{"id":6008,"date":"2010-07-19T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:52:03","slug":"c-is-for-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/c-is-for-church\/","title":{"rendered":"C is for Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cisforchurch.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/scale-500x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"C is for Church\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6009\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/scale-500x407.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/scale-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/scale.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few friends helped put together a new e-book and website recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/cisforchurch.com\/\">C is for Church<\/a>, and have made it available for you to download (free or pay what you want).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cC is for church\u201d is a collective conversation for the Church at large. It\u2019s a step towards open-sourcing the discussions happening behind the closed doors of many church staffs.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from Senior Pastors to Support Staff to Administrative Staff to Church Members engaged in conversations that led to the published study. (over 100 hours of one-on-one discussions)<\/p>\n<p>Common motifs were discovered amidst the convos and are illustrated via typography. Each theme is meant to provoke a thought rather than provide an answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I read through it last night and thought it was an easy (and important) read for many of my friends so I&#8217;m passing it along to you as well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;d encourage you to <a href=\" http:\/\/cisforchurch.com\">download it<\/a>, read it and then if you get a chance, let me know what you think. <\/p>\n<p>Also, as you read the document\/manifesto you&#8217;ll also notice several references in the e-book to Seth Godin&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591842336?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1591842336\">Tribes<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested in building community &#8212; it&#8217;s a must read as well.<\/p>\n<p>My mates Thomas and Stewart talked about the book on our podcast right after it came out &#8212; if you want a &#8220;short summary&#8221; of Tribes you can listen to their discussion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/something-beautiful-podcast-122-tribes-pt1\/\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/something-beautiful-123-tribes-pt-2\/ \">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope you enjoy the e-book &#8212; I&#8217;d love to get your thoughts on it if you get the chance.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few friends helped put together a new e-book and website recently, C is for Church, and have made it available for you to download (free or pay what you want). \u201cC is for church\u201d is a collective conversation for the Church at large. It\u2019s a step towards open-sourcing the discussions happening behind the closed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/c-is-for-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">C is for Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,18],"tags":[3670,219,4659,1678,1680],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-faith","tag-c-is-for-church","tag-church","tag-community","tag-seth-godin","tag-tribes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1yU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}