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2012-06-09T10:50:45-03:00

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#100Startup: Style with Substance = Impact

Last updated on: June 9, 2012 at 10:50 am By Steve Knight

This week I’m blogging through Chris Guillebeau’s new book The $100 Startup and giving away a free signed copy! Find out how you can enter to win » In his chapter on “hustling,” Chris Guillebeau writes, “Being willing to promote in an authentic, non-sleazy manner is a core attribute of microbusiness success. … Take the time to make something worth talking about — don’t be a charlatan.” He gives practical advice on how to communicate about your project, and gives... Read more

2012-06-08T15:37:17-03:00

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10 Questions to Ask If You’re Wondering, “Am I Missional?”

Last updated on: June 8, 2012 at 3:37 pm By Steve Knight

Trevin Wax over at The Gospel Coalition has extracted and expanded on 10 diagnostic questions from Jason Dukes book Live Sent: You Are A Letter to help us determine if we’re truly being missional: When you speak of church, what prepositions do you use? When you think of missions, do you think of a mission trip to a distant city and a service project in your own community or do you think about daily life among your family, neighbors, and... Read more

2012-06-07T23:39:47-03:00

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#100Startup: What People Want vs. What People Say They Want

Last updated on: June 7, 2012 at 11:39 pm By Steve Knight

This week I’m blogging through Chris Guillebeau’s new book The $100 Startup and giving away a free signed copy! Find out how you can enter to win » Chris Guillebeau writes, “Despite what they say, most travelers don’t value the extra legroom enough to pay for it; instead, they value the lowest-priced flights above any other concerns. Airlines have figured this out, so they give people what they want — not what they say they want. A good offer has... Read more

2012-06-07T12:23:17-03:00

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Are There Really Any Thin Places?

Last updated on: June 7, 2012 at 12:23 pm By Steve Knight

One of the new books that’s getting some buzz in the missional blogosphere is Thin Places by Jon Huckins and Rob Yackley, both of whom work for NieuCommunities, a collective of missional church communities who foster leadership and community development. Subtitled Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community, the book covers listening, submerging, inviting, contending, imagining, and entrusting. I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know what Huckins or Yackley would say, but I’d be interested in hearing... Read more

2012-06-05T00:28:34-03:00

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#100Startup: Features vs. Benefits

Last updated on: June 5, 2012 at 12:28 am By Steve Knight

This week I’m blogging through Chris Guillebeau’s new book The $100 Startup and giving away a free signed copy! Find out how you can enter to win » Chris Guillebeau writes, “Value means helping people.” There’s a strong social good message that comes through in all that Chris says and does. That’s one of the things I really appreciate about Chris. He’s not in it only for himself. He’s not promoting entrepreneurism to help people make a quick buck. He... Read more

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2012-06-06T15:17:48-03:00

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The Kingdom of God Is Like … Paper Airplane Tossing?

Last updated on: June 6, 2012 at 3:17 pm By Steve Knight

This is just a great story! Christian Piatt writes, “We had all had enough of the office for a while, so we went to the park to fly planes. Within a couple of minutes a gaggle of little kids from a nearby preschool wandered by and stopped to watch Mattias’ aeronautical skills with awe. Mattias let one of the preschoolers nearest to him give one of the planes a toss, and pretty soon, he was surrounded. “A minute or two... Read more

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2012-06-05T00:50:53-03:00

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#100Startup: Action Beats Planning

Last updated on: June 5, 2012 at 12:50 am By Steve Knight

This week I’m blogging through Chris Guillebeau’s new book The $100 Startup and giving away a free signed copy! Find out how you can win » “Get started quickly and see what happens. There’s nothing wrong with planning, but you can spend a lifetime making a plan that never turns into action. In the battle between planning and action, action wins. … “A marketable idea doesn’t have to be a big, groundbreaking idea; it just has to provide a solution... Read more

2012-06-04T23:25:13-03:00

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Disrupt Your Church’s Status Quo … Or Else?

Last updated on: June 4, 2012 at 11:25 pm By Steve Knight

Michael Frost suggests that existing churches need to make some sort of radical change in order to disrupt the natural state of church ministry (a.k.a., the status quo) in order to successfully make the missional shift: “If you want to be a different sort of person, you’ve got to remove some of those structures that have made you comfortable being what you are now. So buildings and programs and paid staff and all of those sorts of things, they create... Read more

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2012-06-05T00:12:54-03:00

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#100Startup: Passion + Usefulness = Success

Last updated on: June 5, 2012 at 12:12 am By Steve Knight

This week I’m blogging through Chris Guillebeau’s new book The $100 Startup and giving away a free signed copy! Find out how you can enter to win » In the book, Chris Guillebeau talks about the “microbusiness revolution,” or people like him who are solopreneurs (entrepreneurs who work for themselves, usually have no employees, etc.). He writes, “Freedom is what we’re all looking for, and value is the way to achieve it. … Value is created when a person make... Read more

2012-06-11T01:28:04-03:00

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Missional Monday: Mission of God Study Bible, Missio Alliance, crippledJesus, and More

Last updated on: June 11, 2012 at 1:28 am By Steve Knight

Here’s a quick recap of last week’s major highlights from the missional conversation: The new Mission of God Study Bible bowed on Friday, edited by Ed Stetzer and Philip Nation, with contributions from mostly conservative evangelicals such as Christopher Wright. The video (above) illustrates the creative use of QR codes that makes the book more interactive. It appears to all be one-way communication, but it’s still a nice touch. The new Missio Alliance announced its first regional and national events.... Read more

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