I just had a thought.  Everything is crazy right now with the economy being like it is, but I just realized something about perspective from my work.  

I am now tasked with SEO for our site.  SEO is Search Engine Optimization and is the process of making your page rank well in search engines like Google.  The idea is the rank well for a phrase you expect someone to search on such as “discount tour tickets“.  I just looked at the site and they are trying to rank for everything under the sun instead of aiming for Key West Discount Tickets or New York Tour Discount or Cheap Tours in Washington DC.

When you focus on the specific then you get better results.  If we focus on one specific thing with God we can get better results than a generic “I’ll try to be a better person.”

Recently I saw part of a conversation on Twitter that asked the question: “Why do churches need a logo anyway, they have the cross.”

I thought I’d like to take a crack at that question.

Firstly, do churches NEED a logo?  Not really, they can indeed do all that churches do without a logo.  It is not like they can’t train up the saints or show people who Christ is without one.

Should they have one?  I think so and there are a couple of reasons for that.

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I’m fine with science verifying things we find in the Bible… it seems to happen nearly every day.  What I don’t like is when people try to use science to prove things in the Bible were normal happenings and had nothing to do with God.

First off, why bother?  If you don’t believe in the story of creation, for example, why try to explain a big bang that created everything?  Why fight against those you consider nut jobs that want to believe in a higher power?  Why, above all, say things like “This may be the explanation of the story in Genesis” if you don’t even believe the story in Genesis at all?  It’s like me trying to prove that cats won’t eat green ham and eggs or something! Read the rest of this entry »

The following are thoughts I have about the Case Study set forth by Mr. Locke. Please read that first to get the most of this:

First and foremost, it is a difficult situation with much based in traditions and comfort of doing things the same way. I think this church would be best served to look into the Biblical definitions of elders, deacons, pastors (what little is written specifically about that, but take the 5-fold ministry leaders as a guide because pastors are part of that), etc. and be prepared to reevaluate the traditions. After all, we must strive to do what the Bible says and not so much what our traditions say if they conflict. The pastor should be the head of the church and the others should be advisors, not govern-by-vote. If that were the correct method then when Moses came down from the mountain and “everyone” wanted the Golden-Calf-Religion he would have agreed. Read the rest of this entry »

Stever Robbins wrote an excellent article about identifying why you made the choices you did this election and using that to improve your decision-making and overall way of thinking. Come back to it in 4 years and see which fears were warranted and which hopes were exceeded.
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