This week, Jeremy is done with clearing out the water around the water temple, so it is time to get some design work done for the floor.
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by Jeremy Smith
This week, Jeremy is done with clearing out the water around the water temple, so it is time to get some design work done for the floor.
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In the world of digital and social media church communication there are many individuals doing some great work and paving a path forward that the church has not been yet. Some of these individuals you may have had interactions with or have even seen a product of their work. Others might have slipped through the radar as they continue to work in the trenches of church communications. I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight them. Here is a small window into their world.
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We’re exploring how this digital age has effected our culture and what this means for discipleship. In the first post we looked at instant gratification and in the second at the need for speed. In this episode, we’ll look at an aspect of our culture that’s very much influenced by social media.
If there’s one thing our digital culture has enabled, it is the ease with which we connect with people. Online, that is.
Take a ‘like’ for example. When Facebook rolled out the ‘like’ option it meant agreeing with whatever was posted, literally liking it. But the ‘like’ has evolved into much more, or at least it had until Facebook rolled out the other emoticon options. That’s why we could like sad posts, or posts that made us angry—our like was an expression of sympathy, of showing that we had seen it. A like equaled a connection, however fleeting and superficial.
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by Greg Simmons
Technology makes us verbally lazy.
From text messages to tweets; Instagram posts to Snapchats, we cram our thoughts and observations into 160 characters or fewer. Spelling and grammar are ignored and words become numbers or even single letters. SRSLY?! Wht are U thinking?!
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by Chris Wilson
Although every church website should be a special snowflake just as your church is, the truth is that there is a set of very common bits of information that is an absolute must for your church site to include. These are the non-negotiables, the vital parts that your congregation and visitors want to see.
Today I’m going to lay out the vital info your church website needs to have as well as a couple of bits of information that will really help as well.
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“Content is king.” Bill Gates coined this phrase at the dawn of the internet, and it’s still relevant today, especially in the church. After all, the church’s content is the gospel. What could be more “king” than that?
Sermons, small-group studies, mid-week services—this is the content your church uses to share the gospel. This is the content that’s impacting your members, discipling them and helping them grow deeper spiritually.
Recording this content and making it easily accessible online has become necessary for churches as the world becomes more and more digitally centered. Where and how you distribute this content is now something churches need to start thinking seriously about.
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