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By Christopher Mann

...and, ode to visionaries like these Young Life videographers who don't just let good stories sit in a filing cabinet, but instead project them into the public square for greater impact.

​It certainly impacted me.

By Kevin Leininger 
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
March 2, 2019

​“Every time I look at you I don’t understand
Why you let the things you did get so far out hand.
You’d have managed better if you’d had it planned.
Why’d you choose such a backward time in such a strange land?
If you’d come today you could have reached a whole nation.
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.”

Tim Rice’s lyrics from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar may be bad theology — the passion Christians are about to observe was precisely what God had in mind — but Judas had a point about the failure to proclaim the faith in the most accessible way.

Converting missed opportunity into effective ministry is the mission of former professional communicator and current Southern Baptist seminarian Christopher Mann, whose upcoming “ReSermon Institute” aims to help pastors and others “expand the potential audience of their sermons in order to increase listenership, foot traffic, membership, revenue and, ultimately, higher missional impact.”

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For Immediate Release
February 6, 2019
Media: Contact Christopher Mann at (m/t) 260.508.3136 or Chris.Mann@ReSermon.com. 

​FORT WAYNE -- ReSermon Institute announced a new seminar to teach pastors how to expand a church’s audience by making sermon content accessible, searchable and projectable. On March 15, 2019, seven renown experts in communications and ministry will convene at Pathway Community Church to offer a day-long series of classes dedicated to helping ministry leaders better understand:

• how to make sermons accessible to the deaf, the hard-of-hearing and members of the disabled community;
• how to make sermons searchable by Googlers and Bingers; and
• how to make sermons projectable by repurposing sermon content into blog posts, editorials, books and more.

The day’s teaching team includes:
(link to online biographies: http://www.resermon.com/rsi-faculty.html)

• Rev. Donovan Coley:  Emcee and Moderator
• Christopher Mann: Co-Founder, ReSermon Institute
• Mark Mellinger: Weekend news anchor for WATE in Knoxville, Tenn. and former anchor at WANE Channel 15.
• Rev. Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr: Pastor, theologian, author of ten books and former resident scholar at Ligonier Ministries.
• Dr. Les Sillars: Professor of Journalism at Patrick Henry College, Purceville, VA; Associate Editor for World Magazine; Contributor to the World and Everything In It daily podcast.
• Curt Smith: President of the Indiana Family Institute and author of two books.
• Carl and Bev Moellering: founders of Moellering Culture.
• Jason Hamrock: CEO of Missional Marketing.

 
The seminar is open to pastors, staff and ministry leaders involved in helping their respective ministries serve the greater northern Indiana and Ohio communities. Tickets are $20 early bird, and $25 at the door.

• What: ReSermon Institute.
• Where: Pathway Community Church, 11910 Shearwater Run, Fort Wayne, IN 46845.
• When: Friday, March 15, 2019, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• For whom: Pastors, staff, ministry leaders and advocates for greater sermon audience accessibility.
• How much: $20 early bird through 3/1/19. $25 at the door.

By Christopher Mann
For ReSermon.com

I am not aware of a church that intentionally hosts pornography. 

​I am aware of many churches who have changed their URL from www.OldChurchDomain.com to the new and improved www.CoolerChurchDomain.com, and then let OldChurchDomain.com lapse into the open market of URLs, where anybody can buy it. Usually, business-minded folks will scoop up these kinds of URLs because they're betting that among the 1,000 or so discarded URLs they buy, there are a sufficient number of former owners who just forgot to renew these domains, and they're willing to pay the (legal) scalping fees of $3,000, $5,000, $10,000 or more to get those URLs back. It may sound slimy, but they're playing by the rules, and its all legal.

But there are many wicked businesses who buy these discarded domains for keeps and push massive amounts of porn. So for years to come, these sites are hosting and hooking new generations of porn addicts. If we're upset with factories polluting cities with toxic "brown fields" after decades of use, we're also upset with the short-sighted churches empowering pornographers to leave brown fields on the internet. 

Action

1. When you change your website to CoolerChurchDomain.com, please keep the old domain. Do everybody a favor and just keep eternally paying the $10 annual fee required to retain legal possession of OldChurchDomain.com. Think of it as taking your entire community out to Starbucks for a year.
2. Place a redirect on that old domain so that it redirects traffic to CoolerChurchDomain.com. That way, you get the ongoing benefit from your old name's traffic forever. 

​Media: Contact Christopher Mann at (m/t) 260.508.3136 or Institute@ReSermon.com. 

Institute will teach pastors, staff and volunteers how to repurpose sermon content into blogs, books and more for deeper ministry impact.

Fort Wayne—ReSermon Institute announced a new seminar to teach pastors how to repurpose sermon content into other media like podcasts, editorials, social media posts, books and more. The seminar is open to pastors, staff and volunteers involved in helping their respective ministries serve the greater northern Indiana and Ohio communities.

• What: ReSermon Institute, “Repurposing Sermon Content into the Public Square.”
• Presenter: Christopher Mann, Founder, ReSermon.com. 
• Where: St Joe Community Church, 2900 North Anthony Blvd., Fort Wayne.
• When: Friday, November 9, 2018, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 
• For whom: Pastors, staff and volunteers.
• How much: $15 for lunch courtesy of Chick-Fil-A and complimentary ReSermon resources.
• For more information and registration: http://www.resermon.com/resermon-institute.html. 

​“I am extremely grateful to ReSermon for helping us multiply the impact of our weekly worship.  As a pastor who only uses outlines to preach, ReSermon creates the transcript for me, which makes it much easier to expand the reach of my message in many forms and places. People are accessing our audio files weekly, and we are already hearing that first-time worship guests have listened to sermons before deciding to attend. St Joe Community Church is excited to host Fort Wayne’s first ReSermon Institute on November 9th!” – Greg Byman, Senior Pastor, St Joe Community Church. 

About ReSermon.com 
ReSermon repurposes sermon or lecture content into the public square. ReSermon is not a social media platform or dot-com automation service. Rather, we are writers, editors, publicists and other creatives who help pastors extend and leverage their preached Word of God into a diversity of online and print formats for maximum optimal ministry impact. ReSermon.com turns a sermon, lecture, radio show, or the like into podcasts, vlogcasts, blog posts, social media posts, editorials, books and more. In 2018, ReSermon.com begins sponsoring periodic ReSermon Institute seminars that focus on aspects of sermon repurposing. To sign up for the ReSermon.com newsletter or learn more about an Institute near you, see below. ​

By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com

Preach. 
​Just keep doing what you're doing. See, you're already off to a good start.

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