The Church 2.0

I am reading about the Church and Twitter at Time: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1895463,00.html

I am intrigued by this use of Twitter in worship. What happens when the Church becomes the Church 2.0? What happens when people can talk back during worship?

Will twittering help the Church to be more responsive? It certainly has the potential to radically change how we imagine Church. The Church is systemically hierarchical and new social media may have the potential to deconstruct that hierarchy. When people have the capacity and the invitation to participate at all levels of the Church, then a radical new community may indeed be born.

People may begin to expect to have a voice in places where they have traditionally be silent. The Church 2.0 would be an interactive Church where everyone has the potential to participate and all voices may be heard. It would not be a fixed unchanging entity but rather one that each person contributes to and "edits", for the building up of the whole community. In the Church 2.0 the Word is not static - the Word is living.

Time also has an article on how Twitter will change the way we live: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html

Maybe they have a point - maybe this Twitter thing isn't just a new fad, maybe it is a radical new way being....