evangelism
« Previous EntriesBill Hybels: The only sure way to spiritual maturity is exercising spiritual disciplines
Friday, May 9th, 2008Scores of NYC pastors heard the pastor of America’s “Most Influential Church” confess his surprise to this finding from the Reveal study, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2007 and encompassed 20,000 church goers from dozens of congregations. Here are my notes from one of Bill Hybels’ New York City Leadership Center’s […]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, March 14th, 2008The Storefront: Coming March 24
Crossroads Christian Church launches The Storefront, a community arts center at 6921 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on March 24.
The Storefront is a community of artists who love to practice their art with others while serving the hurting world around them. Artists from all backgrounds and persuasions are welcome. What […]
Faith at Work
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008The New York Post profiled the marketplace ministry movement in two feature articles by Chris Erikson yesterday:
+ “Devoted Workers”
The upshot, say Miller and others, is that New York City’s workplaces are home to much more faith-based activity that many people realize. The media and “cultural coastal elite,” Miller says, “sometimes miss what’s going on […]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Tony Campolo
Evening Plenary CCDA 2006
“I belong to a church that throws birthday parties for prostitutes at 3:30 in the morning.”
Courtesy: UrbanMinistry.org and CCDA
I heard this sermon live and even captured the delivery as a photographer. Enjoy.
The professor we all wish we had
Thursday, February 14th, 2008I first heard Tim Keller preach at a Taste of Agape Week event hosted by the Christian Inter-Fellowship Council at NYU in 1994 or 95. Along with 75 or 100 other students I sat mesmerized by his ability to make complicated ideas accessible to people less smart than he, in an unassuming, self-deprecating style. […]
Live blogging Jeff Boucher
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Touch the World Ministries
Mac Pier on J. Boucher: “The greatest mobilizer of youth missions in the Northeast”
Any metro New York strategy must include New Jersey. They work in NYC, but they live and play in the suburbs.
Devotional:
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, […]
What Brian McLaren wants every pastor in America to do about evangelism
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007First, we as church leaders have to encourage people to count conversations rather than conversions. If we focus on counting conversions, we’ll tend to pressure people into making a decision before they’re ready. Instead, if we encourage people to say that conversations count, then relationships develop. Then when people do make a decision, they’ve counted […]
Blogging NOC07: Closing Panel
Friday, November 9th, 2007Innovation in the Church
Moderator: Ed Stetzer
Amazon.com Widgets
(Curious: Ed Stetzer has two masters and two doctorates but never graduated high school)
Panelists:
+ Kem Meyer, communications director Granger Community Church
+ Dave Gibbons, lead pastor New Song Community Church
+ Tony Morgan, Chief Strategic Officer of New Spring Church
+ Dr. Michael Lindsay, Rice University (Pulitzer nominated)
+ Jonathan […]
Blogging NOC07: Craig Groeschel
Friday, November 9th, 2007Innovation
Craig Groeschel, LifeChurch.tv
Amazon.com Widgets
[These notes are incomplete…]
+ Who is God calling you to reach that no one else is reaching?
+ What is God calling you to do that hasn’t been done before?
+ “We are called by the world a big church, but we have not yet done big things.”
I repent. We’ve worked […]
Blogging NOC07: Leonard Sweet
Friday, November 9th, 2007What God is Up to
Leonard Sweet
Amazon.com Widgets
The metaphor: God is defragging and rebooting the church’s collective PC.
After 2000 years of history, lots of downloads (e.g. reformation); lots of firewalls (schisms, gender, etc); lots of viruses (poverty, racism). God is defragging the computer to reboot the original operating system (Acts […]
Blogging NOC07: Dan Kimball
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Engaging the Cultural Landscape
Dan Kimball
Amazon.com Widgets
+ Jesus intrigues the current pop cultural landscape:
… “Jesus is my homeboy” t-shirts (Pam Anderson, Ashton Kutcher, etc)
… Jesus bobble-head dolls
… During a 2006 concert tour where Madonna performed in front of 1.2 million people, she appeared on-stage on a cross while performing “Live to tell.” […]
Blogging NOC07: Alan Nelson
Thursday, November 8th, 2007What’s Hot (and Not) in Outreach
Alan Nelson, editor-in-chief Rev! magazine
Amazon.com Widgets
GOAL: Examine outreach methods and their relevance in today’s culture. What are the trends and how can they influence outreach strategies over the next five years?
+ A Dozen Dysfunctions & Myths About Outreach and What To Do About Them
1. It’s the […]
Rethinking Revival
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007More from The Fulton Street Revival…
Saturday night, 9/22/07 @ CCC
Bishop Roderick Caesar
Why does God bless us? It’s the fulfillment of the prayers of our forefathers, and promises God made to them. What prayer legacy are leaving future generations?
Dr. A.R. Bernard
There needs to be a correction in leadership in our nation in the church. […]
Marketplace Ministry Panel
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007From the Fulton Street Revival…
Saturday morning, 9/22
Doug Stringer, John Beckett, Dan Stratton
Moderated by Os Hillman
JB: the lesson of Jeremiah Lanphier. Why did God initiate revival through a businessman?
1 – His heart. As he surveyed the poverty and injustice, he was gripped by God’s heart for the city. He asked the right […]
The Role of the City in Spiritual Renewal
Friday, September 21st, 2007Blogging the Fulton Street Revival …
Pastor Tim Keller
Tonight @ Fulton Street Revival opening plenary
I. What is Spiritual Renewal?
How can we identify a spiritual renewal? Every revival is a sovereign work of the Holy Spirit operating through three instruments that have three components and produce 3-4 results.
A. Three instruments
1) The recovery of the […]