Notes for Evangelism Conference

Random Stuff, need to organize more coherently

Possible Tagline

Evangelism is Dead. Long live Evangelism.

Jeff's Outline for Me

1. Evangelism is Dead. Long live Evangelism.
2. Historical overview of emergent
   • moving to a church that is more relevant to postmodern culture.
3. Deconstructionism
   • What evangelism is not
4. Evangelism as Deliberate (or intentional) Community
   • Relationships over Witness (and rules)
   • Church fulfilling need for daily community
   • congregation as participant developers (open-source / prosumers) vs. listeners & followers

Evangelism in Emerging Culture

• Most importantly, it happens in communities.
• Three options (IMHO):
  1. Join an Existing Community
  2. Create One
  3. Transform an existing one into one

Number 3 is least favorite option and hardest to get right. 2 is good choice, but not easy. 1 is best.

Prosumers of Worship

Old Model:  leaders produce, congregation consumes
New Model:  leaders help congregation to produce AND consume

Interesting Concepts

• Wiki Worship & Soft Security
• Long Tail Church
• Blogging
• Open Source / Transparency
  • Eyeballs & bugs
  • Release Early & Release Often
• Truth, truthiness

Four Principles of "Wikinomics"

(Per Williams & Tapscott)

1. Openness
2. Peering
3. Sharing
4. Acting Globably

All would be completely applicable and beneficial to the church.