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Friday 5 – Michael Sullivan

Posted by John Saddington on Dec 19, 2008

Today’s Friday 5 is with Michael Sullivan.  I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know him through twitter and through the blogosphere and I count him as a close internet bud.

The fact that I can say he’s an “close internet bud” makes me smile.  Remember when you really didn’t make friends on the interwebs?  Yeah, that used to suck.

Name?

Michael Sullivan – aka Sully

Blog/Website[s]?

http://www.sullied.org

http://www.twitter.com/sully_michael

http://www.navrik.com – Illustrator Video Tutorials

Time Bandits or Favorite Websites?

Google Reader

Twitter – via Tweetdeck

Digg

Adobe Illustrator

Whatcha Working On?

Personally – Working on an Illustrator video tutorials site, similar to Lynda.com but free. I have a passion to teach others what I know, and I believe sharing that knowledge can only help. Hopefully it grows to a useful tool for aspiring designers.

Professionally – Changing the identity of my church, which recently changed it’s name. Also creating a new identity for a conference my church will soon be hosting.

How do you see Web Technology impacting The Kingdom?

In every way possible.

But specifically…The web constantly brings others closer, even though users are thousands of miles away. Right now, the ones benefiting from the web for Kingdom sake are leaders. Those called to stretch the everyday beliefs of what a church or the Church should be.

I believe the web challenges the regularity of the Church while commanding followers to understand God’s Kingdom is everywhere, even in the digital realm. Because of this, Christ’s presence only has room for growth.

Think of how far we as believers have come on the web, and dream of how far God can take us.

I work in the Student Ministry and there is not an easier method to contact with guys in my small group than through text messaging and the web. At the moment it seems that they live on the web, but are not connecting in ways (put nicely) that don’t benefit their relationship with Christ. I can only imagine how Christ will be shaping the patterns of students on the web in the near future. I want to see it happen.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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13 Responses to “Friday 5 – Michael Sullivan”

  1. Leo Wurschmidt
    Friday, December 19, 2008 at 5:20 am

    Sully, it is nice to meet ya. I will have to pass on the Illustrator tutorial site. I know my wife (the graphic designer) loves to have more resources like that at her disposal.

    I think you are so right. There is so much untapped potential right now with the web. It will be incredible to see how God helps this take off and further strengthen the community of believers.

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    • sullied
      Friday, December 19, 2008 at 6:11 am

      hopefully i can get the tutorial site up to help your wife then.

      glad we can partner in the same beliefs of the potential on the web and try to do something about it.

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      • human3rror
        Friday, December 19, 2008 at 6:14 am

        you rock. thanks!

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      • Christopher
        Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 3:00 am

        I am looking forward to the tutorial site as well. I use illustrator every day but I am always surprised how wrong I do things sometimes. Like saving out to Photoshop to make changes that I am sure Illustrator can do.

        On your other point. I love how God puts people together at the right place and right time. I am thankful to have met you all (virtually) and I know together we are going to do amazing work in His name.

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        • human3rror
          Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 3:25 am

          should be very cool. wordpress. excellent choice.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, December 19, 2008 at 6:14 am

      :)

      Reply
  2. Jim Gray
    Monday, December 22, 2008 at 5:46 am

    hey! i totally dig this Friday 5 thing! who's the rockstar behind all this?hmmm…seriously,good to read about people who do similiar things and what their tech faves are.

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    • human3rror
      Monday, December 22, 2008 at 1:24 am

      yeah, it's pretty rad. i like sharing the wealth of community.

      Reply

  2. churchcrunch (churchcrunch)

    New blog post: Friday 5 – Michael Sullivan http://tinyurl.com/4radds

  3. human3rror (human3rror)

    thanks @sully_michael for your time!: New blog post: Friday 5 – Michael Sullivan http://tinyurl.com/4radds

  4. sully_michael (Michael Sullivan)

    RT @human3rror: thanks @sully_michael for your time!: New blog post: Friday 5 – Michael Sullivan http://tinyurl.com/4radds