This is perhaps one of the biggest paradigm-shifts in thinking that can occur as you begin to leverage social media more in your ministry.
The simple fact is that your congregation, your students, those that you minister to, are spending more time online than in front of you and the pulpit. If this is the case, then why don’t you have a better integrated approach to the use of social media?
Instead of waking up Monday morning and thinking about how to use your blog as a vehicle for continuing your teaching that you left them with on Sunday, why not plan your sermon, message, and teaching with the blog already in mind?
Why not plan your strategy with social media and your blog not as an afterthought but as a critical component?
chrissulli says
Great question, awesome opportunities to engage people through out the week rather than church being a "Sunday thing"
JakeSchwein says
That will be a big shift. Might not sound that big…but actually having pastors/teachers…etc think in this way is a total retraining!!
Lantz Howard says
I am constantly amazed at how many pastors do not leverage any form of social networking. Possibly social networking is the new small group (but much larger). One can engage in conversations on many levels that cannot happen during the Sunday morning hour.
However, even if a local pastor embraces social media, then one has to ask how many people in a particular church use or know what social networking is? I guess it all depends on the generational ages of the church body.
Kevin_Martineau says
This is something that I have been thinking about lately . . . it was good to have it re-affirmed! Thanks! 🙂