Google ImageThe Vatican, after dissenting just a year ago- is attempting to link the church and it's young followers through facebook and iphone applications. So aside from some initial thoughts of his poor politics- (with flip flopping on the issue)- and dismissing all comparisons of him to Diddy's pointless tweets, I remain disturbed with the idea of linking technology and church. I mean the religious rule book referenced is about a couple thousand years old. Somethings I'm just not so comfortable 'upgrading'.
So I'm not catholic, but I am Christian- and the thought of my pastor just sort of feeding his scriptures to my iphone disturbs me. My church family is just that to me- family, and I certainly wouldn't want to have a family reunion through facebook. To be quite honest- I have began to rely on facebook as the sole communication with many of my friends and we rarely talk on the phone or meet for coffee. So while I've accepted this with them, it's not what I'd like my relationship with my church to turn into. Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of those responsible for the site, said himself that 'If a church does not communicate then it ceases to be a church'- I find it rather ironic that they have accepted sending bits of a previous speech on facebook postcards as communication. Perhaps they have given up on being a church.
I think many things can be advanced and improved and modified- but the establishments of God aren't included. Matthew 16:18 "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Now if the church was established to withstand the gates of hell, I'm sure it will survive a technology wave. So while I access my bible from my iphone and even take notes in church on it- I think to better the relationship between young people and the church is going to require a relationship! Not facebook postcards, but true communication as Tighe mentioned as a requirement of the very establishment.
- S. Bryant
