We have been having conversations on a few different blogs about the idea of churches sharing the sermons ideas, outlines or manuscripts, graphics and videos like open-source software. Over the weekend Gary Lamb posted about Life Church putting up a section of their website for churches to come and download their sermon messages, graphics and videos and Mark Batterson got in the conversation today and had some good comments going back and forth on his page about the idea. I am very much for churches sharing rather than charging. If a church is producing original content for a sermon, a program, anything they are already having to cover the cost of in house work (if the have paid staff) or maybe they have a volunteer doing it, so why pass the cost on to churches or ministries who obviously don’t have people doing for them or they wouldn’t be looking for these sermon helps or program helps? Now I know there are companies producing these same type of products but that is different they were started to make money the churches aren’t creating these with the idea to turn around and sell them. They only want to sell the stuff that comes off as professional. Check out the conversations going on Chris Marsden, Matt Payne, Mark Batterson, Me.
[tags]wikipedia, open-source, resources[/tags]
