Archive for March, 2007
April’s Next Wave is the 100th! Eight years of emerging church goodness… I’m looking to do a combination best-of/Where are we now? edition… So- If you have some articles/thoughts on where the emerging church is now, where it’s going, etc….
sanjaya (verb) - to take the spot of a more deserving or more talented competitor. A lazy coworker sanjayaed my promotion…
Alan Hirsch, who (along with Michael Frost) in the amazing Shaping of Things to Come, further defines the “missional vs. attractional” question here. “I think the use of the term attractional is a tad ambiguous, but because I am partly…
I’m working on some thoughts on where we’re at as a community right now… forgive the lack of blog posting here- I’m having a block. I don’t like it, but I haven’t yet sussed out all the reasons for it,…
From the Slow Leadership Blog. A story of a “problematic” employee and her boss culminates here… In this tragi-comedy of errors and misunderstandings, the boss feels fully justified in re-classifying Sara’s performance downwards, based on his expectations of what (in…
I came across this article this evening and it got me to thinking about church growth and some of the factors that are most commonly associated with it. Read the article, then come back because I have some thoughts on…
This week the battle raged between good and evil. Sheer determination was the only thing getting me through this one, and I have to say I was not able to come out unscathed. But if you think that’s bad, you…
I’m selling out! That’s right! Not becoming a wholly owned subsidiary, but… I got an email this morning: “Hi Bob, I’m interested in buying an ad on http://evergreenlife.org/2005/08/next-emergent-facial-hair-style.html. I can pay $30. The ad is for a company that sells…