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Thursday, May 12th, 2005“The Crusade’s investment allowed us to create a prototype for how to strategically engage youth culture for Christ that can be implemented outside of the context of this particular event. … Accordingly, we expect that He will use the Get Real message, comic, music, and website, even more effectively than how we first imagined.” For [...]
Response to MK re. ANKOC
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005Note to anyone not named Matt Kruse or Bob Campbell: Feel free to eavesdrop on our conversation about Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian and comment. MK: J, here’s my initial salvo on the book. [Caveats.] Me: You said a mouthful for an initial salvo. Can’t wait for the sequel. MK: What I liked: [...]
The Gospel according to Neo
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005Church planter Matt Kruse started a blog last month. Yesterday’s post was so “postmodern”: “We preached Jesus from a movie with guns and helicopters smashing into buildings, but everyone trusted me enough and is thinking missionally enough to go with it.” His church, Edgeworth, is also launching an innovative, web-based outreach this weekend at a [...]
“When I became a man”
Monday, May 9th, 2005Note to readers: This post starts rambling at the end and needs to be edited. Feel free to peruse it in its unfinished state or come back later for a bit more refinement. ——— Friday I fired off a quick post about needing prayer. Thanks to those who prayed. Today was an interesting day. Long [...]
From our friends at the Coalition re. Billy Graham
Friday, April 22nd, 200562 days until the Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade (June 24-26). 63 days until Get Real concert (June 25). … If 5 million young people in the tri-state area are truly going to have a credible opportunity to experience God’s anointing through Billy Graham, we need to spread the word. Please forward this email [...]
Preview Get Real artwork
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Let’s get viral
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005What do Hush Puppies shoes and declining crime in East New York have in common? More importantly, why should we care? According to Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, they’re both “textbook examples of epidemics in action,” and epidemics are what make “the unexpected become expected, where radical change is more than a possibility …. [...]
Primal prayer
Monday, April 18th, 2005“How are you?” I said, not really expecting a reply. All my neighbor Morris ever did was grunt at me. From “Loving New Yorkers Through Prayer,” by Diana’s uncle, Roger McPhail, in Decision magazine here.
Community Building — the 50 Cent Way
Monday, March 28th, 2005From the annals of “There goes the neighborhood” — Big, bad Fitty (a/k/a 50 Cent) moved into a luxe suburban town and what did he do to endear himself to the neighbors? He threw an all-access, no holds barred party (“like it’s your birthday”) and invited just enough locals to generate some goodwill. Although the [...]
Billy Graham to New York Youth: “Get Real”
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005Answer: 5 million. Question: How many young people under 19 live in metro New York? Answer: A reality check. Question: How are they going to have a credible opportunity to attend the Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade? Yes, the Youth Committee for the Crusade and the local pastors that appointed us need a reality [...]
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