The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication

Becoming a social church means we need leaders who are willing to serve as heretics. Not theological heretics, mind you. I mean to say we need men and women who are willing to challenge long-standing and widely beloved methods of communicating the gospel message. People who are willing to bring some sacred cows to the barbecue and butcher them in f

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

The history books remain unwritten for the digital era. The pages are blank. What will your contribution be? Quoting from Joshua, in both words and sentiment, “As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord!”19

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 o

Martin Luther: “If I had my time to go over again, I would make my sermons much shorter, for I am conscious they have been too wordy.”

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.

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.

we read Scripture with the promise that we will come to know or acquire a more intimate understanding of who God is and how he operates in our world.