Off The Map Idealab | November 2007 | Issue 0711

Discover The Power Of Like

By Jim Henderson

We love slogans. Here's one of our favorites. "When people like each other the rules change"
Call me stupid, lazy or old but...No more intellectual frontal assaults for me - they take too long and cost too much relationally.
At Off The Map Live we managed to get people who typically don't talk... (Blue/Red/Gay/Straight/Rich/Poor/Christian/Atheist/Evangelical/Mainline/Black/White/Oppressed/Oppressor) in the same room to explore what dialog looks like in a world gone different.

Everybody felt like an outsider at least once (which we consider a mark of success)
And many people learned to like someone they had formerly been suspect of.
And when people like each other the rules change

Discover the power of like

O My God - Did I just like THAT person??

By Randy Siever

It was incredible, but it was nearly too much. INTENSE in ways that I have never felt intensity...not like stressed out, grit your teeth with a headache intensity, but relational, mind-blowing, OH MY GOD DID I JUST LIKE THAT PERSON??? kind of amazement and wonder and awe intensity. Read more...

The Jim and Casper DVD

You've read the book. Now watch Jim and Casper talk about their experience reviewing America's mega and mini churches. Great for small group discussions and sermon illustrations.

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Working the Room at Off The Map Live

By Pam Hogeweide

As soon as we hit the door I could feel the power of the schmooze going on. Familiar and new faces clustered around the foyer amid a soundtrack of cheerful chatter. Over the next two days I spent at least half of my time hanging out at the freebie coffee bar set up in the lobby and the other half in auditoriums. Big room sessions with big name people are the bread and butter of any conference event, but schmoozing is the heart and soul. Read more...

We were fortunate to have several leaders and thinkers from minority groups join us.
They talked about what it feels like to be marginalized and some took us to task for being elitist.

Two Conservative Evangelicals At Off The Map Live

Tony Steward and Kerry Mackey record their first impressions of Off The Map Live.
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