My friend Neil Cox has started a very interesting project: ModelChurch.com. This website presents a fictitious church in a fictitious neighborhood community.
The stated purpose of the ModelChurch.com website, from Neil’s IndyChristian website:
Church-leaders are often asking us these days how to start building out a free, easy, team-oriented set of highly-functional websites. So we’ve started fleshing-out that question, starting with a ‘model church’ website for discussion.... We call it “Model Church.com”. From there we’ll be linking off to sites of our people in that neighborhood or community. In fact, it’s more than that—you might say we’re using the internet to centrally sketch out a model of some basics that reflect what ANY LOCAL CHURCH might start looking like in reality… given the increasingly ‘connected’ nature of the local Church body.
Very interesting and something to keep an eye on.
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.
