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The human brain is phenomenal, complex and unmatched in it's abilities.

It's also largely untapped, and consequently, a bit lazy.

Take the word "church" for example. The mere mention of it immediately conjures up hardened mental models that are extremely difficult to break out of.

So to think outside the mental box requires some work. How exactly would church function if it didn't function like you thought it should?

That's the passion behind UnChurch: Discovering God at work in typically "unchurch" kinds of ways.

The unTube 

No, it ain't church...at least not like you suspected.

House2House's "How To Do A Workshop" video is well produced and makes some excellent points. The only thing I would add is that the main reason people forget what they hear is because they hear way too much. They key is to find a SIMPLE point and communicate that point in as many ways as possible (questions, discussion, role play, visuals, etc), all the while reiterating the point itself. If you can't completely and thoroughly summarize your point in a simple sentence then you probably have too much material for the setting. By example, here's my summary for this lengthy post: Summarize your presentation in ten words or less. Repeat often.

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The traditional business organization meets democracy. This may hurt a bit.

This is in the March 2007 issue of FastCompany:

[Ginni] Rometty [who runs IBM's global consulting and services business] has lived through all sorts of theories for organization: vertical, horizontal, matrixed, and now globally integrated. "But in one way or another, they are about hierarchy and rules, and they exist inside monolithic enterprises," she said.

The Church is no different. It lives and breathes on a strict hierarchy. Even so-called "emerging" churches quickly get sucked into the power of the pyramid.

But the UnChurch is different. The UnChurch is, in the words of Rometty, "a world of a billion single-person enterprises--where you organize around an endeavor, to do something."

And the GC2 (Great Commission & Great Commandment) are the most important somethings around which we can organize and collaborate...side-by-side, face-to-face, as equals in the Kingdom.

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Resistance is futile. Click to be assimilated.

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Books that will help you break free from tired thinking about the Church.

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