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I just finished Seth Godin’s Tribes. Seth’s always great with explaining the obvious, but it’s the obvious we’re often most oblivious to.
If you’re interested in leadership, creating movements, and transformation… go get it if you haven’t had a chance.
You can see his tribes presentation below with notes.
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(That’s stellar giving me a fist bump every time she swings forward)
My daughter learns something new every single day, why is it that so many of us have stopped doing that?
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I was at the new suburbia conference this past week. I’m not sure how true the conference was of its title, it was mostly about Christian community development in an urban setting, gentrification of city slums, and indigenous leadership empowerment.
There was some good material in there. However, I felt some of us gathered had been experiencing some type of suburban inferiority complex. I know the urban setting is where the needs are often greatest, not to mention hip, cool, and trendy, but suburbia has it’s place too.
What if we took global urbanization seriously, and those of us in the suburbs saw our communities as future urban centers of the world? What if the church began investing and building infrastructure into the suburbs and were on the leading edge of every urban tipping point?
* Photo by Ann Douglas
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I’ve been setting course to church plant after I graduate for a number of years. For the longest time I’ve been contemplating doing something different, better, more innovative, than church as usual.
At the end of the day though, I find many of my ideas haven’t been all that radical.
Just because our church might be more creative, more current, more engaging, work harder, be more balanced, be more missional, more tech-savvy, more relational, and on and on… I wonder if these changes would still just be incremental?
It scares me to think that I might just end up producing more of the same.
The word radical comes from the word root or origins. When I look at the church in the new testament or the history of the early church, that was radical.
What does a radical church look like in today’s context?
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