One of the questions that came up last week at our Vestry day away was, “Where is the internal discourse of the congregation going on?”
It was a good question and interestingly, several of those present said that the internal discourse of the congregation was partly going on here on this blog. I agree with that, it is, though of course, it is not internal and not limited by the happenchance of time and circumstance in the ways that it once would have been. Once upon a time, someone would at that point of the discussion asked, “What is this blog thing people keep talking about?” but that was not to be last week. We seem to have moved beyond that to the question, “But doesn’t that leave some people out of the loop who don’t/won’t use new technology?”
The answer to that is of course that it does leave such people out of the loop. But then people forget that old technology – for example, sitting around in one place at one time, also excluded a lot of people. One day we will have to choose whether or not organise special ministries to those who who are realitybound in the same way that we once ministered to the housebound.
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