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My Obligatory Shout to Innovation3

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 29, 2009

innovation3-gathering-connect-with-100s-of-innovative-church-leadersAnd it’s not that I don’t love you guys… I just wish I was there…!

The interwebs are “buzzing” with drops of the hashtag #i3 as tweets are blazing up my tweetdeck. An apparently there’s an A-List of bloggers who are there:

I personally haven’t met half of these, but would love to some day! I know that a few of them are live-blogging the event and are providing some extremely relevant and valuable content for the masses.

One particular blog that’s doing a real good job (from my perspective) is Kent’s over at ChurchRelevance. He’s organizing the conference information consistently, stylistically, in appropriate bite-sized pieces.

I really dig that.

Check out his 5 question interview with Mark Driscoll about Multi-Sites. I think there’s some definite parallels that would tag along quite nicely with iCampus Experiences and Internet Campuses:

At Innovation3, Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church (Seattle, WA) gives 5 reasons for why churches should use a multi-site format.

  1. Theological
    Jesus wants us to multiply and expand to make disciples.
  2. Missiological
    In 1 Corinthians 9, Paul says that he will do all things and use all means to reach people.
  3. Historical
    The church networks of the early church
  4. Technological
    Technology has given us new opportunities. Seats, pipe organs, printed words, microphones, and multi-site are all “innovations” that have been implemented into the church with resistance at first. All ministry is culturally contextualized, but the question is, “What year?”
  5. Practical
    It allows you to get “big” and “small” at the same time. You can improve your production and preaching and consequently grow big without having to sacrifice community and your small groups. The multi-site allows more people to specialize in their areas of ministry.

Thanks Kent, great job. Anyone else got any great stuff that I need to be reading…?

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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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8 Responses to “My Obligatory Shout to Innovation3”

  1. Gabe Taviano
    Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    Yay for Innovation 3. I personally am not a fan of conferences, lol. Guess I'm just not into the "hey, let's meet and feel famous, then come home from church camp and feel lonely or do nothing with what we've learned" practices.

    What I am a fan of is your new RSS and social icons on the site. Nice work yough!

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 12:51 pm

      dude. i love your honesty. you make this all worth while.

      Reply
  2. Kent Shaffer
    Friday, January 30, 2009 at 12:13 am

    Thanks for digging my note taking.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, January 30, 2009 at 1:08 am

      haha. of course man. you're solid.

      Reply
  3. Conner_Byrd
    Friday, January 30, 2009 at 4:23 am

    Yeah I'm sick about not being there also! I can't decide if I want to unfollow everyone there, stay off TweetDeck or just suck it up and become the bigger man :)

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    • human3rror
      Friday, January 30, 2009 at 4:48 am

      hahaha. perhaps the first.

      :)

      Reply
  4. McH
    Friday, January 30, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Hi, is there a podcast or free videos about Innovation?

    Reply