Sep 6th, 2007
Christian Mind Mapping Round-Up
This article, which appeared in Prodigal Son magazine, is a nice, brief overview of the process of mind mapping.
Mind mapping is a technique that organizes your thoughts and ideas into a visual map or diagram that is easier to process. It can be quite useful in brainstorming or problem solving, and some pastors, like Ed Young, use it to organize their sermons. If you would like to learn how to mind map, Innovation Network offers the following 8 easy steps to mind mapping.
It is a reprint of an older article in the Church Relevance weblog. I found another article on Church Relevance pointing to bubble.us as a tool that may be used fororganizing sermons and ideas, with an example of a mind map created in bubble.us. Theres a similar, more recent article about using bubble.us in the context of a church service at the Church 2.0 weblog with a really nice example of how a bubble.us map may be embedded into a web page.
The Church Relevance article mentions Pastor Ed Young, who makes his incredible sermon mind maps available for sale to other pastors and interested parties. He links to some examples in this article from a while back.
It would be nice to see more of this sort of thing. Spirituality, with its vast and endless ontology of ideas, texts, and values is an ideal area to apply visual thinking to.
