Just finished a couple of thoroughly enjoyable interviews.

Warren Bird is doing an article for Leadership Journal on theater churches. It’s amazing the way interviews help me clarify my thinking.

One of the things I “threw out there” is my conviction that there needs to be a thousand theater churches (there are less than a 100 currently). I told Warren that I’m “cursed.” I can’t walk into a movie theater without assessing it’s viability as a church location! I also threw out the idea of hosting a one-day gathering the day before our Buzz Conference for theater churches to round table and share best practices. Leadership might piggy-back on the idea and so some surveying of theater churches to identity challenges/issues we could focus on. Pretty excited about the partnership possibilities.

I just hung up with a reporter from the New York Times who is doing a business section story on podcasting and religion. I told her that podcasting is the 21st century equivalent of the gutenberg revolution. Give it ten years and godcasts will become a part of the spiritual diet of most Christians. It’s the digitization of discipleship. It won’t replace “where two or three gather” or “forsake not the assembling together” but it’ll be a great supplement. I know I sound like an iPod evangelist, but I just believe in spiritual multitasking. Why not feed your mind and your spirit while you working, working out, commuting or relaxing.

One of the things I shared with the reporter is that my blog allows NCCers to get into the head and into the heart of their pastor. I think that is increasingly important as NCC grows larger.

Looking forward to seeing the articles!