MetaChurch: How to Use Digital Ministry to Reach People and Make Disciples

“Church should not be a pop-up shop that only shows up on Sundays. Digital has decoupled everything. You must think of church in terms of a series of interactions across the week, not a series of contiguous minutes within a specific hour on a Sunday.”

believing that online church is the cause of this attendance drop is to oversimplify a complex problem.

Changing our model requires us working through issues of theology, rethinking definitions of community, reimagining our idea of discipleship and ministry, and rewriting our long-held liturgies.

MetaChurch — A group of Jesus followers who worship God and learn about their faith in a church building, a small group, house Bible study, through video on-demand, podcast, or a live-streamed service who still constitute one “congregation.”

When it comes to online and social media, context—not content—is king.

Sometimes the greatest opposition to what God wants to do next, comes from those who were on the cutting edge of what God did last. R.T. KENDALL, THE ANOINTING

If you or your church can create content that meets the felt needs, or answer the questions, or provide the most needed resources to the people living in the community where your church is based and where you have been called to serve . . . then that content, by default, will be relevant.

Everything you do reflects the God you say you believe in. This is what it means to be a disciple.

“I believe that the front door of the Church is now in a person’s pocket. Most people’s church experience actually starts in the digital world even if it finishes in the physical world.”