Some ministries are still skeptical about the power of social media. They say, “As long as we preach Jesus and Him crucified, love people, and be faithful we’ll reach our communities.”
And you know what…they’re right. Ultimately it’s God that draws people to Himself. Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father Who [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Friends, Bloggers, Lend Me Your Ears (and Keyboards)!!
My new book’s coming out!
Don’t worry I’m not gonna try to coax you into buying a copy (although if you wanted to buy one I wouldn’t stop you either:)). But that’s not the purpose of this post.
“Well, what is the purpose Mike?!” Hold on now…I’m gonna get to that! Sheesh!
On LinkedIn I sent out a message to [...]
How to Get People to Work Their Best: Don’t Tell Them What to Do
What? I’m lost. Don’t people need direction, goals, a mission statement, and all that good stuff to be productive? Isn’t that we were taught? Isn’t that what we do? ”I need this by this time”…”do it this way”…”this is the way the company’s done it for years” and etc. That’s the right way!
Or is it??
It’s the best for [...]
Church Community is the Goal not Church Marketing
Sometimes I keep forgetting that the end goal of all this is relationship and community. By “this” I mean evangelism, edification, redeeming social media for the Gospel, looking for new and innovative ways to communicate a time-tested Message, and etc. It’s all about bringing as much people as we can into God’s family.
I periodically forget, [...]
The Danger of Trying to be a “Popular” Pastor
Is it wrong to want to be popular? Influential? Known? Yes and no.
Yes… it’s wrong when we seek to be popular at the expense of being true. Jesus told a crowd, “There’s trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not [...]
