About a week ago I saw the following tweet from Craig Groeschel, the lead pastor at LifeChurch.tv:
Intrigued, I, and I’m sure many others replied and asked him if he could share more information. A few days later he shared this interesting post on his blog, giving a little more details regarding their online staff meeting. He spent most of the short post addressing why they had their meeting online (because everyone is so spread out), and sharing the results of the meeting.
Something really scary happened a few weeks ago. I was trying to tweak something on the back-end of my blog, messing with some of the code, and feeling good. I clicked the update button and that’s when I saw the message that dropped my heart into my stomach. 
It was a white screen that referred to some line of code. I didn’t know what it meant. All I knew was that I could no longer access my blog. If someone typed in modernekklesia.com all they’d get was a scary-looking white screen.
Fortunately, I was able to get it fixed, but it taught me a really valuable lesson: blogs must be backed up. Let me repeat this, if you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, you need to figure out a way to back things up.
I have almost no words. Amazing.
(This is from a recent worship service at North Point Community Church)
I think we’ve all had a secret fear that a drink will be spilled on our laptop and ruin everything. Or perhaps I’m just weird like that. In any case, I decided to finally get a keyboard cover for my Macbook Pro, and decided to share my thoughts after using it for two days.
I just finished reading another book by Alan Roxburgh, Missional Map-Making: Skills For Leading In Time of Transition (affiliate link).
What The Book Is About:
The central premise of this book is that you can’t lead in the same way as before, because we’re living in drastically different times. In the past, and mostly still today, pastors lead based upon a very modernistic framework. It’s an understanding that, if we just know what the problem is, we can figure out the solution. He says, “This longing for absolute clarity reveals just how much the church has been shaped by modernity. Modernity is all about control, clarity, and certainty” (p. 24).
I just finished reading an interesting article that Mark Driscoll wrote called Navigating the Emerging Church Highway. It’s an interesting critique and analysis of the emerging church movement. From his perspective he divides this movement into four main theological “lanes.”
1. Emerging Evangelicals. Those in this lane will tweak things like worship style or preaching in order to seem more relevant. They won’t be very invested in “social justice” type issues.
2. House Church Evangelicals. In this lane are Christians who believe that the house church is the best way to reach people. In this lane are those such as George Barna, Neil Cole, and Shane Clairborne. He mentions that a common critique of this movement is that they’re filled with disgruntled Christians.
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The most popular post is “The Surprising Results I Found When Reviewing a Special Report In Facebook.” If you missed it, this is your chance to find out what that mysterious and surprising thing is 
