technology snacks & ministry

i have been enjoying reading wired latest cover story on "snack culture." the premise is that we have become less and less needy on the full products, from smaller cookies, sliced songs, shorter movies, smaller screens,.. etc. we have moved into a snack culture. (check out the format of the article if nothing else)

this has me thinking.. what is this type of culture shifts impact on the church? will ministries have to snack size to appeal to newer audiences? do we keep to or intentionally shift to a "full meal" of the good news?

if we do snack size items associated with our ministry what will they be? scripture teachings? preaching? worship? discipleship?

could it be a good thing to snack the good news? as essentially what is happening is that we are trimming down to the absolutely needed amounts... hmmm

Comments

[Wayne]

Aren't we already having to deal with the effects of "snack sizing" the Good News as it is? How do we emphasize the Eucharist in anything less than a full meal? How can we participate in a heavenly banquet when we're full of Cheez Whiz and pretzels?

Just wondering...

[Jay C.]

Some would argue that "contemporary" worship is already a snack size...

[Art]

I agree - in many cases we've already snack-sized the Gospel.

[Dalton]

How can we trim the Gospel to its absolutely needed amounts? We need all of it--that's the problem. And I'm not talking about some literalist, inerrant way of looking at the Bible. Regardless of whether we think every word is literally true (and whether we consider context to be relevant in this way), it is ALL "absolutely needed."

I wonder if the church, then, is incompatible with contemporary culture. And I wonder what Barth would say about this--because juxtaposing Christ and culture doesn't exactly work when nobody's listening.