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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
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Whoa man! Some real "stickin' it to 'em/us" from Jordon Cooper in these three posts (this one and the two before/below it):
I wonder if the reason that churches are afraid to engaged in the online discussion is that we know how unattractive our churches are to the new generation of postmodern church attenders and instead of facing that and fixing it, we would just rather bury our head in the sand and leave it to the next person who pastors the church. As long as the church keeps focusing on unconnected builders and boomers, the harder the paradigm shift to those who are a part of the digital culture is going to be.
9:58:24 PM 
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Excellent point. I have also found myself shaking my head when I see the Church passing up the oppotunities to participate in REAL conversations. (I say REAL, because much of what we do now, IN THE CHURCH meetings, is not conversation at all. I have not felt known at all via traditional Church channels and activities in , oh, 11 or 12 years. Jordon continues:
People online aren't real because they don't sit in our pews, they don't help our numbers in our denominational reports, and they rarely tithe (although I believe people will give to a community they find compelling enough to give to).
9:54:12 PM
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Great Stuff from Jordon Cooper:
...This hits at what I think is the root of why the church fears the web. Many churches generally won't allow individuals the freedom to create compelling content and enter into a conversation. Churches aren't friendly to conversation. The worship is lead from the worship leader. The sermon is prepared and presented by the pastor. The congregation watches. It is one way communication. Early on when I was fooling around online I was apart of a mailing list that was hosted by Ginghamsburg Church's web team. Around forty or fifty of us would talk about web ministry and help each other out. One of the topics that kept coming up was how do we fit the web team into the traditional command and control structure of the church and have content approved and things properly vetted. The church didn't trust anyone to create any content. It needed a committee to make sure it was all okay. It was before the Cluetrain Manifesto was out and articulated it for us but it was true, organizations can't have a conversation and I think organizations also fear the individual....
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