September 2009
62 posts
NBA, Iran, Twitter, Church-rater and the... →
By Jeff Smith
After hearing many different takes on churchrater this past week, I think this social media story in the NBA shows the same type of information democratization that the whole…
Gospel Exclusivity – Weigh In →
by Jeff Smith
Scot McKnight (one of my favorite theologians) is asking people to weigh in here on “gospel exclusivity”. Both an important topic and another example of what Tickle describes as …
Orientation, Position, Details – Post #1 →
by Jeff Smith
The future is just like the past (except shinier) →
by Jeff Smith
This Seth Godin post is a bit too true for comfort. How many of the planning meetings you sit in are based on this false future=shinier past premise?
China and the Web (& Church-rater and its... →
by Jeff Smith
Tom Barnett makes this comment:
You can always chose control of content over freer forms of connectivity, but it always comes with a cost. As China’s society–and thus its…
Evangelism as a country – a question →
by Jeff Smith
We’ve been batting this question around the past few days at Off the Map:
If evangelism concepts were nations, where would their borders be – and what roads would connect…
Orientation & Position #2 →
by Jeff Smith
G-8 to G-20? Another example of “Networked... →
By Jeff Smith
Whatever you may believe about the evils or good of globalization, this story about the G-8 expanding to the G-20 is, to me, just another example of what Phyllis Tickle calls …
Orientation, Position, Details – Post #1 →
by Jeff Smith
NBA, Iran, Twitter, Church-rater and the... →
By Jeff Smith
After hearing many different takes on churchrater this past week, I think this social media story in the NBA shows the same type of information democratization that the whole…
The future is just like the past (except shinier) →
by Jeff Smith
This Seth Godin post is a bit too true for comfort. How many of the planning meetings you sit in are based on this false future=shinier past premise?
Gospel Exclusivity – Weigh In →
by Jeff Smith
Scot McKnight (one of my favorite theologians) is asking people to weigh in here on “gospel exclusivity”. Both an important topic and another example of what Tickle describes as …
G-8 to G-20? Another example of “Networked... →
By Jeff Smith
Whatever you may believe about the evils or good of globalization, this story about the G-8 expanding to the G-20 is, to me, just another example of what Phyllis Tickle calls …
Patient Evangelism (A Possible Third Way) →
by Jeff Smith
A friend, Al Doyle, recommended Novogratz’s book The Blue Sweater, to me several months ago. Needless to say it was as transformative as Al said it would be.
As I watched this …
Women Only Trains →
By Jeff Smith Tom Barnett always says,
I can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its women.
Here’s a very interesting NY Times story about how women in India advocated so strongly…
Mirrors and Maps Conference Podcast →
Nick Fielder was kind enough to do a podcast with Jim about our upcoming Mirrors and Maps conference. Jim talks about the ideas behind Mirrors and Maps and what will happen there. And…
Women Only Trains →
By Jeff Smith Tom Barnett always says,
I can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its women.
Here’s a very interesting NY Times story about how women in India advocated so strongly…
Yelp (for developing countries) and for churches →
By Jeff Smith The Economist has this article in their Sept 24th edition and I think it has huge implications to the church-rater discussion we’re having here at OTM. First, the points the…
Patient Evangelism (A Possible Third Way) →
by Jeff Smith
A friend, Al Doyle, recommended Novogratz’s book The Blue Sweater, to me several months ago. Needless to say it was as transformative as Al said it would be.
As I watched this …
Mirrors and Maps Conference Podcast →
Nick Fielder was kind enough to do a podcast with Jim about our upcoming Mirrors and Maps conference. Jim talks about the ideas behind Mirrors and Maps and what will happen there. And…
Yelp (for developing countries) and for churches →
By Jeff Smith The Economist has this article in their Sept 24th edition and I think it has huge implications to the church-rater discussion we’re having here at OTM. First, the points the…
The Gathering Center →
By Jeff Smith
The Gathering Center →
By Jeff Smith
Half (51%) of “Nones” still believe in God →
A friend sent this USA Today article to me this morning and I think it’s interesting.
In a survey done by Trinity College, it turns out that over half of the Nones (Americans who don’t identify…
ChurchRater gets press →
Christianity Today has a post up about newly relaunched ChurchRater
Church Rater or Church Hater? Does a new church rating website help or hurt those seeking a congregation?
…
Why I Rate Churches →
I got these emails from leaders who like Off The Map but don’t like Church Rater.
Sorry Jim, But Church Rater misses the point. The church has already spent a lot of time trying to impress…
Erosion →
By Jeff Smith
Sola scriptura (only scriptura) has eroded. If we take American history as a picture, we can see this erosion quite profoundly.
The first current flood was slavery. While the…
Sola Scriptura and the Hits It’s Taking →
By Jeff Smith
Half (51%) of “Nones” still believe in God →
A friend sent this USA Today article to me this morning and I think it’s interesting.
In a survey done by Trinity College, it turns out that over half of the Nones (Americans who don’t identify…
Why I Rate Churches →
I got these emails from leaders who like Off The Map but don’t like Church Rater.
Sorry Jim, But Church Rater misses the point. The church has already spent a lot of time trying to impress…
ChurchRater gets press →
Christianity Today has a post up about newly relaunched ChurchRater
Church Rater or Church Hater? Does a new church rating website help or hurt those seeking a congregation?
…
Erosion →
By Jeff Smith
Sola scriptura (only scriptura) has eroded. If we take American history as a picture, we can see this erosion quite profoundly.
The first current flood was slavery. While the…
Sola Scriptura and the Hits It’s Taking →
By Jeff Smith
Multiple Popes and other Authority Problems by... →
Where now is the authority video-blog
Planning Advantages by Listening →
You must learn through planning.
You must question the situation…
Some commanders perform this analysis.
If you use these commanders, you will win.
Keep them.
Some commanders ignore this…
Planning Advantages by Listening →
You must learn through planning.
You must question the situation…
Some commanders perform this analysis.
If you use these commanders, you will win.
Keep them.
Some commanders ignore this…
The Art of War (or Meetings) →
It starts with your philosophy.
Command your people in a way that gives them a higher shared purpose.
You can lead them to death.
You can lead them to life.
They must never fear danger or…
Shipping Water →
…until that fateful time, about once every five hundred years, when the outer casing of the story and the inner sleeve of the shared illusion take a blow simultaneously. When that happens, a hole…
The Art of War (or Meetings) →
It starts with your philosophy.
Command your people in a way that gives them a higher shared purpose.
You can lead them to death.
You can lead them to life.
They must never fear danger or…
Shipping Water →
…until that fateful time, about once every five hundred years, when the outer casing of the story and the inner sleeve of the shared illusion take a blow simultaneously. When that happens, a hole…
Rummages Sales – Every 500 Years →
Sometimes the only way to understand what is currently happening to us as 21st century Christians in North America is to understand that about every 500 years the Church feels compelled to hold a…
Rummages Sales – Every 500 Years →
Sometimes the only way to understand what is currently happening to us as 21st century Christians in North America is to understand that about every 500 years the Church feels compelled to hold a…
Tickle and the Great Emergence →
One of my favorite miniseries is John Adams – done by HBO in the past few years. The reason that miniseries is compelling is because I get to view history as a participant, in that case, as John…
Idea Parties →
I’ve been a teacher – that is on this side of the desk – for 17 years. I’ve been a student for almost 35 years. Having sat in too many classes, churches and business workshops, I’ve come to several…
Phyllis Tickle & Michael Frost/Off The Map /Nov... →
Off The Map brings leading thinkers and practitioners to expand your spiritual horizons.
Phyllis Tickle has recently lit up the Christian scene with her innovative thinking in a book titled…
Greed’s conclusion →
All of which is to say that the symptoms and causes of the Reformation differ from the symptoms and causes of our recent disconnect more in wrappings than in content, the motto of the former – the…
Tickle and the Great Emergence →
One of my favorite miniseries is John Adams – done by HBO in the past few years. The reason that miniseries is compelling is because I get to view history as a participant, in that case, as John…
Idea Parties →
I’ve been a teacher – that is on this side of the desk – for 17 years. I’ve been a student for almost 35 years. Having sat in too many classes, churches and business workshops, I’ve come to several…
Phyllis Tickle & Michael Frost/Off The Map /Nov... →
Off The Map brings leading thinkers and practitioners to expand your spiritual horizons.
Phyllis Tickle has recently lit up the Christian scene with her innovative thinking in a book titled…
Greed’s conclusion →
All of which is to say that the symptoms and causes of the Reformation differ from the symptoms and causes of our recent disconnect more in wrappings than in content, the motto of the former – the…