Notes for Evangelism Conference

Evangelism is Dead. Long live Evangelism.

Things I Promised I'd Talk About

• Modern Church vs. Post-modern Church (Post-Modern? WTF???)
• Recent Cultural Trends and Ideas (My Fave, See Below)
• Resources for Evangelism in Emerging Culture (Books, Articles, Cohorts)
  • Emerging Flavored Presbyterians (Presbymergent)

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. Deconstruction (critical to emergence)
   • What evangelism has been
   • What evangelism should not be
4. Evangelism as Deliberate (or intentional) Community
   • Relationships vs. Rules
   • Conversation vs. Conversion
   • Church fulfilling need for daily community
   • Congregation as participant developers vs. listeners & followers

Evangelism in Emerging Culture

• It's all about community (and conversation)
• Three options (IMHO):
  1. Join an Existing Community (best)
  2. Create One (good but hard)
  3. Transform an existing one into one (hardest, possibly inauthentic)
• My Experiences Evangelizing and Being Evangelized
  1. Frisco Community Theatre
  2. NCD Conference 2006
  3. Conversations with Chris

Technological Concepts and Trends

• Web 2.0 & Church 2.0
• Long Tail Church
• Open Source Movement
  • Transparency
  • Eyeballs & bugs
  • Release Early & Release Often
• Wikinomics
  • Wiki Worship & Soft Security
  • Dynamic Truth in Tension
  • Consumers of Worship vs. Prosumers of Worship
  • Four Principles of "Wikinomics"
    1. Openness
    2. Peering
    3. Sharing
    4. Acting Globally

Other Random Soapboxes (Ask With Caution)

• Truth, Truthiness, and Absolute Truth
• Presbyterians Are Big Time Geeks.
• Why Folk Music and Hymns are Emergent. And Cool.
• ASCAP Sucks. So does Copyright.
• Most Christian Education is Neither Christian Nor Education
• Emerging Church Dress Code (why do they all look alike?)

Don't Just Sit There

• Presbymergent (blog, wiki, survey, parties)
• E.vangelize.us (what do you want it to be?)