Tag: churches
PODCAST 086: Ali Roohi – My Church is Healthier Because of COVID
by TheChurch.Digital: I’ve talked with hundreds of Pastors in this COVID season. Easily. Not an exaggeration. If I count emails, texts, social media, direct messages, pings… geez, may be over a thousand. Never, never, NEVER have I heard a Pastor tell me this: “Our Church is healthier because of COVID.” […]
PODCAST 085: Doug Parks, Church as Platform, and Moving Beyond the Institutional Model
By: the Church.Digital What can we, the Church, learn from Uber? AirBNB? We’re 100+ days into this COVID thing. Our buildings aren’t getting much usage. In some areas (like where I am in Florida) we’re actually worse now than ever. In that same vein, I had a pastor tell […]
PODCAST 084: Christopher Benek, Virtual Reality, & Beyond Church Buildings
By: The Church.Digital What does the future hold for Virtual Reality?… for Artificial Intelligence? Talk to the business world and they’re chomping at the bit to take advantage of disruptions like these. But what of the church world? As a general rule, we’re more skeptical of these innovations. Is the […]
PODCAST 077: Tim Celek & Defining Matthew 28 by Focusing on the One
By: The Church.digital Church, why do we do this? Why do we do ‘church’? I don’t mean physical church, or digital church. I don’t mean weekend services, or small groups. I simply mean, why is it that we do what we do? Our buildings, our online… Pastor, there are times […]
PODCAST 076: Lee Coate & Digital Engagement Pathway for Your Church
by The Church.Digital: So, who are these people who are watching our Churches Online and what are we supposed to do with them? COVID-19 has brought us tons of traffic, and maybe for the first time we, as a church, are understanding the potential of the reach of Church Online. […]
The Church is a Chess Set
by The Church.Digital: Here I am sitting in my backyard, which has become my new office on days when the weather allows. From here, it almost seems as if nothing has changed from last year, the last few months, or the last couple of weeks. Life goes on much as […]
The Opportunity When The Church LEFT The Building
by The Church.Digital: The entire world has been placed in lockdown. Schools suspended, businesses shut, sports on hold, travel restrictions, distancing measures, public gatherings forbidden, and church buildings… locked. How does the church care for her people in this global pandemic? What is God saying amongst all of this? We […]
Part Two: A Hub and Spoke Model to Create Digital Community for Small Groups and Sunday School
In part one of this article, we looked at four important criteria for creating digital community in your church, and gave some quick recommendations if you want to pursue a decentralized approach where you empower individual group leaders with one or more suggested platforms, provide coaching and training on those […]
Church Live Video Streams Weekend Service from Remote Location
by Jeff Reed: With the reductions and restrictions of large gatherings over the past week, churches all over the world have been forced to create a space for their church family to gather together on the weekend, without physically being next to one another. For portable City Light Church in […]
Opportunities During this Disruptive Time
by Jeff Reed: With church buildings closing and thousands of churches frantically broadcasting their Sunday services online for the first time in hopes of giving people an option, I have to wonder. Why? I mean, if we’re going to do a big production in the building on Sunday, I get […]