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Podcasts are the old telephone party line.

I feel like I need to explain what a party line is/was.  More than a half-century ago phones were connected into networks of people.  You received a certain call signal (usually some long and short rings).  When that ring was heard, you picked up the phone and talked to whomever was there.  Interestingly, anyone else on the network (ie. – most of your neighbours) could also pick up and participate.  Most often the neighbours just quietly listened in to pick up all the gossip.

Podcasts are sort of like that.  They tend to just be conversations between people – or one person pontificating on their newest vision or thought.  You can listen in to the conversation whenever you want.  And  you can comment if you want.  But most of all, the “gossip” of the neighbourhood is now in your possession.

There is even what is called an RSS (a way to know when a call has been made or a podcast has been put online).  You don’t have to miss any of the gossip.

What a great invention, this new/old technology is!!

What you can know is not what you know.

Potential is always that little bit beyond the present.  Tendency is to push towards, and then stall, and then slide backwards.

Persistence is curiosity in action.  Self-control is putting the petal to the metal and not lifting up.

Where to today?

“All the lessons in life are laying in the dirt.  Unless you get down there, you are not going to find them. . . The day you feel  you know enough is the day you reveal what a moron you are.”

Taken from a recent interview with Brett Butt & Kevin Martin with the Kindersley Chamber of Commerce.

Here are two quotes which I wrote down but do not have the source.  A little opportunity to exercise your thinking and observation power.

• “Church attendance in Canada is not decreasing but is decentralizing.”
• “What we do in circles during the week is better than sitting in rows on Sunday.”

My hesitation is based in some of my own observations.

I am finding it increasingly difficult to define church attendance.  If we include a virtual gathering (church, as a term, was originally about assembling) then we are moving past the physical facility.  Is that decentralizing?  And let’s not forget that church and Christian have become separated in our society.  Do we really believe in the communion of the saints, or is church just a social gathering (in whatever form)?

Circles during the week is a way of saying that we interact.  We don’t just attend. 

And yet . . . my Sundays were never about just sitting around for a performance.  The entrance way, the parking lot, even the washroom were places of discussion and encouragement.  After the “rows” came “dinner” and “fellowship”.  The church assembled on Sunday in so many other ways than just sitting.