Dave’s WordPress Blog » How RSS can bust through

It must be easy to find relevant feeds. Too much hunt and peck is involved. The reason My.Yahoo and iTunes have been successful is that they centralize a lot of the discovery, they make it easy to find stuff you might be interested in.

Absolutely. And it is here that the Church 2.0 can gain big-time. When RSS hits it big (or bigger, depending on where you rate the success of RSS so far) this is where I see churches discovering much more of the rich array of gifted ministers we have amongst our number, and becoming more consistently connected with the things that are being done, being said, and being told. If evangelism is “good news”, then anything which gives us more exposure to the “good news” amongst us is downright evangelistic.

And as for the traditional sense of evangelism: that of “bringing others to Christ”, I believe that the stories from those on the fronts of the Kingdom is the most powerful form of “information evangelism”, even though it does take some face-to-face reprentatives of this same good news to link these stories to what can happen in our own back yard, or maybe even what IS happening in our own back yard without our knowing it, and it took a story from someone online to alert us to God’s activity in our “back yard”.

When people who care about issues of human importance, and find that there are church folks who do this as a ministry and a mission, there are former opponents or cynics of the church who had dismissed the church due to a perceived irrelevance who get a dose of good news.