Long time no blog.
Flying out every early morning, setting up every mid-morning, teaching every afternoon, doing standup every evening, and having a glass of wine with some of the most passionate, interesting, interested people in the church every night.
It's physically exhausting, but mentally exhilarating.
Some insights from Mililani, HI to Napa to Seattle to Portland to Kalispel to Denver to Orlando to New Orleans:
1. There is great hope FOR the church
2. There is great frustration WITH the church
3. There are great people who share both with me
4. We must KILL the age-segregated, parent-less, drop-off paradigm for Christian education before it kills the church
5. 7/8 of Christian education will be happening off site three years from today in those churches who choose to use the "every night in every home" methods we're developing
6. The future of Christian education will be done with this equation: MDP + MET+ MEP x 7
Most Dedicated People (i.e. parents... the ones who would die for the kid without thinking twice) plus Most Effective Times (I'll blog this later, but suffice it to say it's not on Sunday morning at 9 am... according to the human brain, the most effective time for maximum meaning making is 8 hours a night. It has to do with the hippocampus, neo cortex, and a few other things I'll blog later)
Most Effective Practices (that's where the psychology of learning meets the sociology of learning meets the neurology of learning meets the theology of learning... and this needs a lot of time, too)
x 7 (that's where our "every night in every home comes in)
7. The new model for "children's ministry" will be "children DOING ministry"
8. The new model for "family ministry" will be "families DOING ministry" (every night in every home)
9. The new model for "youth ministry" will be "youth DOING ministry"
10. The new model for the "children's sermon" will be the "children DOING the sermon"
My Houston, Coppell, Dallas, Austin, Huntsville, Elizabethtown conferences are today through Tuesday.
I'll drop some photos tomorrow... if I have five minutes to spare.
Cheers, ciao and mazaltov.
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