The human brain is phenomenal, complex and unmatched in it's abilities.
It's also largely untapped, and consequently, a bit lazy.
Take the word "church" for example. The mere mention of it immediately conjures up hardened mental models that are extremely difficult to break out of.
So to think outside the mental box requires some work. How exactly would church function if it didn't function like you thought it should?
That's the passion behind UnChurch: Discovering God at work in typically "unchurch" kinds of ways.
No, it ain't church...at least not like you suspected.
House2House's "How To Do A Workshop" video is well produced and makes some excellent points. The only thing I would add is that the main reason people forget what they hear is because they hear way too much. They key is to find a SIMPLE point and communicate that point in as many ways as possible (questions, discussion, role play, visuals, etc), all the while reiterating the point itself. If you can't completely and thoroughly summarize your point in a simple sentence then you probably have too much material for the setting. By example, here's my summary for this lengthy post: Summarize your presentation in ten words or less. Repeat often.
The traditional business organization meets democracy. This may hurt a bit.
This is in the March 2007 issue of FastCompany:
[Ginni] Rometty [who runs IBM's global consulting and services business] has lived through all sorts of theories for organization: vertical, horizontal, matrixed, and now globally integrated. "But in one way or another, they are about hierarchy and rules, and they exist inside monolithic enterprises," she said.
The Church is no different. It lives and breathes on a strict hierarchy. Even so-called "emerging" churches quickly get sucked into the power of the pyramid.
But the UnChurch is different. The UnChurch is, in the words of Rometty, "a world of a billion single-person enterprises--where you organize around an endeavor, to do something."
And the GC2 (Great Commission & Great Commandment) are the most important somethings around which we can organize and collaborate...side-by-side, face-to-face, as equals in the Kingdom.
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After graduating from high school, Eric attended Lee University in Tennessee where he majored in Christian Education and Psychology. It was at Lee that Eric met his wife-to-be, Phyllis. The daughter of author and international evangelist P. Douglas Small, Phyllis was a Psychology major and a Drama minor. Eric and Phyllis were married in 1993.
For the past twelve years, Eric and Phyllis have served in the local church in almost every capacity imaginable, most of that time as full-time youth pastors. In additions to his duties as an "image architect," Eric is currently serving as the Director of Communications for Wekiva Assembly in Longwood, FL. Before coming to Wekiva, Eric served as the Pastor of Family Ministries at Destiny Church in Orlando.
Previously, Eric served as the Managing Editor for YouthChurch.com and ProFiles e-journal for youth pastors (owned and operated by Strang Communications, home of Charisma magazine), directed the e-Resources for YouthLeader.org (a coaching ministry for small church youth ministries) and was a partner and web administrator with ProjectPray.org, a community transformation prayer initiative birthed out of the Pastor's Prayer Summit movement.
Phyllis works two jobs-full-time wife and mom and full-time Homeschool teacher of their three boys: Nicholas (10), Ian (8) and Reagan (6). In her spare time, she's raising her first baby girl (Daci-5 months old) and still finds time to stay involved in all kinds of social outlets and activities!
This is in the March 2007 issue of FastCompany:
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