Saturday, October 4



Downloading spiritual product
I've blogged off and on about the missional task of the church today, in a postmodern world, being to distribute spiritual product.

Myargument is that if society today has become individualised, and if consumption is now a primary way by which people confer meaning, then part of Incarnational mission is to co-operate with these routes of meaning by entreprenuerially offering what nourishes us inside the church for the world.

I've had a variety of reactions; from selling out to,
well, to selling out.

Every now and again I see an example of what I dream of. Two New Zealanders have just released a free download on the internet. With a budget of $800 they created a movie for the internet. It's 15 minutes long. It was shot on a Sony Handycam. It is a 170 or 135 megabyte download. It has been downloaded 70,000 times, over 3.3 terabytes of data.

This makes it New Zealand's most successful film. For $800, for doing a good job, being creative and offering it on the net. That's our future people. That's offering creative product to the world.

So when is the emerging church going to stop accusing me of selling out, and start thinking about what creative spiritual product we can offer the world.

When are we going to create good enough video loops, that 70,000 people will download them for free.

For more read here.

posted by STeve | 4:45 PM | |