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Live-blogging a presbytery meeting… how would you react?

I just read a fascinating blog post by Adam Copeland and immediately wondered what my fellow PCCers would think. What did Adam do that was so thought-provoking? He live-blogged a presbytery meeting. That is, he published a play-by-play of the meeting as it was happening. A portion of the post is reproduced here:

So what do [...]

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Are you ready? Is your church ready?

I have two quick videos to share with you today and I’d like to thank Kem Meyer whose post this week reminded me that I’ve been meaning to do this for some time. I thank Kem also for offering this quote from Craig Groeschel, founder of LifeChurch.tv:
“We used to spend our time trying to get [...]

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The Internet is not Evolutionary

It is revolutionary.
I have spent a fair bit of my time over the last few years explaining the web to people. The people I talk to are smart people but the internet is new – and it’s new in a new kind of way. It is a transformative presence in our lives in ways we [...]

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How I volunteer at church

I made my church’s website. I know, it needs some updating; I’ll get around to that soon. When I made it, I thought congregation members would refer to it often. Daily. It would be their sole source of information for what was happening in the church. I cleverly embedded a Google calendar in the ‘Events’ [...]

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Twittering General Assembly 2009

I had a great time Twittering my way through General Assembly last week, somewhat officially, using the #pccga09 hashtag. I don’t Twitter much personally, but tweeting in this structured, intentional way really made me appreciate the technology and the medium.
On a personal level, writing tweets was a great exercise. It made me focus on what [...]

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