The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

There’s been a lot of dialogue around the web regarding Josh McDowell’s comment in a keynote address that; The internet is the greatest threat to Christians.

I think he’s right.

Josh says that the main issue boils down to the abundance of information that has created more skepticism. This is not why Josh McDowell is right. Jesus can stand up to skepticism if we get out of the way.

The real reason that the internet is the greatest threat to Christians is Christians themselves!

Christians have yet to learn how to be effective in the age of content abundance. I’ve been saying this for two years; the vast majority of Christians and Christian leaders have no idea what they are doing when it comes to creating content on the internet.

We can no longer create content that was intended to be consumed in a closed environment (church building) and spew it all over the internet to land in the laps of people with no context or relationship in which to make sense of it. It’s why I wrote Context and Voice.

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Context and Voice Tour Stop #9 | Josh Burns

July 7, 2011 in communications with 0 Comments

I met Josh at Echo Conference and got to hand out with him some more in Chicago at Story Conference that was held at his church, Park Community, last year. Josh drops a review of the book and leaves you hanging on a few points. Go check it out.

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Quality Matters

July 7, 2011 in Critical Thinking with 8 Comments

I few days ago I talked about the difference between art and design and I think when we understand that concept the next step is realize that quality is the result of a solid workflow of art and design. When we are constantly stuck in the design phase, and not operating out of creative surplus, then we will almost always have to settle for ‘good enough’.

True quality comes out of creative surplus wherein we have the margin to do our best work.

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Live stream conversation about Context & Voice

July 5, 2011 in communications with 2 Comments

DJ Chuang is going to have me on a live stream tomorrow, Wednesday July, 6 at 4:00 PM Eastern, 3 Central, 1 Pacific. We’re going to talk a bit about communicating, content and where the Church fits in with all that. We’re using the Vokle platform which will allow us to interact with you and allow you to be a part of the conversation.

Here’s the link. I’d love for you to join us and hear your thoughts.

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Context & Voice Tour Stop #8 | Chuck Harris

July 5, 2011 in communications with 0 Comments

Chuck Harris is a great friend and a fellow creative. Chuck has a great mind and always asks the right questions so I really value his thoughts on my book. Go check out his post.

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Context & Voice Tour Stop #6 & #7

July 1, 2011 in communications with 0 Comments

Tour Stop #6 takes us to Michael Buckingham’s ever so awesome blog; Jesus Hates Papyrus. Michael runs Holy Cow Creative which does a whole heap of awesome things to help churches communicate creatively in just about every way possible. Michael is also a really cool cat to hang out with.

Tour stop #7 takes us to Seth Caddell’s blog; Life as Experienced. Seth is a pastor inVirginia and among other things is a disc golfer…which makes him rad in my book.

Thanks for checking out the context and voice book tour!