» 3. Contagious relationships

Guy Kawasaki did a job search for “evangelist”. He found 611 matches—and none were for churches. It seems that “evangelist” is now a secular, mainstream job title. Indeed, the first eight matches were for evangelist jobs at Microsoft.

Here’s his wisdom for secular evangelists:

Create a cause.
Love the cause.
Look for agnostics, ignore atheists.
Localize the pain.
Let people test [...]

Every real friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion . . . In each knot of Friends there is a sectional ‘public opinion’ which fortifies its members agains the public opinion of the community in general. Each therefore is a pocket of potential resistance.

CS Lewis, The Four LovesEnjoyed this post from OnMovements on [...]

This just came in from Grant Morrison via email. An experienced Alpha practitioner…

We have been running Alpha for over 5 years. We run at least 2 courses a year. I have found it to be a great reaping tool. Here’s what we’re learning:
Don’t fill the course with Christians, make sure you keep the ratio of [...]

I’ve just listened to an interview with Jonathan Aitken, disgraced former British MP and government minister jailed for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Aitken came to faith after friends encouraged him to do the Alpha course.

The interview is worth listening to if you don’t mind the 22meg download. [...]

My father’s boyhood hero was his cousin, Jim Spence. Jim grew up in the Australian outback. Just before the outbreak of World War II Jim and a six of his mates lied about their ages and joined the Australian Lighthorse Brigade. Jim was sixteen.

War broke out and the boys found themselves fighting in North Africa. [...]

Pre-existing relationships are the key to any exponential growth of a movement.