"we are the world" ?!

hi everyone. i'm karen ward, a church planter and roving god watcher in seattle, washington. when i got my invite from andrew to be on the blogging team, and i read about how kingdom bloggers would be networked all over the globe, i thought, this is massive... this is an organic living example of "emergence theory" becoming a reality in the global church.

all of this jives with this book (from a non church vantage point) that i recently read called "emergence- the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software" by steven johnson. it is not an "easy read," but is a quirky, fascinating and hugely relevant foray into the science of complexity and the rising theory of emergence (as the "bottom up" organizational paradigm that is increasingly guiding research across a myriad of disciplines). emergence theory already underlies the internet, and will increasingly inform the patterning of the 21st century church (as this akingdom space blog is a prime example).

about the title of this post. when i got the blog invite, i also thought of those catchy global aide songs that were popular back in the 80's (when i was in college), where people swayed and sang "we are the world, we are the children..." well, in many ways, kingdomspace blogging is a making a reality of something that was formerly and mostly swayed. we are the world. we are god's children. we are helping to connect what god is doing all over the globe.

cheers!