{"id":389,"date":"2007-04-03T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/04\/googleeyed-p2.html"},"modified":"2007-04-03T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T02:00:00","slug":"googleeyed-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/04\/googleeyed-p2.html","title":{"rendered":"Google-eyed (p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company magazine calls Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, &quot;Google&#8217;s worst nightmare.&quot;&nbsp; The reason is simple, he believes that there is a better way to do what Google (and Yahoo, Ask.com etc) do.&nbsp; He is not to first to think this but he is unique in his approach.<\/p>\n<p>The fascinating thing is that he doesn&#8217;t know how he is going to do it yet.&nbsp; That is why he put out the call on Wikia&#8217;s website asking for help.&nbsp; Not just any kind of help, but volunteer help.&nbsp; He &quot;received 4 million mentions online and attracted its first 1,000 volunteers.&quot;&nbsp; He believes the answer to his mission is found in the army of people who will serve the mission for free.<\/p>\n<p>Is this not the way pastors are to go about reaching their communities?&nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t Eph. 4 point the professional clergy to surrender the actual ministry into the hands of volunteers?&nbsp; I believe the key to the transformation of our cities is not found in the pulpits but in the pews.<\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company magazine calls Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, &quot;Google&#8217;s worst nightmare.&quot;&nbsp; The reason is simple, he believes that there is a better way to do what Google (and Yahoo, Ask.com etc) do.&nbsp; He is not to first to think this but he is unique in his approach. The fascinating thing is that he doesn&#8217;t know&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google-eyed (p2) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/04\/googleeyed-p2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google-eyed (p2) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fast Company magazine calls Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, &quot;Google&#8217;s worst nightmare.&quot;&nbsp; The reason is simple, he believes that there is a better way to do what Google (and Yahoo, Ask.com etc) do.&nbsp; He is not to first to think this but he is unique in his approach. 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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