“We’re Small and Getting Older. Is This Even for Us?”
We hear a version of this often, usually said quietly and with a little embarrassment. A congregation of forty or sixty, most of them past retirement, and a good man
We hear a version of this often, usually said quietly and with a little embarrassment. A congregation of forty or sixty, most of them past retirement, and a good man
Most of what gets written about reaching people online quietly assumes a team, a budget, and someone whose job this is. That describes few congregations.
Nearly every church website has a page about what the congregation believes. It’s often one of the most visited pages on the whole site, because a person deciding whether to
For nearly all of history, how far a lesson traveled was decided by the room it was preached in. That ceiling is gone.
It’s a question a lot of congregations have wrestled with, and brethren land in different places on it in good faith.
We help congregations reach people online, so you might expect us to say every church should be doing this. We won’t, because it isn’t true.
Once a congregation decides it wants to reach people online, the very next question is a practical one. Do we handle this ourselves, or do we bring in someone to
If your congregation has decided it’s time for a new website, you’re about to have a handful of conversations with people who all sound reasonably convincing.
If your church is going to speak the truth where the world can hear it, someone will eventually disagree. The question isn’t how to avoid that. It’s how to handle