Check this out: ChurchCrunch.com is leading a group blogging project where several writers are going to walk through Shane Hipp’s Flickering Pixels chapter by chapter. And yours truly gets to tackle chapter seven, “A Thousand Feelings”.
Let’s dissect that for a moment:
ChurchCrunch.com is one of my five or six daily must-reads. Their official tagline is “Exploring the Intersection of Church and Technology” and the site and its forum have been very helpful in challenging the way I’m thinking about using technology and the internet both in Greenhouse and in the larger Evanston Vineyard.
ChurchCrunch put together a team of folks to take on Shane Hipp’s Flickering Pixels, which Zondervan sums up as:
“The methods change, but the message stays the same.” This saying is the guiding light for faithful Christians in a changing world. But author Shane Hipps reveals the error in this thinking. Instead he demonstrates how changing the methods always changes the message. He shows us the hidden power of technology to shape our faith in unexpected ways.
And that’s a good start, but it pretty quickly lays out its initial premise and begins unpacking all sorts of ways modern culture has impacted the way we do church. It’s challenging and well-written, and should move near the top of your to-read list if that topic sounds at all interesting to you.
The project starts June 8 at ChurchCrunch and will feature 16 other fantastic bloggers. I’ll let you know when my post goes live. I’ll also be participating in the conversation throughout the project at ChurchCrunch, and invite you to as well. If anything particularly compelling comes up, I’ll post some of my responses to spur some more conversation on Harbinger of Soul.
(By the way, Shane Hipps is also one of the three main teachers at Poets, Prophets, Preachers in July, along with Rob Bell and Peter Rollins. Which my wife and I are going to, and have an extra ticket, good for two people, which we’d love to sell to someone. E-mail me for more details)
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