I was browsing around the world wide web today and ran across a podcast of a presentation I did at the Emerging Church for the Existing Church conference over at the Praxis Podcast.
In describing the presentation they posted a pull-quote from my talk. I remember saying this in the fly and thinking at the time – man, I liked that.
Then someone asked me to repeat it and I tried, so I am not sure if this is from the repeat or the first time, but I like it none the less.
Not only do I like it I think in some ways it represents a great opportunity and challenge for Christianity in our day.
“I think that Christianity is fundamentally a people movement that we should understand in social networking theory, not a belief system that we distribute through institutional applications and franchising models.”
So, now it is official – I actually quoted myself on my own blog – cripes.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself… but I sure can try.
http://johnohara.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/web20-and-the-dynamic-church-community/
I’m not entirely sure how we’re supposed to do this yet, what with Conversations 2.0 and all, but I liked the quote in this post. Even if it was of yourself. So if I want to respond, am I supposed to do it here, or on my own blogspace? I suppose you see what I decided:
http://kidwonder.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-churches-as-social-networks.html
I get the idea of what you are saying but I wonder if you might unpack it a little more. Maybe you do this in the podcast and I just need to listen to that. But if you would be so kind…
Not only did you quote yourself, but did you Google yourself to find that post at Praxis, as well? Double cripes!?!?!
That is hilarious! Thanks for the link to the Praxis Podcast, as well. i would love to interview you sometime for it when you might have some time. I would love to do it in person, but Skype would be a nice alternative. Thanks man! And yeah it was great meeting you @ this conference!