Elevator Pitch

A guest speaker at the training college a few weeks ago talked about developing an ‘Elevator Pitch’ as an evangelism tool. The idea to figure out, perhaps, how to succinctly explain the basics of the gospel in the time it would take to get from the ground floor to the floor of choice (the amount of time certainly depends on the quality of the elevator – at training college, maybe 2 mins from G->10?)

So, I’ve been thinking a little about that lately. What would you say if you only had 30 seconds? (I’m going to have to think about this one a little longer..)

THEN, I signed up for a “Build a Better Blog Challenge”,  and the #1 task is to ‘Write an Elevator Pitch for Your Blog’. Fancy that! It seems that business and self improvement type courses have been teaching students to develop an elevator pitch for their business or themselves, and so an extension of that is to use it to improve your blogging.

The question that I have to ask I suppose is; Why do I do this? What is it about?

Maybe it’s this; (eek! I still don’t know..)

To uniquely and passionately share the things I’ve experienced, the thoughts I’d had and the things I’ve seen, so that readers will be spurred on in value, faith and life.

..Except for that one about being eaten by the Giant Spider..

Have you ever heard Danielle Strickland’s dream? She thought that it must have been satanic – it was after all about her being eaten alive by spiders. But then, she woke up to the reality that God was wanting her to see. And it changed everything about the way that she looked at the world. I’ve heard her talk about it a couple of times now, but if you haven’t yet, here’s the quick-talking-vod-cast-version for your ease of viewing. The whole vid is great, but Danielle’s bit starts about 2 mins in. Thanks to Adam at Youth Specialties for producing it and making it public. Great stuff.

 

ps. have you ever wondered what this whole blogging thing is about? Why the heck do we do it? Who reads this stuff anyway? Have a look here (I blog your pardon?) for ACTNOW’s take on the whys and wherefores.

New Blog – Genesis

Hey, I just got an email from my mate Steve Friend who works at The Salvation Army’s Genesis Centre in Northbridge, WA.

Steve has started a blog telling of how the transformational power of God is working in the lives of people at the Centre – Staff, clients, students, everyone.

It’s pretty exciting stuff. Thanks Steve.

Here’s the link – http://tsagenesis.blogspot.com

Peace out

A New Beginning

Hello

I’m thinking about attempting to start fresh on the pathway of blogging. I’ve spent a little while playing with colours and schemes, and a little bit of time thinking about the kinds of things that I would like to blog.

I would like to think that my life will continue to become more and more adventurous. And, I would like to think that God will challenge me more and more everyday. For that reason, I hope that I would not have a lack of things to blog about!

Maybe it can be a reflection place.. and other things. It’ll develop I guess.

Thanks for being on board. Feel free to be apart of my online life again!

Praise be to God