Engaged & Unified Body
I’m up to the fourth value of Friendship Church this week: Engaged & Unified Body. This is a big one for any organization, but even more so for a local church. Do we constantly have to shout “Pay attention!” or … Continue reading →
Set List Sunday 1.22.12
Here’s what we sang this morning at Friendship Church as we continued our series, “Guardrails”:
The Glory of Our King (Matt Redman)At Your Name (Phil Wickham)In Christ Alone (Matt Papa’s version)Give Me Faith (Elevation Worship)…
4D: Develop
The last step in the 4D Creative Process is Develop. This is where the rubber meets the road. We have dreamed, defined, & designed the idea, now it’s time to execute. What good is an idea that never is birthed … Continue reading →
4D: Design
Part 3 of the 4D Creative Process is DESIGN. This is where we really get to let the juices flow. What will it look like? Who needs to be involved? In this stage, we pull all the pieces together to … Continue reading →
10 Questions Unchurched People Aren’t Asking – Perry Noble
One of my new favorite guys, both as a speaker, pastor, and blogger, is Perry Noble. A while ago Perry posted 10 Questions that churches tend to answer even though no one is asking. Perry doesn’t suggest that these aren’t important questions, just that no unsaved, lost person is asking them. A lost person cares [...]
4D: Define
Click here to read part 1 of the 4D Creative Process. The second part of the creative process is DEFINE. Once we have the idea we sharpen it to make certain it fits the vision and the message we are … Continue reading →
Unexpected, but not Unprepared
I woke up this morning to high winds, rain, and thunder…in the middle of January in Indiana! Now that is unexpected. I have a friend who up until just recently was the main trainer for an entire State Police force, who visited us just recently. We had a couple of different long conversations and one [...]
4D: Dream
This week I’ll be blogging about my adaption of another church‘s creative process called the “4D Creative Process”. The four D’s are: Dream Define Design Develop First up: Dream. Although this is the smallest step, the idea is the spark … Continue reading →
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus…My Thoughts
Recently a “spoken word poet” Jefferson Bethke posted a compelling, and very well produced video talking about religion and Jesus. Here is his introduction to the video and the video itself. Below I share a few thoughts: A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received [...]
Intentional Discipleship
In this week, part 3 of walking through he values of Friendship Church, it’s all about intentional discipleship. Now, I’ve never heard of accidental discipleship but I know from experience there is discipleship negligence. You’ve seen it before, someone becomes … Continue reading →
