The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication

As followers of Jesus, our responsibility is to sow seed as often as we can. The results, biblically speaking, are up to God and God alone.

You couldn’t just walk down to your local Christian bookstore and pick from the myriad translations and surplus of study Bibles. Scripture came with a hefty price tag.

Big Idea: You’re the coin. God is the lady. You matter to God. (That’s Luke 15:8–10, by the way.)

people don’t care how much you know (or what you have to share, sell, or suggest) until they know how much you care.

While I certainly don’t think we need to go back to writing out Scripture word for word, I do think we’ve lost something in translation. What our fragmented, social media-driven culture makes up for in speed and efficiency, we lose in richness and depth. If the medium is the message, writing by hand is the slow cooker and social media is the microw

You and I unite with the purpose of the church universal, yet we have separate and unique callings for our individual lives. Same holds true for many churches. Each one contributes to the larger gospel story God is telling throughout history. Yet each local church has a unique calling specific to the time and place the community it finds itself in.

“God typically works by calling us to something, not away from something.”

church is becoming less of a possessor of knowledge (commodity) and more a communal hub.

God’s word to us—the Holy Scriptures—provides an experience unlike any other written piece of history. It is, by nature, interactive, “alive and powerful” as described by the writer of Hebrews.