[Magdalen] community and the internet

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Susan, I agree this is a wonderful sermon!  Thank you for sharing it.

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Technology is just a small part of this but I love what Nadia has to
> say about this text:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/m6jpqeq
>
> Susan
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Interesting timing, Marilyn, because this was actually the focus of my
> sermon last Sunday in connection with the Gospel. Jesus talks about taking
> grievances first to the individual, then with a witness from the church,
> then with several members, etc.  I said Jesus was not talking about using
> email!
> > I've been putting out small fires caused by emails ever since I became
> interim five months ago, and two weeks ago there was a conflagration, and
> I'd had it. So I was already planning to address it in terms of its
> detrimental effect on the church, and I was delighted to see the Gospel
> passage!
> > But for at least the last five years, and especially in churches where
> I've spent any amount of time, email has caused greater or lesser
> disruption; some folks have even left over messages, especially messages
> that are sent out to the entire congregation or an entire committee.
> > Technology has provided us with so many ways to avoid actual
> face-to-face engagement, and as members of the Body of Christ we need to
> reclaim that engagement.
> >
> > So, while email and FaceBook can, indeed build community--and this list
> is a good example of that--it can also destroy community--and at times this
> list has been a good example of that, as well.
> >
> >> On Sep 10, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> In book group today someone said they wondered if the internet would be
> the
> >>> downfall of community in churches. My response was that it may
> challenge us
> >>> into new ways of understanding and defining community, group,
> >>> caring, intimacy, and ministry. I should add knowing to the list. I
> have
> >>> "known" many of you far more years than my current church mates. You
> all
> >>> have ministered to me and prayed for me and mine as I have tried to do
> for
> >>> you.
> >>
> >>
> >> I do not believe the internet is a problem but rather an incredible
> >> resource if we meet the challenge of incorporating it into how we do
> >> ministry!
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Marilyn Palmero Cepeda
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Marilyn Cepeda
>
>
>
> --
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Marilyn Cepeda