Posted on 2/8/2012 by Warren Bird in the Learnings Blog
Please take a quick skim of these recent tweets (@warrenbird), just in case you missed any that you’d find helpful.
1. Tipping point calculated: when just 10% of population holds UNSHAKABLE belief, majority of society will adopt it http://news.rpi.edu/update.do
2. “We estimate that there are about 38 million inactive adult church members in the U.S.” Thumma & Bird, THE OTHER 80%
3. Where is the global church headed? Six-year project by Patrick Johnstone gives much to think about http://leadnet.org/blog/post/where_is_the_global_church_headed
4. Elephant Room. If you followed the "controversy" this year, here is @pastormark Driscoll's helpful take http://pastormark.tv/2012/01/31/10-reflections-on-the-elephant-room
5. Excellent PBS segment "World's Largest Church" named Yoido in Korea http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/january-27-2012/yoido-full-gospel-church/10162/ See also global megachurch list http://www.leadnet.org/world
6. YouTube popularity parallels Facebook with 4 billion page views/day, 60 hrs new video added every MINUTE http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2104815,00.html
7. Experts predict increase in churches sponsoring "culturally Hispanic" worship services http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/january/immigration-bilingual-bust.html #leadnet
8. 69% Evangelical churches that say they want to be racially and culturally diverse and 8% of evangelical churches that have non-English or bilingual worship services http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/january/gofigure-jan12.html
By Warren Bird
Warren Bird, Ph.D., is Research Director for Leadership Network and co-author of 24 books on various aspects of church health and innovation.
Comments
I think all of this convenience gviing talk comes from Nelson Searcy and his systematic approach to everything.We provide a box to receive contributions in, that we place in the back of the room at our gathering, and invite folks to utilize it for their contributions and comments/suggestions.We never recomend how much to give, nor do we require tithing from any of our participants including leaders.I am way too conflicted about tithing as the modern church has grown to understand it.Good to see your site up and working. Come by and check us out at indefaith.org. We are a new forum site that is gearing up to support folks that are starting new indie communities.