Andrew Jones, otherwise known in the blogosphere as Tall Skinny Kiwi, is not only having a big impact on the emerging church through asking and developing community on line, he's also using old fashioned methods of connecting a face to face community through traveling and participating in conversations like the one I was part of last night.
Knowing for a couple of weeks now that we were going to gather a bunch of Silicon Valley tech geeks and missional minded ministers I was looking forward to this gathering at "Toyland" which is the home of Netscape instigator Michael Toy. My friend and developer of Planning Center, Jeff Berg flew up from Southern California to attend the causal gathering on the date of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthday making this a night of homage to the Lord of the Rings. I also felt if I was going to join in a conversation with one of the church's top bloggers I should be reading his blog. I discovered Andrew is well read and connected and can help me understand the role of emerging technologies for the purpose of emerging ministries.
Last night Andrew mentioned that we are in a time where people will write more than they read calling this Generation Text. I'm curious by this because although it may forward creativity it could create avenues leading nowhere. At the same time we are in a time where online nonsense can be easily exposed and corrected.
I feel good to be part of a community of bloggers who's message truly has value and that we're talking about what it can lead to. May our medium follow, as someone said last night, the effective means by which the world is brought humbly down to size as the individual gains his voice in an playing field that is truly level for anyone staring into the 10/24 window.
Blog on!
