Gavin pointed to an interesting post, re-invigorating of my “theoblogizing” ways—-how the “Open Source”, “Cluetrain-like” thinking and Christian communities serious about living life in depth with an eye to intense formation—-all that kind of stuff. This is a post to remind me to look in depth to this in the morning as I start my day. Thanks for the pointer Gav! I need to dig back into my older Theoblogical , Online Community, Virtual Community, and Cluetrain category archives, and maybe even further back into the first thoughts I had on Church and Online resources back in the early days of the public web (1993-98) when I was hasing this stuff out in the Ecunet community.
Church 2.0 . . . a missional ecclesiastic response to a culture influenced by the values of Web 2.0
Emerging Church 2.0 might be those emerging churches that are shaped by new media values rather than old media. They write blog posts rather than articles, PDFs rather than books, start churches without buildings, and lack a vertically hierarchical leadership structure. Hierarchy is modular and dynamic, rather than vertical and static. I am not talking about cyberchurches that migrate to the web. I am talking about alternative faith communities that emerge online and then seek physical meetings, new aggregations of believers that connect with each other and the world through the complex networks that make up their World 2.0