These opportunities for what Kate Lehman, information technology coordinator for the Diocese of Bethlehem, called “ubiquitous communication” can also create difficulties, she and Lytle agreed. “Ubiquitous communication is great, but you are always in the network and you can’t always be in the network or you will end up crashing and burning,” Lehman said. “Jesus went into the wilderness to get away from the network to re-focus.”
Lytle said “this is where we have to be honest and we have to have integrity. We cannot do everything we are being asked to do, and be faithful people. We can’t.”
“We have to get to the point where we are counter-cultural and right now we’re not. We’re trying to keep up with everything that everyone in the world is doing,” she continued. “That’s not going to keep us alive and if we can’t stay alive — if we can’t feel joyous when we’re a part of our communities — how are we going to model and witness what it is that we’re supposed to be excited about?”
Not countercultural! Is this an admission that they have a liberal bias?
They should step out of their network and visit these pages more often.
Or perhaps the pages of a certain Great Book that a lot of counterculturalists have been reading.
Ubiquitous miscommunication awards should have been handed out at this meeting.
The money quote:
“What if we began to think of the communication ministry and vocation coming deeply out a desire to serve the Lord and serve the church?” he asked. “That’s your potential and that’s your work.”
That attitude is not currently common, Doyle suggested. “Unfortunately, some of us leaders haven’t helped you too much and I am worried — concerned for your souls — that maybe we’ve begun to think it’s about spinning the situation, [for instance] taking whatever we did at the House of Bishops and making it sound good to our constituents,” he said. “That’s not the work. Each and every communication that we do has the opportunity of being the kingdom of God and our culture is waiting to hear that. They are longing to hear that.”
It is not a community – it is supposed to be a Body. Huge difference.