Church 2.0

What if "church" as we knew it started acting more like Web 2.0?

Think about it…

Web 1.0: Professionals controlled the content. They mostly collaborated with other professionals for web content, web design, web development.

Web 2.0: You and I are in control. In effect, the people are in charge and there are new professionals controlling content, designing their own sites, and developing what they want.

Web 1.0: We had to wait for Microsoft to come up with something new. Or a 3rd party had to build a plugin like Java to enhance our web experience. Remember… people used to pay for web browsers like Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, etc.

Web 2.0: Everything good seems to be open source now. The best browsers are free and I would argue the best content management software is also free.

Web 1.0: Statistics that mattered were mostly about visitors, pageviews, and everything else based on "did people look at my content."

Web 2.0: Stats that matter are… comments, interactivity, feed subscribers, widget implementers, social bookmarkers.

For discussion:
What about the church. What if the church were to change how it fundamentally went to a 2.0? What would church look like? What would ministry professionals do? And what would the people do?

p.s. There is apparently a video project called church 2.0 about this subject. Here’s another guy talking about it as well.