The Wiki Church

As you may know, Vice-Moderator Landon Whitsitt has published a book titled "Open Source Church: Making Room for the Wisdom of All." In a post on the Alban Institute's website, he talks about the prevalence of Wikipedia and how its concept can be related to churches:

Anyone anywhere can log on to the Internet and edit the world’s largest encyclopedia. They can contribute to the “sum of all human knowledge,” as Wikipedia describes it. They can offer their gifts of knowledge to the world and to generations to come. Yet we expect them to walk into our churches and simply take what’s handed to them and do it the way we say they should? I don’t think so.

Whitsitt goes on to talk about the disconnects between creative worship at conferences and traditional worship in churches, as well as the difference between Wikipedia and its closed-source predecessor, Nupedia. [Alban Institute]

Update: Here's a video of Landon unboxing his Open Source Church book!