Imagine a church where your pastor is in another city and the sermon is "broadcast" to the various campuses. Imagine a church where the garage band (not the "modern" but still melodious music that you may hear on K-Love (a US Christian radio station) today) is the worship music. Imagine a church where the Bible is on everyone's iPhone and everyone can annotate and comment on both the pastor's interpretation and each other's comments, much like a Wiki. Imagine a church where the call to get real, go deep, and re-write communion, the Body and community as an scuba dive immersion into the psyche where AA resembles this next generation as much as the Mustang convertible resembles the Conestoga covered wagon... Now imagine that this is only scratching the surface of what church is evolving into...
What do you think the next generation of church will be?
Which of these colors of spirituality will this be reflected in?
If you look at music where the focus isn't on the beauty but on the "realness" of the music and where human failings are both accommodated in the music and expected as part of it. Where music isn't a polished thing but is raw. Is that still sensuality?
If you look at the Word where the Bible becomes a Wiki marked up by all, is that still Scripture-Driven?
If you look at encounters with God as being akin to the song "What if God was One of Us" or "Counting Blue Cars", is that still Enthusiastic?
If people took to holding a Communion of the Body via "flash mob" groups or a thousand person "pilgrimage" on a virtual Vatican in Facebook, is that still Sacramental?
Or what about people meeting at a virtual monastery?
Mary