According to Tim Elmore @ Growing Leaders, this has been a decade of change. As he looks back over the decade he muses over the impact the last 10 years have had on our society:
- The introduction of the IPOD has changed how we get music
- The war on terror was waged on 9/11 and changed how we travel
- Life is faster and more detailed than ever before due to high speed internet, HD tv, wii, blu-ray
- Distance education has changed how we do school
His complete list goes on to name 11 significant events (I'm not counting his short rant on the Red Sox)or changes that have impacted what we think or do or expect. We listen to any song title (and lots of church messages and sermons) when and where we want. We pack differently and expect to have someone frisk us at the airport. We're now used to the sharpest of definition in whatever we're watching and we can go back to school halfway across the country without leaving our sofa.
If we've changed how we travel and watch and learn, how about how we do church? What impact has the last 10 yrs had on what we do and how we do it? Have we paid attention to the changes in social networking, changes in technology, changes in expectations on the part of our congregants?
So tell us what you think.
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