What are the most Innovative things you've seen churches do in the past year? I got an e-mail from Tony Morgan, who is working with Outreach Magazine to discover what great innovations are happening in the church. In recent years they have compiled a list of the most innovative churches and Community Christian Church has made the list every year. However, Tony and Outreach are doing things a little different this year; Instead of focusing on innovative churches, they're trying to uncover the innovations themselves.
This is where I need your help! Could you take this BRIEF SURVEY on innovations in the church? They're really looking for stories of life-change that are happening because ministries were willing to take a risk. The plan is to share learnings from a broad cross-section of churches. If we get enough people participating this it could be a big help to the larger church.
And if you have the time, leave a comment on this blog sharing some of the church innovations that you are excited about!
I'm excited about the growing interest and application of a Christ-centered life coaching approach to growing disciples. This ongoing, intentional process of weaving spiritual growth into everyday life is vital.
Floating Axhead just posted a great thought about the excitement with what Seth Godin calls the "first drip" (in this case, a person's conversion). But the interest in that person seems to drop after that.
Check out the link: http://floatingaxhead.com/2008/10/27/the-last-drip/
Coaching is innovative in that it apples a proven practice between coach & client where the client sees significant progress over time - consistently applying God's Truth to their context over and over again in the presence of a person (coach) who is 100% for their success.
Posted by: Scott Couchenour | October 28, 2008 at 07:44 AM
Seems like a great time to tell them about the Carillon Campus. There are lots of "over 55" communities in which to bring about life changes and stories.
Posted by: pat | October 28, 2008 at 02:50 PM