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The Free Information Age -part 2
Posted on October 15th, 2009 No commentsIn a previous post, I discussed the beginning of what I have dubbed the Free Information Age. This post was not meant as simply a parenthetical comment to the current zeitgeist, but as an introduction to a discussion of both the cultural waters that the Church must swim in, and a means of strategy for [...]
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The Free Information Age
Posted on October 8th, 2009 2 commentsWhat does seem to be noteworthy, is that I believed that there has been a major chapter change in this societal tome. The zeitgeist of the Information Age or IA (because I am sick of typing this out) was that Information could be a commodity itself. In fact, information itself could prove to be a more important commodity in many ways than even brick and steel…
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Google Voice, A Church Planter’s Best Friend
Posted on August 12th, 2009 1 commentI haven’t talked about this much yet, but Google has been creating a set of tools that can literally change the way churches do business. Yes, yes, I know that they have a great search engine (and are upping the ante with a new search engine process called Caffeine), but the exciting stuff is all out of Google Labs, their experimental wing.
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Contextualizing the Gospel -Part 2
Posted on June 27th, 2009 1 commentNeither of these church responses is appropriate, of course. When a missionary takes the message of Jesus into a completely unreached people group, he must find a way to connect that message to their cultural and world viewpoint. This is no easy task for the missionary. Much of the way the life of Christian faith is lived out in a particular culture is not actually essential or biblically derived…
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Contextualizing the Gospel -Part 1
Posted on June 25th, 2009 5 commentsOne of my most-discussed topics on this blog has been the life of faith in a post-Christian America. The most read section of this blog is this section, about the use of communications technology within the church. These two topics are not disconnected, though. Any new culture necessitates new ways of communicating the message of Jesus. Radical societal changes create a new culture. Thus, the Christian message must be re-contextualized. In order to understand the methods of communicating that, we must first truly understand the basic reasons behind this…
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Texting During Church
Posted on May 25th, 2009 1 commentI read an interesting article from Time magazine last week about churches warming to the idea of texting and tweeting during church. Twittering in Church, with the Pastor’s O.K., by Bonnie Rochman sites a few churches that are encouraging church members to text and tweet all they want during the sermon, in an effort to [...]
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Things Not to Do (1)
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 5 commentsDo not put “Welcome to our little website,” or any derivative of this on your website. People know that it is your website. They just clicked or typed the url to get there. You can say “welcome” if you really feel the need, but the full message just really sounds hokey. It also gives the [...]
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What Makes a Good Church Web Ministry (Part 4a)
Posted on April 17th, 2009 2 commentsI just watched a video webinar from Drew Goodmanson and Cynthia Ware that was linked from Drew’s site. It presents the data from a survey that they helped conduct. I must say that it is making me re-examine some long held preconceptions of church social networking in my mind. I am coming to realize that much of what I had thought two years ago is not working out socially the way I expected. It is one of those slap-in-the-forhead moments.
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Internet Evangelism Day
Posted on April 13th, 2009 1 commentThe other day I got a comment from Tony from InternetEvangelismDay.com. I usually am very skeptical about people who try to sneak link-spam into my blogs, and I tend to be pretty heavy handed with the comment approval. I checked out the site just for kicks-and-giggles, and was quite impressed with what I saw. Their site is a veritable menagerie of tools and helps for churches planning to use their Internet ministry effectively. At the core of their plan is to make April 26th a day dedicated to Internet evangelism worldwide.
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What Makes a Good Church Web Ministry (Part 3)
Posted on April 11th, 2009 7 commentsOK, here we go! Let’s look at some examples of real live church websites that I have encountered recently.
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