Notes for Evangelism Conference

Evangelism is Dead. Long live Evangelism.

Things I Promised I'd Talk About

 * Modern Church vs. Post-modern Church (Post-Modern? WTF???)
 * Recent Cultural Trends and Ideas (My Fave, See Below)
 * Resources for Evangelism in Emerging Culture (Books, Articles, Cohorts)
 * Emerging Flavored Presbyterians (Presbymergent)

Jeff's Outline for Me

 * 1) Evangelism is Dead. Long live Evangelism.
 * 2) Historical overview of emergent
 * 3) *moving to a church that is more relevant to postmodern culture.
 * 4) Deconstruction (critical to emergence)
 * 5) *What evangelism has been
 * 6) *What evangelism should not be
 * 7) Evangelism as Deliberate (or intentional) Community
 * 8) *Relationships vs. Rules
 * 9) *Conversation vs. Conversion
 * 10) *Church fulfilling need for daily community
 * 11) *Congregation as participant developers vs. listeners & followers

Evangelism in Emerging Culture

 * It's all about community (and conversation)
 * Three options (IMHO):
 * Join an Existing Community (best)
 * Create One (good but hard)
 * Transform an existing one into one (hardest, possibly inauthentic)
 * My Experiences Evangelizing and Being Evangelized
 * Frisco Community Theatre
 * NCD Conference 2006
 * Conversations with Chris

Technological Concepts and Trends

 * Web 2.0 & Church 2.0
 * Long Tail Church
 * Open Source Movement
 * Transparency
 * Eyeballs & bugs
 * Release Early & Release Often
 * Wikinomics
 * Wiki Worship & Soft Security
 * Dynamic Truth in Tension
 * Consumers of Worship vs. Prosumers of Worship
 * Four Principles of "Wikinomics"
 * Openness
 * Peering
 * Sharing
 * Acting Globally

Other Random Soapboxes (Ask With Caution)

 * Truth, Truthiness, and Absolute Truth
 * Presbyterians Are Big Time Geeks.
 * Why Folk Music and Hymns are Emergent. And Cool.
 * ASCAP Sucks. So does Copyright.
 * Most Christian Education is Neither Christian Nor Education
 * Emerging Church Dress Code (why do they all look alike?)

Don't Just Sit There

 * Presbymergent (blog, wiki, survey, parties)
 * E.vangelize.us (what do you want it to be?)