Google Wave is a new, collaborative environment poised to recast the way we think about online communication.  It’s actually quite a difficult experience to describe.  Think email plus instant messaging with a healthy dose of Wikipedia.  It’s bizarre and surreal, but it’s cool.  So as the hoards await their invitations to the popular new technology, let’s present a sarcastic emergent use case.
Google Wave provides the platform for the ultimate community worship service. Â Gone are the days when your pastor preaches to you. Â With Google Wave, you can contribute to his words! Â First, the congregation should be equipped with laptops or smartphones. Â Second, the worship service needs to be blanketed with WiFi so everyone can be equally connected – in spirit and in ethernet.
The next big step is to place a computer with a fairly large monitor on the pulpit.  You can hide this eye soar with a bit of skilled carpentry.  The pastor is now prepared to visualize the hive-mind.  Throughout the week, the pastor should write his sermon in a Google wave.  This allows the congregation to watch and even participate as he writes.  Come Sunday, the people can even interact with the sermon text while the pastor delivers it.  Is the sermon’s application too pointed?  Change it.  Don’t think the sermon is funny enough?  Add some jokes – or better yet, a YouTube clip.  Remember, everyone’s connected so the congregation will see and hear it.
Don’t forget the back channel. Â Feel free to comment on the pastor’s delivery or that goofy tie he’s wearing. Â Schedule a lunch with friends for after the service and queue up your favorite U2 tracks to sing instead of hymns. Â And after the sermon concludes, don’t forget to tweet your praise. Â This is dialogical, communal worship for the digital age. Â Regulative principle, schmegulative principle.
jason d. says: 
hahaha oh man that had me cracking up! “Regulative principle, schmegulative principle.”