The Open Source Ministry Blog

Last month I wrote the Top 10 Signs Your Church is Geeky, but lately I have written some more.
Some of these show my web development tendencies, but hopefully they are enjoyable to other geeks as well. Remember, Google is your friend.

1. On Monday morning the preacher’s best illustrations have had bootlegs posted to YouTube
2. There are rumors that someone in the church is working on a way to have virtual reality services.
3. Your building decorations have rounded corners, the colors are all pastels or fruit colors in gradients, and the fonts are all sans-serif; but nobody complains because it is just so Web 2.0.
4. Tithes increase dramatically whenever GOOG announces higher than expected revenues.
5. Your songs are selected by your own PageRank algorithm.
6. The pulpit floats, dude, I’m not kidding.
7. It seems as though every fellowship dinner is interrupted by a Mentos and Diet Soda demonstration by one of the deacons.
8. Last year’s “candle light” service was done completely with rfid triggered LEDs.
9. You have been featured on Japanese television, and you aren’t in Japan.
10. The bulletin was hand coded in plain text as XHTML 1.0 strict with the proper doctype.

I hope you enjoyed them. Perhaps sometime in the future my mind will wander back to this.

Edit: I just posted “Another 10 Signs Your Church Is Geeky” and thought it would be worth updating this post to link to it.