Here’s your chance to help write the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep. In a little over a week, we’ll be continuing in our series, Famous Lost Words, and we’ll be teaching on “purity.” So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of purity. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and…

Here’s your chance to help write the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep. In a little over a week, we’ll be continuing in our series, Famous Lost Words, and we’ll be teaching on “loyalty.” So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of loyalty. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and…

Central is hosting Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit again this year and one of the presenters, Gary Hamel, posed some interesting questions to churches. One of them is why don’t preachers employ open sourcing when it comes to writing the sermons? Open source philosophy is one of the secrets behind the success of things like Wikipedia, Linux, and the iPhone. It allows unlimited amounts of people to speak into the creation of a product or project. So here’s an idea that…