I’m no Jeremy Smith or Leonard Sweet, but I like to pick up a techie metaphor for church every now and then.
While reading the New York Times review for the new Amazon Kindle, this paragraph caught my attention.
The point everyone is missing is that in Technoland, nothing ever replaces anything. E-book readers won’t replace books. The iPhone won’t replace e-book readers. Everything just splinters. They will all thrive, serving their respective audiences.
Perhaps it is so for churches as well. Our sometimes manic pursuit of “the next big thing” might miss the essential truth. There is one church, but it has a thousand different blooms.
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I am a part-time local pastor serving 
The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
nice call.
Glad to be thought of alongside Leonard Sweet!
Good metaphor, John!