A recent discovery: Ryan Bolger proffessor at Fuller has filled theBolgBlog with amazing and insightful reads connecting the Emerging Church Movement and Communication Technology into one place.
A recent entry of his introduced 44 new blogs as a result of his Transforming Contemporary Culture class. Each student was required to begin or add to their own blog and resulting collective work for this “paperless” course is posted as a remaining/growing work.
Two other resources from this blog which caught me to read were his “Snapshot of the Emerging Church” and the “Web as Prophetic Critique of the Church”
Here are a couple of quotes from these resources.
Critique:
What might the church learn from the web? Any modern church leader is trained to maintain control over the whole process of what we know as church, manifesting most specifically in the maintenance of order. Our church authors/producers/leaders are not prepared to release the text/church service/way of life to the readers/consumers/members. None of their training has prepared them for this…
TheBolgBlog: The Web as Prophetic Critique to the Church?
Snapshot:
Leading is not fixed around the single leader — leaders lead, but the single leader leading all things is anathema. Those who are gifted to lead particular activities, because of their passion, expertise, or wisdom, are able to do so without restraint. A move in the direction of consensus and shared leadership occurs.
The spiritual has to do with all of life and not simply with acts of devotion. Thus, there is an embrace of those pre-modern and pre-Reformation practices that recognize God’s work everywhere, not simply in the quiet time or worship service.
My own thoughts:1. This is very refreshing material.
2. The result of such thinking may not be all that predictable.
3. There is reason to think that studying culture, people and communication is a good thing for today’s follower of Jesus to do…
More of this where it came from,
Tim
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