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

The long and short of it appears to be that an entire ministerial enterprise dedicated to meeting felt needs, supplying biblical advice, and providing top-notch production values has quietly become a huge success at drawing crowds but a huge failure at what the Bible actually calls the church to do.

Churches and ministries must serve a greater cause than themselves. One church alone can’t fully reach its own community, let alone its city or nation or the nations.

Soon enough, the most central question for both mainline and evangelical pastors was, How can we reach more and more people? They did not ask how they could testify to God’s eternity breaking into time. They asked how they could keep from losing pace up against the threat of secular 2.