I love TED talks, but as anyone knows there are just too many of them to get through. That is why I was thrilled with this Christianity Today article on the five best TED talks for ministry leaders.
The one I’ve posted below by Seth Godin is probably my favorite so far. Excellent discussion on things that are “broken”, meaning that they don’t work well or like they should.
There are TONS of implications for church, especially the “I’m Not A Fish” principle. So much church stuff is designed for non-members by people who haven’t been non-members in a very, very long time.
Watch the video. You’ll like it.
The graph above demonstrates the proposal made by Blake and Mouton regarding the concern for people vs. the concern for production. In their original publication, they added grid lines for both axes numbering 1 through 9. This was to facilitate the understanding that there were various places on the Managerial Grid that people could fall….
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Production and Church Do those two terms sound like the don’t go together well? What is it about the idea of “church” that makes us uncomfortable with terms like “revenue”, “marketing”, or “production”? I’ve felt the twinge that comes from the apparent incompatibility of those concepts, but the truth of the matter is that those…
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Having talked a little about caring and concern, I want to start discussing care and concern as they appear in church priorities and decision making. In their 1964 worked entitled The Managerial Grid, Robert Blake and Jane Srygley Mouton identified two constants in any organization: purpose and people. These two constants form the axes of the…
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Making a rather rough transition from my previous post, I want to take a bit to talk about caring. When we say the phrase “I don’t care”, what we are really saying is “I’m not concerned about that.” The word ‘care’ implies having an interest in providing for a person or thing the things that…
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After high school I was looking for a way to earn money for college and support a young family. I found both of these options in the U.S. Army. I served for three years as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare Specialist. The recruiting material made it sound like a laboratory job… but it was…
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I’m a big fan of TED. They do some really cool talks on a wide variety of topics. This one interests me because of the implications both for technology but also for church and ministry. It is common practice in the conservative Christian community to surround ourselves with people who think like us, both spiritually,…
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Last night I was helping Child2 with some algebra homework. I got a 33% in algebra in high school. I’ve been very open with my kids about this fact, about the fact that I’m not good at math, and about the fact that they have an aunt who is a mathematician that has offered to…
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A couple of years ago we went through the process of selecting new shepherds. The ensuing months were filled with the normal excitement and growth pains that come from changing church leadership. In that process, we all sat around and came up with a list of leadership principles for Bristol Road Church of Christ. These…
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After six parts to the ‘because the cross was made of dogwood’ series I’ve racked up quite a few questions about what the whole dogwood thing has to do with evangelism. Well, today you find out. As many of you know, I have a company that I co-operate with fellow minister Randy Wray that we…
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