Social media is disruptive. Every other societal building block has been disrupted by the shift toward social. Why would we think the church should be any different?

Rubbing elbows online means we “tear the veil” that shrouds our lives with the hopes of showing what a Christian’s life looks like, warts and all.

Let me be clear: the church and her mission will never perish. This much we know. What we do not know is what our co-creative role in building God’s kingdom will be. We do not know because it is mostly up to us. We can choose to become interactive as a church or we can choose to fade further into the cultural background.

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

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.

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

this is where the value of social media lies—in its ability to use technology to facilitate connection and relationships between real people. Emerging generations see little to no difference between an “online” and “offline” world.

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

Organizations are filled with people. People communicate. When the way people communicate with each other changes, the organization will change. This process is happening in megachurches, house churches, and everything in between. It’s affecting young and old congregations, mainline and evangelical churches, emergent and conservative churches. No