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When it comes to publishing, social media, and the church, Steve Knight knows what he\u2019s talking about:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been working full-time on the Web (in one shape or form) for over a decade now, and it\u2019s been fun to watch the language of it evolve from \u201cinteractive\u201d to \u201cmultimedia\u201d to \u201cWeb 2.0\u2033 to \u201csocial media.\u201d The radical shifts in culture that have taken place because of the Internet have been astounding.<\/p>\n

At the same time, there\u2019s been a similar shaking going on in Christianity, and I\u2019ve noticed a similar evolution of language for what to call this too \u2014 from \u201calternative church\u201d to \u201calternative worship\u201d to \u201cancient-future worship\u201d to \u201cemerging church\u201d to \u201cmissional church\u201d and now \u201cmissional community formation.\u201d<\/p>\n

I predict the conversation about tech lingo will continue to parallel \u2014 and deeply inform \u2014 the conversation about Christianity and church (how we organize ourselves into religious\/faith communities), just as the revolution sparked by the evolution of the Internet is re-making other sectors of society, such as education, journalism, and publishing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

READ THE REST\u00a0Recap: The Language of Participatory Church | knightopia.com | the online home of Steve Knight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to publishing, social media, and the church, Steve Knight knows what he\u2019s talking about: I\u2019ve been working full-time on the Web (in one shape or form) for over a decade now, and it\u2019s been fun to watch the language of it evolve from \u201cinteractive\u201d to \u201cmultimedia\u201d to \u201cWeb 2.0\u2033 to \u201csocial media.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[825],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-in-america","category-emergent-church","tag-steve-knight"],"yoast_head":"\nSteve Knight Lauds the Language of Participatory Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When it comes to publishing, social media, and the church, Steve Knight knows what he's talking about: I\u2019ve been working 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