of technology in the church.
- It appears that Kem is back from hiatus.
- Terry, on the other hand, is still listening. I hope he starts typing again soon. I’m having withdrawal symptoms.
- ChurchMarketingSucks.com told the story. Lake Hills Church in Austin, TX pulled it off. It’s absolutely the best series promotion I’ve ever seen. Read about the My Lame Marriage Campaign.
- Mark has some great thoughts on "market creation." He’s right. Most churches do church for the churched.
- Perry nailed it. Read his analogy of what an airline would look like it was operated like a church.
Absolutely man. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed digging into Granger and studying your approach to ministry. I’m a tech geek myself, so perhaps I’m a bit biased, but I’m all about seizing technology to execute the Great Commission. Granger does that and more and you are impacting the Kingdom in great ways.
Tony, I would probably be the “Experimenter” and “Cross-pollinator.” My mind works in the realm of new ideas (inventions if you will) and I definitely identify with the whole “trial and error” concept…
But I’m also on the lookout for existing technology that works well. I spend a great deal of time thinking about how that technology works, what the components are that drive it and how it can be tweaked to be useful in our setting (the church).
Tony, Lake Hills probably got that from Perry. Perry did IHateMyMarriage.com and it was off the hook.
Gary, that wouldn’t surprise me. All things cool typically originate with Perry.
tony