Theology | Social Networking | Web Strategy | Whole-Life Integration
I started a blog… no a new one!
Brian Barela (on staff with CCC in California) and I have started a blog for people in ministry who are interested in blogging in general. We’re going to throw some design ideas, content ideas and some highlights of good ministry blogs on there.
That’s what I’ve been working on since I got back from the US Staff Conference in Colorado, that’s what the Tweet-flooding was.
I’m helping to run a major conference’s social media/networking team (Campus Crusade for Christ US staff conference; 6,000+ people). It’s been working well all week, but now it’s not…
Oh, wait. It’s working now.
Way to get on the ball Twitter.
I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week in the Durham, NC area at the Advance09 conference. It was a conference about the resurgance of the local church. I’m not talking about a political power and I’m not talking about something that involves violent war metaphors, protests and bait-and-switch events. In the past decades the Church has failed to take it’s role and responsibility seriously and has largely lost its direction.
The conference included some of the most powerful and cogent pastors and teachers who are bringing the message of Jesus into some significant and historically dificult places. Some of this difficulty comes both apathetic arrogance and from innoculated ignorance, both of which are our own fault. In the north and the west we’ve failed to engage the cultural conversation with anything significant to say and in the south we’ve assumed that everyone should know better and have engaged using blunt arguments that don’t address people’s hearts or minds.
I’ve been thinking and dwelling on some of the messages that I heard and I’m hoping to post a series of reactions to the conference and its implications.
