OSMinistry (The Open Source Ministry Project) is a great website for people interested in the use of modern-day technology by churches and ministries. I just discovered a relatively new forum on their site (their forums are great in general, by the way!) called Blogs and Blogging.
Within that forum, there is a discussion about a church (Jacob’s Well in Kansas City, Missouri) that hosts and aggregates the blogs of its members. See this page on their site to see their aggregation of blog posts.
There is such great potential here for conveying the authentic voice of their community to unbelievers in their local area (and beyond). So many church websites are limited to service times, program descriptions, staff bios, etc. While these things may be necessary (I’m not entirely convinced myself), they certainly don’t convey a complete, authentic voice. Because what really makes up our churches is our people, and we need to relate their stories to the unbelieving community if we ever expect to draw unbelievers to Christ.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
