Notes for Evangelism Conference

Possible Tagline

Evangelism is Dead. Long live Evangelism.

Things I Promised I'd Talk About

• Modern Church vs. Post-modern Church (WTF is "Post-Modern"???)
• Recent Cultural Trends and Ideas (My Favorite, See Below)
• Resources for Evangelism in Emerging Culture
• 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. Deconstructionism
   • What evangelism is not
4. Evangelism as Deliberate (or intentional) Community
   • Relationships vs. 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 I Like to Talk About

• Web 2.0 & Church 2.0
  • Wiki Worship & Soft Security
  • Long Tail Church
  • Open Source / Transparency
    • Eyeballs & bugs
    • Release Early & Release Often
• Truth
  • Absolute Truth (Pluto?)
  • Truthiness: Greek vs. Jewish

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.