The JCG Blog-How Can We Improve It?
Rob mentioned our JCG meeting next Tuesday and Wednesday (26-27) in Myrtle Beach (Buddy Lindsay, the tax lawyer who organized JCG, lives in
Myrtle Beach and owns a Hampton Inn hotel, which he offers for us at super reduced rates).
We spend the morning on Tuesday building our team relationships. Often the icebreaker is to show five significant pictures that summarize our past year and explain why those pictures are so important. We take time to pray and then share lunch together. Tuesday afternoon is brainstorming and vision casting time. On Wedneday we get down to hashing out the particulars for 2008 and beyond. One item we will be covering is this blog. We want to know how we can improve it, what we should be doing differently, etc.
Soooo, let me ask you:
How can we improve this blog? What have you liked and disliked? Should we be more thematic in our approach–that is, cover one topic for the entire week? Or do you like the free-flowing way that we have been running this blog? Who else would you like to hear from on these blogs?
Thanks in advance for your response!
Joel
Walter Yanes. said,
February 20, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Me gustari escuchar o leer algo de nuestro hermano Mario Vega creo que es de su equipo.
I would like to hear from our brother Vega i believe belong to yours team.
I will be prayin for you, you are a blessing for me.
Mike Donaldson said,
February 20, 2008 @ 11:15 am
Joel:
I think this blog “as is” is a very helpful tool for the adherents of Cell Church ministry. I think the “fresh wind” that the coaches of this blog impart to the readers perhaps deal with “the here and now” issues of cell church practitioners. The readers so to speak are able to “touch” the experts, and be touhced by them on a daily basis.
I think as more learn about this ministry tool, more conversation will be generated. I know the blog is listed on the website, but not sure if it is referenced as an “advertisement” on your latest book publications. If not, this may be a way to get the word out.
Mike
Michael Sove said,
February 21, 2008 @ 5:59 am
I love this blog it is the first thing I read as soon as my computer comes on. I find it extremely helpful and I like when the writers ask for our responses. I’m now reading the comments that others make as well. I’m hard pressed to think of anything to improve on it. Thanks
Iain Garrett-Benson said,
February 21, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Sometimes Joel/Steve/Rob says something like this is what I think about some topic and basically I just agree (after nearly a decade of following Comiskey & Co, reading their books etc you’d hope that something was sticking and that I have learnt something). I don’t get much from those entries.
Blogs aren’t really best used as a mechanism for teaching (to teach on line you can just write an article and stick it up on a web site, like Joel has been doing for the last decade). Blogs are for dialoguing. Blogs need to be two way. They suit the post modern generation mindset. I can learn from the dialogue that can go on in a blog, even if it sounds mundane. I don’t need to be dazzled by brilliant teaching.
I am more interested in praxis then theory. I love to hear the real life stories and the experiences that the guys have gone through. I learn more from Joel/Steve/Rob’s distresses concerning a topic then when they are totally in control of it. I am more encouraged by their failures then their great victories. When they are failing it gives me hope!
I like it when one of the guys puts up a topic, and says something like I am not really sure what to think about this and this is my current thought process about it. What do you think? Then I am challenged to think about the topic. Like Joel and his unmotivated leader example earlier this year. That story made me think about my situation with my wife and myself. How do we plant a cell and still fit everything else in? Can you be a cell church planter and still have a job? It raised other issues and made me THINK.
I also like to hear what other people think. So I have the RSS reader on my browser. Every day it’s straight to any comments from blog readers. I get a lot out of reading other folks responses, I learn from their praxis - I just wish I could read Spanish
Reginald Hall said,
February 21, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
I like the free flow from this blog. This is the first thing I do in the morning, it encourage me. We are in transition from traditional church to cell life and I have hurdle a few bumps in the road, but their is always something on this blog that helps and encourages me. Joel/steve/ Rob keep up the great work and let it flow.
Chris Kipp said,
February 21, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
I’d have to agree with the other comments to this blog. You guys are doing a great job. I especially like the different takes that come from the differing styles that you each possess. I work with college cells and we are always looking for fresh perspectives. One thought is what if you enlisted a 20 something cell pastor that was able to give a cell perspective for the youth and college cell ministries?
Pam Teel said,
February 22, 2008 @ 7:57 am
Ditto! I really am impressed that I can ask a simple question and get a simple response directly from you guys! You are truly in the Kingdom building business. The comments by others is invaluable!
RichardHoule said,
February 23, 2008 @ 8:55 am
1. Could there be an the end of the blog a place where it woud say something like : “Did you know that”, then added in one phrase a
“news on the cell church movement.”. That would help us from outside (i am from Quebec, Canada) to see what God is doing in other parts of the world through the cell church movement. Even if it is not each day, that would be apppreciated. I know that would be another thing to do, but you asked
2. I agree with the comment on emphasizing discussion through the blog
3. Could there be a place on the “page of comments” with a link to a translation site so we could read the Spanish guys that write. It would be quite useful so we can understant the crux of what the brother says, even if the translation is a bit awkward.
4. I would prefer a theme for each week, so one particular interesting theme would be developed. It would increase the discussion part because we would have a whole week to give our comments on the subject. So if we were away fot one or two days, being not able to comment, we could do so knowing the subject is the same on that week.
Just suggestions.