Mark Batterson, the senior pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC, spoke this morning at the MinistryCOM gathering in Phoenix. Here are some of his thoughts:

  • Mark talked about the difference between being prescriptive and being descriptive. We can all be descriptive, because we each have a unique story.
  • "If it’s worth preaching, it’s worth podcasting."
  • "There are ways of doing church that no one has thought of yet… The church is content doing church the way it’s always been done."
  • "The message is sacred. The medium is not."
  • Our job as leaders is not to get people to embrace technology. People don’t have any problem embracing technology. Our job is to help people think about technology. We need to show people how to redeem it and use it for God’s purposes.
  • Mark recommends the book Contextual Intelligence.
  • I Chronicles 12:32 "understood the times" — "Most pastors get A’s or B’s in biblical exegesis, but they get C’s or D’s in cultural exegesis."
  • Core value at NCC = "Irrelevance is irreverence."
  • "Great leaders don’t change the way we do things–they change the way we think."
  • ZoneGathering.com = NCC’s small group training blog
  • NCC’s goal is not to get people to visit one of their three locations. The goal is to get people to visit their web sites, and then it’s very likely that people will visit their services.

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