Mission in a Hyper-Connected Media Flooded World By Keith Williams Denne artikel indledes med en historie om mission i en rutebil ved hjælp af en mobiltelefon. Keith Williams peger herefter på fire ”digitale” udfordringer: Teknologien forandrer os, massekommunikation må afløses af interaktive strategier, digitale medier udnyttes til overvågning, og de teknologiske muligheder kan blive en afgud. To ”digitale” muligheder drøftes dernæst: at skabe forbindelse til mennesker og at virke som forstærker for det kristne budskab. Kirke og mission bør gribe disse muligheder, og Williams præsenterer fire konkrete redskaber hertil. Han konkluderer: Gud er ikke afhængig af teknologi, og det skal vi heller ikke være; men Gud er heller ikke forskrækket over den teknologiske udvikling, og det skal vi heller ikke være.
Returning home
worked out that the lady sitting next to
The following story comes from a
me was illiterate, her phone book was
co-worker, Jill, who serves in one of
full of pictures rather than names. No
the “least developed” countries in the
point going for something text-based!
world, a place where internet penetra-
The bus sound system was blasting out
tion stands at only 6%.1 That statistic
local music so I had to come up with
would dissuade most from conside-
something special to do the trick. I’m
ring digital ministry there but, as you
glad that I have a big phone screen,
will see, statistics clearly don’t tell the
so I put on a video, a song with Arabic
whole story. The truth is that we and
subtitles. I only popped one ear bud
the majority of the least reached live in
in, because I wanted to be aware of
a digital media saturated world today:
the reactions around me. It didn’t take
“After being away for a conference it was great to get on the bus for the last leg of my journey home. Bus journeys are good times to get out my phone and start connecting. I had already
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long. The lady behind me spotted the writing and said to her neighbor (who then almost dove over the back of the seat and into my lap), ‘look the white lady has the Quran.’ For many illiterate
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