A video by Problogger Darren Rowse on how churches can use social media to impact their communities. Some commentary by Andrew Jones. View video here.

Darren warns about the danger of abusing the internet to build up our own ministries rather than helping people find God and find community. He suggests we:

1. Go into other people’s worlds and websites

2. Build our strategy on listening to the culture of the internet and responding to it appropriately.

Darren’s video reminded me of 2 scenarios: the Tower of Babel, where people tried to make a name for themselves [wrong move] and Mount Zion, God’s holy mountain, where God brings people organically and without ego [bloggers take note] to be built into a new temple for God’s purposes, stone by stone, pixel by pixel.