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*New Model:  leaders help congregation to produce AND consume
*New Model:  leaders help congregation to produce AND consume


==Concepts and Trends I Like to Talk About==
==Technological Concepts and Trends==
*Web 2.0 & Church 2.0
*Web 2.0 & Church 2.0
*Long Tail Church
*Open Source / Transparency
**Eyeballs & bugs
**Release Early & Release Often
*Wikinomics
**Wiki Worship & Soft Security
**Wiki Worship & Soft Security
**Long Tail Church
***Consumerism:  leaders produce, congregation consumes
**Open Source / Transparency
***Prosumerism:  leaders help congregation to produce AND consume
***Eyeballs & bugs
**Four Principles of "Wikinomics"
***Release Early & Release Often
**#Openness
*Truth
**#Peering
**Absolute Truth (Pluto?)
**#Sharing
**Truthiness:  Greek vs. Jewish.
**#Acting Globally
*Four Principles of "Wikinomics" (Per Williams & Tapscott)
*#Openness
*#Peering
*#Sharing
*#Acting Globally


==Random Soapboxes (Ask With Caution)==
==Other Random Soapboxes (Ask With Caution)==
*Truth, Truthiness, and Absolute Truth
*Presbyterians Are Big Time Geeks.
*Presbyterians Are Big Time Geeks.
*Why Folk Music and Hymns are Emergent.  And Cool.
*Why Folk Music and Hymns are Emergent.  And Cool.

Revision as of 21:05, 26 August 2007

Possible Tagline

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 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 (critical to emergence)
    • 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

  • It's all about community.
    • So how do I...?
  • 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)

Prosumers of Worship

  • Old Model: leaders produce, congregation consumes
  • New Model: leaders help congregation to produce AND consume
  • Web 2.0 & Church 2.0
  • Long Tail Church
  • Open Source / Transparency
    • Eyeballs & bugs
    • Release Early & Release Often
  • Wikinomics
    • Wiki Worship & Soft Security
      • Consumerism: leaders produce, congregation consumes
      • Prosumerism: leaders help congregation to produce AND consume
    • 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?)