Do We Insist On Being Last?
January 7th, 2009 Categories: Technology for Pastors
I was just sitting and thinking how practically every business in the world has embraced blogging as a way to enhance personal communication, boost marketing efforts, and just plain revolutionize web presence throughout the land. Why does the Church insist upon being the last entity to embrace any particular phenomenon?
Take rock music, for example. The world began rocking some time in the middle of the century, but the church only began accepting guitars and distortion in the mid nineties. Maybe a little earlier, but certainly not as part of the main stream of worship influence.
What we don’t realize is that the technology currently exists to connect prophetic voices from throughout the land, offer them the ability to share ideas and prophetic insight in real time, and create a vetted, coherent, prophetic message for the world at large to view. And, we can do it all with one website. I’ve already explained that in detail elsewhere, but the truth remains that it is possible.
What would it take to totally revolutionize the way that prophetic people communicate? It would take two to three national prophetic voices who are willing to give it a try.
We Build Blogs
[...] I have to openly repent: I originally thought Twitter was a total waste of time. Now, having seen the “light” as it were, I’ve decided that there are some potential uses for twitter that can help mobilize the prophetic army of God’s people. That is, if the church will ever get on board before the technology becomes obsolete. We have a habit of being late adopters. [...]