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1. Xcite 2011
Where 2 or 3 are gathered
(virtually) in my name:
Connecting with God
Technologically.

2. Where do I begin?
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3. What is the internet?
a network of networks that
consists of millions of private,
public, academic, business,
and government networks, of
local to global scope, that are
linked by a broad array of
electronic, wireless and
optical networking
technologies. The Internet
carries a vast range
of information resources and
services
• Visualization from the Opte Project of the
various routes through a portion of the
Internet

4. A bit like the underground?

5. How do I do it?
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6. How do I do it?
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7. How do I do it?
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8. How do I do it?
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9. How do I do it?
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10. How do I do it?
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11. How do I do it?
There are an
estimated
51,442,100
internet users in
the UK - which
amounts to
82.0% of the
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12. Some key points

13. Some key points
• Set up in part by military as a way of
interconnecting communications so that that
they could route round damage

14. Some key points
• Set up in part by military as a way of
interconnecting communications so that that
they could route round damage
• It is a language linking autonomous sources and
networks and cannot be controlled centrally only
at the level of each network or outlet.

15. Some key points
• Set up in part by military as a way of
interconnecting communications so that that
they could route round damage
• It is a language linking autonomous sources and
networks and cannot be controlled centrally only
at the level of each network or outlet.
• It’s power points are particular hubs that take a
lot of traffic

16. Some key points
• Set up in part by military as a way of
interconnecting communications so that that
they could route round damage
• It is a language linking autonomous sources and
networks and cannot be controlled centrally only
at the level of each network or outlet.
• It’s power points are particular hubs that take a
lot of traffic
• It transfers information in a condensed and
powerful way – text, audio, visual, interactive
etc.

17. printing press to internet

18. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance

19. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity

20. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information
from hand copy to mass printing

21. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
global distribution

22. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
• Printing controlled by print houses, global distribution
editors etc

23. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
• Printing controlled by print houses, global distribution
editors etc • Internet not controlled - anyone
can communicate

24. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
• Printing controlled by print houses, global distribution
editors etc • Internet not controlled - anyone
• Slow communication can communicate

25. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
• Printing controlled by print houses, global distribution
editors etc • Internet not controlled - anyone
• Slow communication can communicate
• Fast communication

26. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
• Printing controlled by print houses, global distribution
editors etc • Internet not controlled - anyone
• Slow communication can communicate
• Works best where there is a • Fast communication
common understanding of what it
means to be human - shared
beliefs and understandings

27. printing press to internet
• The key invention of Renaissance • Key invention of post-modernity
• Increases access to information • Increases access of information
from hand copy to mass printing from mass print to personalised
• Printing controlled by print houses, global distribution
editors etc • Internet not controlled - anyone
• Slow communication can communicate
• Works best where there is a • Fast communication
common understanding of what it
• Works best within the diversity of
means to be human - shared
beliefs and understandings human cultures and sub-cultures -
the beliefs and understanding of
my tribe.

28. Bible to Blog?

29. Bible to Blog?

30. Bible to Blog?

31. Bible to Blog?

32. So what’s out there?
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33. So what’s out there?
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34. A new world to enter?

35. A new world to enter?

36. A new world to enter?

37. A new world to enter?

38. A way of communicating?
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39. A way of communicating?

40. A way of communicating?

41. A community to belong to?

42. Resources to Share
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43. Resources to Share
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44. Resources to Share
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45. Resources to Share
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46. Resources to Share
scriptedscriptures.ning.com/ 17

47. Information to explore?
www.christianity.org.uk

48. Information to explore?
www.rejesus.co.uk

49. So how do we respond?

50. So how do we respond?
I came that they may have life,
and have it abundantly.

51. So how do we respond?
I came that they may have life,
and have it abundantly.
For God so loved the world that
he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may
not perish but may have eternal
life.

52. So how do we respond?
I came that they may have life,
So Paul reasoned in and have it abundantly.
the... market-place
every day with those
who happened to be
there.
For God so loved the world that
he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may
not perish but may have eternal
life.

53. Some closing thoughts

54. Some closing thoughts
• Internet is as important as printing press it is changing
our world and we need to be involved

55. Some closing thoughts
• Internet is as important as printing press it is changing
our world and we need to be involved
• It is not a place in which to incarnate ministry and plant
churches – it is a way of building relationships in which
faith can be shared and out of which churches can be
planted but all this exists ‘off-line’

56. Some closing thoughts
• Internet is as important as printing press it is changing
our world and we need to be involved
• It is not a place in which to incarnate ministry and plant
churches – it is a way of building relationships in which
faith can be shared and out of which churches can be
planted but all this exists ‘off-line’
• It globalises communication and radically increases the
cross-cultural nature of communication

57. Some closing thoughts
• Internet is as important as printing press it is changing
our world and we need to be involved
• It is not a place in which to incarnate ministry and plant
churches – it is a way of building relationships in which
faith can be shared and out of which churches can be
planted but all this exists ‘off-line’
• It globalises communication and radically increases the
cross-cultural nature of communication
• It can’t be controlled and expresses the worst and best
of humanity – including Christianity

58. Some closing thoughts
• Internet is as important as printing press it is changing
our world and we need to be involved
• It is not a place in which to incarnate ministry and plant
churches – it is a way of building relationships in which
faith can be shared and out of which churches can be
planted but all this exists ‘off-line’
• It globalises communication and radically increases the
cross-cultural nature of communication
• It can’t be controlled and expresses the worst and best
of humanity – including Christianity
• It takes time to invest in relationships and these are the
key to people becoming disciples not information about
faith.

59. Connecting further:
http://www.facebook.com/simon.cutmore
http://twitter.com/SimonGCutmore
http://www.rectorymusings.blogspot.com
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