Thoughts
I love roundtable experiences where like-minded people with similar passions meet with a few questions as the only agenda. I hung out with about fifteen young pastors today and some of the insights were thought-provoking. I find that brainstorming allows my synapses to fire in new ways. I think one of the major challenges to postmodern ministry is that people process information differently than they did a decade ago. Most people will visit a website before visiting a church. That is not insignificant. That is why we do invites and evites and evotionals and trailers. We want to get people to our website first. We brand our website more than our name. I think one major transition in postmodern ministry is the seismic shift from print to image. We invest huge amounts of time trying to create pictures, metaphors, videos, images. I read something fascinating recently about the way we process information. The brain is able to process print on a page at a rate of about a hundred bits per second. But the brain can process at picture at about a billion bits per second. That means that a picture isn’t worth a thousand words! A picture is literally worth ten million words! Culture
I think so much of leadership is about creating and modeling a culture or climate. I can't expect people to do what I'm not doing. People will rise or fall to the level of leadership. I think Maxwell calls it "the law of the lid." Leadership will set the temperature and tone. People will pray as much as the leader prays. People will be as friendly as the leader.
Culture isn't created overnight. And it must be created with intense intentionality. That is why I weave "core values" into my messages. That is why we do videos like Praizd. There is a method to our madness!
Experiments
I think I'd like to experiment with a college-like "spiritual emphasis" week next year. It'd be a cool way to begin the New Year.
I'd also like to institute a "connection point" after services so that we have a more consistent opportunity for people to connect with NCC.
One more footnote. I heard something interesting today. In the absence of information people connect the dots in the most pathological way.
I think so much of leadership is about creating and modeling a culture or climate. I can't expect people to do what I'm not doing. People will rise or fall to the level of leadership. I think Maxwell calls it "the law of the lid." Leadership will set the temperature and tone. People will pray as much as the leader prays. People will be as friendly as the leader.
Culture isn't created overnight. And it must be created with intense intentionality. That is why I weave "core values" into my messages. That is why we do videos like Praizd. There is a method to our madness!
Experiments
I think I'd like to experiment with a college-like "spiritual emphasis" week next year. It'd be a cool way to begin the New Year.
I'd also like to institute a "connection point" after services so that we have a more consistent opportunity for people to connect with NCC.
One more footnote. I heard something interesting today. In the absence of information people connect the dots in the most pathological way.
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