Christianity as a People Movement
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.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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/
May 6th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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
May 8th, 2008 at 12:08 am
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…
May 27th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Not only did you quote yourself, but did you Google yourself to find that post at Praxis, as well? Double cripes!?!?!