Link(s) of the Day :: Q3

This is the last set of links that I’ll share with you that come out of the Q conference, then it’s back to the abnormal craziness that I normally post in this section.

AdventConspiracy.com
This idea came from Rick McKinley, Chris Seay and friends. They did it at their church, so should (you)we. Yeah!   Go here to learn how churches decided to stop buying into the system and started to redeem a holiday about the birth of the Redeemer.  From the site…

“What if this Christmas your family, your friends, your church entered the story of Christmas and celebrated the birth of Christ in a way that was accurate, prophetic and transformative personally and globally. Could this baby that was born over 2000 years ago lead to something that dramatic today? We think so.”

ChurchRelevance.com
I met Kent Shaffer on Wednesday night right before Jon Foreman played. As I went to take my seat up stairs I introduced myself to the person sitting to my right and he introduced himself as the blogger from ChurchRelevance, a blog I read everyday. Kent is great with thoughts, plans, stats and tons more that are relevant to church.

Ethur.com
Mike Foster co-founded XXXchurch.com. He’s moved into a new organization with some pretty sweet ideas. Here’s the explaination taken directly from their site “ethur exists to create spiritually focused projects that change culture. Addressing issues from porn to poverty… the mission and directive of Ethur can be summed up with these two words :: DO GOOD.” Mike’s got a blog connected to ethur too.

kk.org
So if you’ve been reading my blog throughout the conference you know that Kevin Kelly spoke as a “futurist” at Q and I can’t tell you how incredible what he had to say was. He is unlike anyone I have ever heard speak on church and the perspective he brought to the event was so engaging. Let me tell you a bit more about him. He founded WIRED magazine and remains the “cheif maverick” there. He’s currently working on a project to identify every single species on the earth, he’s built some crazy clocks I don’t really understand, and he wrote a paper Nerd Theology. So… go check out his web page. It’s fun to read because he’s smart and his smartness makes me feel smart.