went out today to play a fundraising golf tourney, at hermitage golf club, for conference camping scholarships. had an eventful day with my team, the highlight being that a drone the 18th green (no small feat, almost pee'd my shorts I was so surprised). sadly this par 5 was out of my reach.
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if you involved in the united methodist church at any church geek level, as i am, then you no doubt know that ginghamsburg united methodist church does a lot of work with darfur. they were recently profiled on public broadcasting’s show “religion and ethics weekly.”
i know when we meet as a staff we talk a lot about the need for better communication. it is a huge pain in our b'hinds. so i'm totally spinning in thoughts stemmed from rev. dan dick's latest posting on communication misconceptions of our 'good' communication that undermine actual good communications.
here's his three hit points.
I believe there are three main problems we encounter that prevent or
undermine good communication: 1) confusing “transmitting” with
communication, 2) over-reliance on information as the most important
part of communication, and 3) making assumptions about what people
“know.”
currently i'm wondering what push of information i do and how different that is from actually communicating to folks? in the size ministry i have, its impossible to pick up the phone and call everyone, not to mention many folks would rather not have a phone call (or they will tell me so). i might have become so conditioned to this that it is my norm. i actively use twitter cause i can spew out information, but if no one communicates back i just move on. did i ever really convey an idea? does that mean i should start blogging regularly again since its more of communicating an idea/plan/dream/rant/etc.?
what can i do better to help with communicating to you? my church peeps? my family? my internet networkings?
in the meantime, go check out the rest of dan's thoughts on communications.
i'm pondering this quick little ted talk by derek sivers this morning. i caught this idea to be quite radical in shift in the way we look at leadership.
"it was the first follower that transformed the lone nut, into a
leader… if you really care about starting a movement, have the
courage to follow and show others how to follow."
as with most things it has me pondering of faith.. wondering if Jesus is the nut, then who is the follower who showed us how to follow? Saint Paul? some of the Disciples?
where am i in this? am i the guy that's trying to get attention by some silly song and dance or do i need to figure out how i show to follow better?
i think if we asked Christ about the idea of following to lead he'd be pretty stoked by it.
a lot has been made over the glenn beck 'leave the your church if it says social justice or economic justice' in the doctrine or whatever. i think he claimed they were hidden codewords for the liberal left. and with such an action he's getting quite a bit of pub.. not to mention my attention, which he's only gotten on daily show spoofs or when i'm at my parents house as my dad has foxnews on a constant cycle (till i find the remote). personally i want to think mr. beck has done this to ignite some media response cause he was low on ratings, why not stir the pot. i'm sure though he's just like many who have confused that social justice in our church setting is separate from the government.
i posted a comment on john meunier's blog as he's concerned over jeremy and his obsession with glenn beck.. i am too, worried, not obsessed.
my thoughts went like this.
i am totally with you that the speaking for social issues sounds like a political party discourse, or shout match.
also to say, when we talk about social issues & their subsequent
interventions, don’t we automatically assume its the churches job, not
the govt?.. (crickets).. oh, so i’m the only one there?as i got it, Christ wasn’t terribly thrilled with the government of
that day and didn’t seek to use them for his kingdom, so we we default
opt on using them as a Christian nation is beyond me. churches should
step up to their namesake they claim
so i welcome glenn's fanboys to tell me what he was really thinking.. i'm willing to tell you what Christ had in mind. i'm staying in my church, btw, with my social justice & economic justice agenda, you can keep your government partisan hackery (thanks jon stewart for that) to your news network.