Multi-site Exposed 7

As a side note, I have just received word that all of the general sessions have been made available through the ReSurgence.  I encourage you to check them out.
The final session of Leadership Network’s Multi-site Exposed conference in Seattle was a general session with Mark Driscoll.  He’s an outstanding leader who has been focused on [...]

Multi-site Exposed 6

I think I may have mixed up the order of the seesions I attended, but here’s the info anyways…
The next session of Leadership Network’s Multi-site Exposed conference was a breakout session. I attended a session on organizational structure and leadership (I know – you’re really excited to read abou that!) with Jamie Munson and Tim [...]

Great Worship Idea

I brought our teens to Acquire the Fire this weekend and was super amped that David Crowder would be leading worship. They did (as usual) an excellent and inspiring job, though they had to explain the 80’s a bit since much of the crowd barely remembers the 90’s! Here’s a great video of [...]

Stuff Christians Like

I found this excellent new blog that talks about current Christian trends, expecially in evangelicalism. It’s pretty funny because it’s so acurate. Here’s a few that are mentioned:
#11. Thomas Kinkaide
#12. Getting awesome in a certain number of steps.
#16. Greeting the people around you.
#17. Unspoken prayer requests.
#40. Ignoring the Sabbath.
#47. Rooting for secret Christians on American [...]

I mean seriously…

72% of youth ministers in America have goatees, according to a recent study by Christianity Today.

Have you seen Jesus?

This woman did.

 

Multi-site Exposed 5

The next session of Leadership Network’s Multi-site Exposed conference was a general session with the leaders of Christ the King, Dave Browning.  His version of multi-site looks the most like an organic version of a denomination.  With untold number of sites all over the world, CtK is a story of resources home groups and equipping [...]

Multi-site Exposed 4

The fourth session of Leadership Network’s Multi-site Exposed conference was a break-out with multiple options.  I went to one on the story (with a focus on multi-site) of Mars Hill with Mark Driscoll and Jamie Munson.  After a recent restructuring to increase the effectiveness and outflow of ministry at Mars Hill, Munson is the Lead Pastor [...]

Win the War

I struggle with using warfare metaphors for talking about ministry because, here in Albany, many students in the youth ministry have fathers, mothers, and (especially) older brotherswho are fighting in a real war in Iraq and Afghanistan.  There’s a lot of baggage when you bring up the warfare analogy in any setting.
At the same time, the Bible [...]

Multi-site Exposed 3

The third session of Leadership Network’s Multi-Site Exposed Conference was a general session with John Bishop from Living Hope church sharing with us.  Here’s some ideas and thoughts from his sermon and from my head while he was talking:

First off, Living Hope’s worship leader could kick your butt.  They brought their A-team worship band and [...]