Velocity 2010 Church Planter’s Conference
Breakout #2 Speaker: Pete Wilson (Twitter)
“Everyone’s Welcome, Nobody’s Perfect, Anything is Possible”
Churches Desiring Transformational Community -
Studies Show:
- One thing that separates happy people from unhappy people is the simple idea of being connected in community.
- The level of satisfaction in churches is determined by the level of community experienced.
Someone said…”I’ve never known anyone who has failed to love & succeeded at life.”
Genesis 2:18 “It is not good for man to be alone.”
You were created with the capacity for deep relationships
Develop a Philosophy of community before you develop a Strategy of community.
(What is the Heart behind the strategy?)
*Your Church MUST understand that Everybody is Welcome.
Luke 15:2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
* Has your church created environments where people can belong before they believe?
Some Church Models = Believe, Belong, Behave
Church Models adapting to Current Culture = Behave, Belong, Believe
(It may be that people enter your church by participating in a church service event for the community rather than through the Sunday morning Worship Service)
Your Church Must Accept that Nobody is Perfect.
The sins you find the most appalling to God are the ones you don’t struggle with.
Your Church Must Believe Anything is Possible.
It’s the church’s job to create environments where we help people discover their new name.
Secular businesses & organizations understand that “Everyone is Welcome” and that “Nobody is Perfect” – There is nothing overtly “Christian” about that. The church has to believe in addition that “Anything is Possible!”
If our churches are a true “Just As I Am Churches” – We would not be able to put out enough chairs for the people who would come and we could not plant enough churches.
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Blog Pirates
A Blog Pirate: Someone who tries to steal the spotlight from a more successful blog in order to make their blog noticed and to increase their traffic stats.
This is usually done by pointlessly criticizing posts in order to drive traffic to their blog. Most blog pirates surf the “What’s Hot” on the front page of blog hosts (I.E. WordPress.com) hunting their next victim. They also search through the tags pages to see what blogs have the most comments (thus a high level of traffic) and rips into the author of the blog and/or their content. If you have ever crossed a Blog Pirate you will see why they have to steal the spotlight, its usually because their content is not good enough to draw their own crowd and keep them.
Blog Pirates know that most authors will defend their content thus linking to the pirate and driving their readers (traffic) to the pirate’s site, they also know that when people search for key words pertaining to the victim’s blog in Google the searcher will be driven to the pirate’s blog as well, thus attracting extra traffic. Blog Pirates are interested in one thing, signing on to WordPress and immediately going to their daily stats and seeing how many hits they had that day…nothing more, nothing less.
Watch it! You may be hijacked by a Blog Pirate today
Join the Conversation! Have you ever been attacked by a Blog Pirate? Know anyone else that has? I’ve been attacked and I know others that have been attacked as well.
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