Archive | July, 2009
5 (useful) links #14

5 (useful) links #14

Five websites and online resources to inspire, inform and enthuse. Today: 1. Megachurch technology; 2. for and against religion; 3. Twittering in church; 4. outreach idea and 4. a sex scam.

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Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it

I’ve now heard several times “I don’t get Twitter. It just seems to just be a website that displays your Facebook status updates”. If Twitter was just a place to display Facebook status updates, I can assure you, I wouldn’t be mildly interested! Afterall, if I just wanted Facebook updates, wouldn’t I just use Facebook? [...]

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Tweet the Gospel – it’s time to vote

A little while ago I mentioned the challenge laid down by Acts 29 to ‘tweet the gospel’ (i.e. boil the gospel down to 140 characters). 95 entries have been received, now it’s time to vote for which entry best communicates the gospel in 140 characters. One of the comments about this post was helpful – [...]

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Church Commuity Builder: an apology

Last week I wrote a post where I mentioned Church Community Builder and gave it a bad write-up, citing poor responses to my emails. I would like to publicly apologise to Church Community Builder. The problems I was experiencing were not due to Church Community Builder failing to reply, but my email server failing to [...]

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What web app would improve your ministry?

I met a web developer who has recently quit his job and would like to create web applications that would be useful for ministry. Have you got any suggestions for websites/applications that would really help you in your ministry? I can see a real need for a web application to help with rostering – all [...]

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Poll: How should you begin an email?

A friend of mine always copped a lot of flak for his emails. He never bothered with niceties, and always cut straight to what he was writing about. No “how are you?” or “hope you’re well”. He just didn’t think this was necessary for email communication. After some suggestions otherwise, he now commences his emails [...]

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