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What exactly does an Online Pastor do? This episode explores in greater detail the life and ministry of Online Pastors, people who wrestle with pastoring, shepherding people in...

So I was flipping through Linked In recently when I ran across a Jeff Bezos interview on CNBC from 1999. Twenty years later, Amazon is one of the top retail companies in America, if not the world....

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I first heard of Church Anywhere about a year ago, meeting Tyler on Facebook. I immediately fell in love with his Church. First Capital Christian is many things. Big is not one of...

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There's no way around it... Church Online is a new concept. With the newness comes uneasiness and doubt, especially from people carrying organizational responsibility. How is this...

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Welcome to The Church Digital Podcast! We'll be hosting an ongoing dialogue here on Church Online, sharing stories and challenges surrounding doing ministry in digital spaces. 

What...

Every Sunday morning, Facebook Live explodes with churches broadcasting their services online. Honestly, Facebook makes broadcasting services online so inexpensive, so easy to do... there's really...

We've talked a lot lately about the philosophical shift coming by way of Church Online. In addition to just broadcasting church services online, the Church now has the potential to expand into...

Technology and Social Media are in the news once again as USA Today runs the article "Teens aren't socializing in the real world. And that's making them super lonely". The USA Today article...

Why do we do Church Online? Great question. Let's back up. There are three types of people who engage Church Online any given Sunday:

Well, Church, we're wrapping up our little academic experiment. Ed Stetzer & the Send Institute released a "Church Planting Manifesto", with guidelines and directives for Church Plants to launch...

Hey Church, we're on a little bit of an academic exercise here. Send Institute recently released a Church Planting Manifesto for 21st Century North America. The document is a charge to new...

I haven't blogged about the Exponential: Made for More Conference last week. It was AWESOME. I personally love conferences, ESPECIALLY one that gives me an opportunity to talk about Discipleship...

Do not merely listen to the word ONLINE, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says IN THE REAL WORLD. - James 1:22

So I met Andrea in a Facebook Group when she said she had documented examples showing the success of Online Groups. Andrea  is the Online Community Director over at The Ridge Community Church, and...

I was talking with a Church Online staff person recently. He is new in his role, and wanted to talk about how to take some next steps for his Church Online. I asked him a basic question that has...

I'm enthralled with Judah Smith's Churchome movement, mainly because it's so cutting edge. Well, "cutting edge" by Church standards. Sure, the business world has been thriving with new digital...

Thank you Judah Smith!

Back in my early days of ministry, I served at a church who had just hired a new Creative Director. To some at this particular church, the idea of a Creative Director was a foreign concept, and...

Plenty of churches broadcast their services online. Take your service and put it on Facebook Live. It's super-easy. Why not do this? Our traffic reports show us people are watching, but who are...

As part of an ongoing blog series "Church Online in 2020" we're taking an introspective look into the changes Church Online needs to make in 2019 for it to be a growing, healthy representation of...

As part of an ongoing blog series "Church Online in 2020" we're taking an introspective look into the changes Church Online needs to make in 2019 for it to be a growing, healthy representation of...

As part of an ongoing blog series "Church Online in 2020" we're taking an introspective look into the changes Church Online needs to make in 2019 for it to be a growing, healthy representation of...

[As part of an ongoing blog series "Church Online in 2020" we're taking an introspective look into the changes Church Online needs to make in 2019 for it to be a growing, healthy part of "Church"...

2019 is here! 2018 is in the rearview mirror and we have a blank slate ahead of us. With the new year comes this challenge: let's make 2019 the year of Church Online. Let 2019 become the year that...