September 12, 2017

The church needs to be more digital. For small churches especially, the digital world can level the playing field, giving us a broader reach and wider ministry, as I wrote in The Gatekeepers are Gone: What’s Holding Your Ministry Back?

We need more churches taking advantage of online services, podcasts, livestreaming, social media, blogging, you name it.

Online church is not just necessary, it’s important, even essential. The speed, convenience and world-wide reach of the internet is a wonderful tool. The digital world is a great place to network about faith. I know. I do a lot of it.

But church will never be entirely digital. Screen-to-screen is no substitute for face-to-face. Digital reality cannot replace actual reality.