the technical language of ministry and missions ben kelley, ph.d., p.e. ecs professor & dean ecs...
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The Technical Language of Ministry and Missions
Ben Kelley, Ph.D., P.E.ECS Professor & Dean
ECS Scholars Day, 1-Feb-08
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Technology Influences History
Fire Wheel Bronze Age Industrial Revolution Internal Combustion Digital Electronics …
Statement of Fact
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Technology Influences the Church
Fishers of Men Water Wells Gutenberg Printing Press Circuit Riders Radio Sermons Televangelists …
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ECS’ers Have a Vocabulary
IEEE, ACM, ASME, SWE, NSBE
ΧΣ, ΗΚΝ, ΤΒΠ, ΠΤΣ,
VLSI, ASTM, LVDT
Moore’s Law, Wolf’s Law
Coulomb, Watt, Maxwell, L'Hôpital, Pascal Newton, Doty, Gaitros, Thompson, Farris
My favorites: Franklin & Edison
, ABET
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Baylor, ECS, and the Church
Judge REB Baylor BGCT, BSM, RUF, FBCW Chapel Christian Scriptures; Christian Heritage Engineers with a Mission Appropriate Technology “…with a Christian worldview.”
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Technology Affects Our Lives
iPod
iPhone
MySpace
YouTube
And so also the church
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We Are Technology
We Are The Church
Technology is a part of the Church
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e-Commerce, e-Mail, e-Learning…
e-Missionaries– Coined by Saddleback’s Rick Warren– Access to dangerous regions– Communications through e-mail, web sites…
e-Discipleship– Bible study course online– Self paced; Advantage of web attributes
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e-Everything/Anything…
e-Bible– Searchable online bibles– Available for mobile devices– eBible Teacher adds PowerPoints & SS lessons
e-Vangelism– or Internet Evangelism– Reach un/underserved populations
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Cyber…
CyberSitter (internet filter)
CyberAngels (virus protection)
CyberDefender (anti spyware)
CyberShot (SONY camera)
CyberCheck (remote PC control)
CyberGuys (online hardware and software)
CyberErotica (movies)
Seven of NineSpecies: Human; Cybernetic
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Cyber…
CyberChurch
– Virtual church
– “Meets” in cyberspace
– Members minister to each other
– Takes advantage of internet (geocities, yahoo, MySpace, Second Life, Cell/Smart phones…)
– Operates across vast physical/geographic platforms
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Cyber…
CyberMissions
– Taught in seminaries
– “front-line use of computers and the internet as tools in achieving the Great Commission.”
– “reaching the next billion internet users that will come online in the next three years.”
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Cyber…
CyberEvangelist– First as non-Christian term promoting www– Significant portion of ministry is online– Position held by Jeremy Ciaramella at Portland
International Church of Christ
CyberMinistry– The activities Of a CyberEvangelist– Lots of community/connection advice on internet
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Other New Staff Titles
Pastor of Technology– The individual who decides what “… technology
investments are essential to achieving our goals of communicating the Gospel.” Tyndall Wakeham, Ecclesia Church, Houston
PastorPreneurs– Entrepreneur pastors often involved with church
plantings and transformations and that have responsibilities for managing many elements of the church business and ministry.
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Other High-Tech Vernacular
MegaChurch– 2,000 or more weekly worshipers– Some simulcast to branches– LifeChurch (20k members, 11 locations)
Online Outreach– Al-Anon– Newsletters, web casts, blogs
Web Missions– Examples are exhaustive & some robust
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“Academic” Conferences
ICCM– International Conference on Computing & Missions
AC4
– Association of Christian Computer Centers
IMC– Internet Ministry Conference
CEEC– Christian Engineering Educators Conference
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Interesting Thoughts
Risk Management: in dangerous regions
By 2010 internet evangelism will represent majority of decisions for Christ – Campus Crusade
One-to-many and one-to-one
Asynchronous and Archived
Wide geography; Low cost
Particular niches; Seeker driven
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Other Vernacular Quips
The Geek shall inherit the earth.
Give me that on-line religion.
Christianity is not a theory; its a life.
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