Being a web geek, I found an interesting e-book about developing website. It’s called “Getting Real.” It actually tells us a lot about our current culture.

  

I thought I would spend a few posts comparing this “business” advice with the way we currently look at church practice.

From the introduction:  

  

Getting Real gets rid of…

  • Timelines that take months or even years
  • Pie-in-the-sky functional specs
  • Scalability debates
  • Interminable staff meetings
  • The “need” to hire dozens of employees
  • Meaningless version numbers
  • Pristine roadmaps that predict the perfect future
  • Endless preference options
  • Outsourced support
  • Unrealistic user testing
  • Useless paperwork
  • Top-down hierarchy

You don’t need tons of money or a huge team or a lengthy development cycle to build great software. Those things are the ingredients for slow, murky, changeless applications. Getting real takes the opposite approach.

My comments: It seems to me that these guys are saying our culture is growing tired of complex, flashy performances, and instead are ready for more simplicity in life.  Could it be that the end of polished church worships is nearing an end?