It seems so many Christians today are living in a Christian bubble. We go to church on Sunday, bible study Tuesday, mid week service Wednesday, Community Group Thursday, and fellowship night Friday. All of our friends are from church and all of them are Christians.

If that's true of many Christians, what about those who work in the Christian world? For many of us, our life, passion and calling seems to be the very Church itself. It's very easy for Christians working at churches, para-churches, *COUGH*Christian leadership organizations*cough,cough* to live their whole life in the bubble, rarely stepping out - especially pastors. How does evangelism fit into this scenrio? If we're all in the bubble, who's out there sharing with the rest of America?

How/where do you evangelize?
Do you find this to be true, or not really?
What should we do about it?

New Catalyst West Coast Website!

Seth Godin's Tribes for $0.95 on iTunes!

MicroExplosion on Marketing: "The hardest question for a marketer (or advertiser or public relations person) to ask is this: is it better to say and do nothing than to create another one of those 4,000 messages that get filtered out everyday? The short answer is, yes, but that’s a tough pill to swallow."

USTREAM Shows:
Simply Youth Ministry Podcast
Team Digerati from LifeChurch.tv - Thursdays 2pm CST.

From Seth Godin: The effect of social networking on brands - is this why the Christian brand is so negative?

Live video from your phone (thanks Dan): FlixWagon

Share your innovations with Outreach Magazine via Tony Morgan's Blog

If this video doesn't make you cry, you have no soul.

Outreach Magazine runs an annual issue on church innovations. Dan Ohlerking and T-Mo are helping them gather innovations from the peoples.

You may be thinking, "yeah, well I don't want to share my innovation. Someone might steal it!" If you're thinking that, then you need a spanking, b/c we are the Body of Christ and we're all in this together - we need to share with each other and help each other and not make everyone else re-invent the wheel all the time. Maybe you're thinking "They're just a greedy for-profit company trying to come-up with the next slick content for their for-profit magazine, I'm not sharing with them" - this is bad too. Who else in the Body has taken-up the task of gathering all the innovation and sharing it with the rest of the Church? Well ... probably lots of people, but still, that's the problem. We need one central place/organization to gather it all and share it all.

So, let's all work together and make Outreach Magazine our meeting point. What if the whole Church shared our innovations, ideas, and experiences with Outreach? That would probably be their most read and best issue ever, and the whole Church would benefit from the biggest brainstorm session ever. The Church is the largest ad-hoc organization on the planet - if we work together, like Jesus prayed, we'll be able to do so much more!

Go RIGHT NOW and fill-out the form on Tony Morgan's site. Even if you think it's an insignificant thing, just do it - for the Body, baby!

We've heard from many of you about the impact and experiences you shared at this year's Catalyst. We'd love for you to share your stories, let us know what sessions had the greatest impact on you and your team, as well as your favorite Catalyst 08 moments.

We have our favorites, but we'd love to hear from you! How did God use Catalyst in your life/team this year? Share below!

This year we tried an experiment called Catalyst Backstage to enhance the Catalyst experience during the conference Oct 8-10. It was a central hub that allowed a behind-the-scenes peek into the event and provided a way for not only a new level of interaction with Catalyst, but a way for those who couldn't attend the event to follow some of what was happening as well.

It was a bigger success than we could have hoped for - with over 4,000 additional people getting to take part in Catalyst in addition to the over 12,000 leaders who were in Atlanta for the event!

We built the site from the ground up using some great code/technologies that are out there. It took many weeks of work, and as we worked through all of the kinks I decided it would be a complete waste to keep what we learned to ourselves.

Check out "Open Sourcing Catalyst Backstage" on my blog for a full explanation of how we did it, including some code samples to help you get started. All the base code we used is open source (except for the main blogging engine), in addition to what we added on top (our own). Feel free to take it, make it better and then share it back! Help us make it better - we'll be continuing to improve Catalyst Backstage for future events.