Innovate Like Edison

Just read the Book "Innovate Like Edison". You can check it out here.

The book is part biography of Edison and his prolific inventions, interesting life and successes and failures.

The book talked about Edison's Five Competencies of Innovation. As it says on the Author's site:
Edison’s Five Competencies of Innovation™ propelled him to a record 1,093 U.S. patents as well as 1,293 international patents. Edison’s approach to innovation not only encompassed the development and launch of extraordinary products and services, it encompassed deep mental preparations as well.

So it got me thinking about how innovative Churches can, should, need to be to do Church stuff and reach people.

Here are a couple of what I think are innovative Church ideas:

With the mad rush of Churches working towards becoming multi-site, Dave Ferguson is talking about being POLY-SITE. In other words, instead of duplicating the same service, approach and audience at various locations, having different styles of services, approaches, etc. at different sites.

While this idea is not new, it has generally been the purview of overseas mission. Some Churches are doing health clinics and health and wellness ministries. ECHO is a ministry that helps your Church go for having a clinic in your community.

While Churches have long sent missionaries to other countries, why not invite "missionaries" from other countries to come and do their thing in our communities. We have long been involved in exporting our brand of Christianity. Maybe it would be healthy to bring our culture and communities an overseas brand of Christianity.

And yes, I have read Steve Hockensmith's: The Black Dove: A Holmes on the Range Mystery
I will review it soon. Go buy it.