'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events How Internet Innovations Are Changing The Way We Do Church
[IndyChristian Ed. Note... The following article comes via a publication primarily serving mainline congregations. As a result, it may well represent sentiments of those surfing the backside of the wave, so to speak. But that's a significant audience all of us hope to include in our neighborhood churches... yes? So it's an interesting and well-written article, perhaps measuring the middle-point of the Innovation Adoption Curve. Enjoy. (ht: DJChuang, Leadership Network]
by Andrea Useem
It’s no longer news that the Internet has ushered in a digital revolution, reshaping everything from the business landscape to social relationships to personal habits. Our world today is profoundly new. And in these transformations, nothing is sacred. Just as newspapers find themselves spiraling downward and corporations scramble to find an authentic online presence, so religious congregations are seriously impacted by the expansion of digital life. Yes, congregations have a unique purpose and mission, existing for divine purposes that can’t be quantified or confined, but in the human realm, in the material world where the congregation plants its feet on the ground, change is sprouting up through the floorboards. These developments are challenging congregations to consider what it means to be a geographically rooted, brick-and-mortar congregation in a world of virtual cathedrals and online prayer groups, where intimate spiritual connection is possible at any time of day or night.
To make sense of how technology and church intersect, it’s important to understand how the newest iterations of the Internet...
[continued at Alban Institute]
'INNOVATIVE' tags
posted by IndyChristian @ 9:54 AM
WGNR 97.9
More Video Tags
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home