Found this via the Emergent Village blog. Think it'll work?
Greetings denizens of the Internet. My name is Rob, and I’m performing an experiment. Can the collective intelligence of the ‘Net produce a preachable sermon? Maybe the digital age is incompatible with such an ancient format. Then again, maybe the lurker will join hands with the hacker and usher in an age of peace and enlightenment. Maybe I’m just lazy and want some free content and editing.
The topic of the sermon will be: the body of Christ in a digital age.
Jump over to Emergent Village for more info.
It's a fascinating concept. In my mind, collaboration on sermons could be a tremendously good thing. Imagine being able to combine the minds of the greatest theologians for your sermon.
Other thoughts?
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It seems that day by day the preacher is moving away from the Holy Spirit lead sermon.
"Not by might nor by power... but by my Spirit." (Zech. 4:6)
The preacher now depends on technologies which is totally opposite of the Holy Spirit which is alive - Spirit of God.
I believe that this technologies or machines or computer era will have alias during the Tribulation era and is called 666 ...
My main disappointment is that the preacher nowadays is getting lazier and so busy. These effect the preachers time to prepare their sermon. As a results, they will find an easy way to prepare the message, surfing the web site for collective sermons, and find the one that the preacher wants to preach ... This collective sermons website is 'the' problem the culprit that is tempting the preachers to fall away ...
Isn't this way WRONG? Isn't the right way should be Holy Spirit lead sermon? Let the Holy Spirit speak to and prepare the preacher for the Sunday sermon ...
Thus to answer your question, there is no problem to use technoloy for the message "delivery", but never use technology to prepare the sermon. "Not by might nor by power ... but by my Spirit" in preparing the sermon. Otherwise, the sermon may look alive but it is actually dead because the Holy Spirit is not in it ...
But pardon me if I misunderstood the main topic here in my first response
A clarifying question: where should we draw the line in not using technology to write sermons? Just no computers? No pencils? No paper?
"This collective sermons website is 'the' problem the culprit that is tempting the preachers to fall away ..."
How so, do you think the Holy Spirit ever uses other people to teach to us?
It is our own freewill choice, led by Holy Spirit or by others in preparing the Sunday sermon or even in any type of Christian ministries ...