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Overcoming the Impediments: “bayoneting the wounded in the processes.”
As you may have surmised from my musings, they are about missional operational strategy, discipleship, technology and most importantly about change. Change is about education. There is no change unless there is a learning process and we must remember if we do not learn, we do not change, and we will not grow as an organization…
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Is Philosophy Important?
via Is Philosophy Important?
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Present and Future technology, cybersecurity, and concerns: The framework for success.
This musing post will be a tad more technical than past musing, so bear with me. We have been discussing technologies of the fourth and fifth industrial evolutions, and the tools that support reinventing your mission and church in the new world of Web 3.0. There are two critical concerns about the new technological developments…
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The art of reinventing your missional plan
Just because you have a missional strategy and plan does not necessarily mean it will be sufficient to get you to where you will be in three years especially in light of the evolving and changing world of technology and privacy. Look at your policies from three years ago primarily in technology. Did you have…
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Is your Operating Model going to change in a New World of Privacy?
Your Church – What Differentiates It? As the world is changing, and all you have to do is look to our sister churches, organizations and not for profits in the EU to see what is eventually coming to the US. Will your Church be an “e-privacy and Compliance Integrator”? If you are planning on “surviving”…
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Why Bother with Data Privacy? After all, it’s only data!
I have tweaked my website to reflect my focus on Data Privacy, in particular, Congregational Data Privacy. What you read in this musing is the opening pages of the site with some additional comment. Keep an open mind, and maybe we will arrive at the same place in time where the Missional Church meets the…
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“We are staying the steady course of experience” Really?
“Truth is not a thought, not a word, not a relationship between things, not a law. Truth is a Person. It is a Being which exceeds all beings and gives life to all. If you seek truth with love and for the sake of love, she will reveal the light of His face to you…
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Church Reimaged and Reinvented: Are you prepared?
“Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear regarding the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us…
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The Missional Church and the new world of technology are upon us…Are you prepared? June 5, 2018
The Fourth and Fifth industrial revolutions of technology are reinventing your church staff, congregations and governing bodies and are TRANSFORMING THE JUDICATORY. The transformation is happening whether you like it or not. The always-connected congregation is expecting the technology that permeates the lives of your people is the same technology in their church. The Apostles…
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Book Club: The Edge of Reason 6, the five characteristics of rational discourse
Originally posted on Footnotes to Plato: The Pioneer plaque Julian Baggini’s The Edge of Reason, of which we have so far examined the first five chapters, ends its second part with a discussion of the distinguishing characteristics of objective rational discourse. He begins it by suggesting that the problem with the classic (Platonic, really) view…