I bet that right now, there are many proven executives and marketplace leaders across the body of Christ who could gain a large new media audience in short order. Could pastors do more to encourage them to do this? I wonder if just a nudge in the right direction wouldn’t make a big difference.
From my [...]
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In my first and second posts on new media presence, I was responding to Jacob Vanhorn’s questions at a pretty basic level. Now I’d like to focus the idea of leadership training, which he called out specifically.
I advocate a strong emphasis on training not only pastors, but also members who are called to the marketplace. [...]
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We are continuing our exploration of pastor Jacob Vanhorn’s great questions on new media and the idea of “presence.” I’d like to isolate one-way vs. two-way communication approaches to gain presence. New media is all about two-way, though a remnant of one-way still holds sway in many circles, especially those where marketing budgets are [...]
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Following my essay on New Media and the Christian Message, pastor Jacob Vanhorn asked me:
How do you recommend balancing the very real value of ‘presence’ with the distance that is involved in much of new media? First from a theological idea of ‘presence’ and then implementation.
As a pastor on the street, I am asking:
What impact [...]
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In his Wonder Land column (WSJ.com - subscription required), the insightful Dan Henninger concisely, and I believe accurately, sets the stage for the drama of the upcoming election:
My friends, Sen. Obama is very eloquent, but he is also going to be very, very expensive. It may turn out that an angry, inflation-pressed America just wants [...]
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The comments by some dear friends (aka Randy, Paula, and Simon) on this post on American Idol are important and timely, and I am deeply grateful for them. They remind me the importance of setting some context for a post like that, especially since I am implicitly, if not explicitly, endorsing the show, even while [...]
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Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, tagged american idol, christian, david archuleta, david cook, onerepublic, rocky, simon cowell on May 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Despite the fluff and immodesty of the American Idol finale shows, I found them thrilling and, if you don’t mind, even faith-building (Sorry, Kerrin!) . It’s for the same reason Rocky is my favorite movie and movie character of all time. It’s why my boys of 5 and 2 are already hearing repeatedly from Dad [...]
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…when more and more people realize what we can do with all our new media tools and the related data we have.
Read and reflect on this post by Neil Raden at The Intelligent Enterprise Blog: The Search Engine Miracle is Wearing Thin.
“I’ve gotten over my infatuation with the Web. Now I want it to solve [...]
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This weekend I had some time to reflect on the results of the Evangelical Outpost essay contest. Having read the other winning essays, it is no small honor to be in such company. As you read, note the common themes across each writer’s perspectives. Let that remind you of the unity-in-diversity that should characterize effective [...]
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One example of the liberty of Christ working in our conscience is the liberty of friends to wrestle through an issue or question together. This can and must be done in humility, or else God must oppose us (1 Peter 5:5). In other words, liberty requires humility.
For example, my friend AY at Every Square Inch [...]
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