I find this to be beautiful and genius. How could the church be more like this? Operating with a particular plan, all moving toward one goal and the result being far greater than what one would be accomplish alone. Could sermons, worship, bible study, administration, committees work like this? Is it possible to be this […]
Our senior pastor recently mentioned the possibility of using worship on DVD to facilitate formation of house churches for renewal in the mainline church. There are a couple distinctions that I see from a web stream. One distinction is that there is intentionally a physical community gathered to worship. I think that this is a […]
My wife, Nicole, and I immensely enjoy our DVR courtesy of our U-verse subscription. Some of my favorite shows are The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The Office. It is great to be able to watch whenever we want. Is this the right thing for the church? At Resurrection we recently began live streaming […]
This past Saturday I returned from my first visit to an event at one of the general boards and agencies of The United Methodist Church. I was at the General Board of Discipleship for the Open Source Liturgy Project about which you can read in a few previous posts. I believe that this particular project […]
This morning we are finding out more about the expectations for what is to come next. Each person here will be gathering a group to write liturgies in each of the following areas: Holy Communion Baptism Death and Resurrection Christian Marriage Here is a presentation on Understanding the Open Source Cores for the Open Source […]
We have started Day 2 of the Open Source Liturgy Project and I am looking forward to learning more about the technical platform and what is going to be next after being here. You can check out a little bit of the technical platform at http://wikigbod.org/wiki/tiki-index.php We are spending some time this morning discussing the […]
I am at the first session of the Open Source Liturgy Project hosted by the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church in lovely Nashville. I flew in on Southwest Airlines this afternoon and had a great experience getting out of the airport and to the shuttle on to Scarritt Bennett where I […]
During my time at Resurrection, I have taken three trips to benchmark other churches. Bus trip with senior staff to Willow Creek and Granger Community Church North Coast Church and Rock Harbor in preparation for launch of the Vibe worship service LifeChurch.tv in preparation for launch of the internet campus. Each of these trips have […]
It was a great Leadership Institute. My dad came up for the Institute and also stayed with us, which was a lot of fun. I enjoyed each of the plenaries and made it through two workshops with Jeff Clinger and Amanda Smith in what turned out to be a great collaboration. I also particularly enjoyed […]
The excitement kicked off at Resurrection with the start of Contemporary Worship Institute on Wednesday. Here is my top 10 from yesterday Spent time with Bob Kirby, friend from seminary and pastor in Delaware. He is in town for Leadership Institute. Hearing a little bit of Paul Baloche opening the Contemporary Worship Institute Seeing the […]
The festivities at Resurrection this week kick off with Contemporary Worship Institute registration tonight. They will continue with Leadership Institute on Thursday and Friday. It is an exciting, inspiring and exhausting time for the next few days. Keeping with the theme for Leadership Institute, I will be bringing you my own top 10 from each […]
I invite you to you to be a part of a photo experiment from Leadership Institute 2008 at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. Upload any pictures that you take while at Resurrection for Leadership Institute 2008 to Flickr.com The pictures might be of space, buildings, speakers, workshops, funny or serious. Add the tag […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 