PDF Book: Online Church Is Not The Answer
Overview of Book: Digital is a confusing concept, and many churches struggle to understand it, with most limiting their digital experience to streaming their church services and nothing more. In this book, you’ll learn how to think strategically about digital strategy and how to best integrate digital ideas into your church that align with your ministry’s in-person objectives. The goal is to disciple more people and not just get an online audience. Readers of this book will learn to cut through the hype and discern the most critical, high-level concepts and find practical ideas they can implement in their church. You’ll walk away with a vision and a pathway to take your church’s digital strategy to the next level and beyond just streaming a church service.
Overview of Book: Digital is a confusing concept, and many churches struggle to understand it, with most limiting their digital experience to streaming their church services and nothing more. In this book, you’ll learn how to think strategically about digital strategy and how to best integrate digital ideas into your church that align with your ministry’s in-person objectives. The goal is to disciple more people and not just get an online audience. Readers of this book will learn to cut through the hype and discern the most critical, high-level concepts and find practical ideas they can implement in their church. You’ll walk away with a vision and a pathway to take your church’s digital strategy to the next level and beyond just streaming a church service.
Overview of Book: Digital is a confusing concept, and many churches struggle to understand it, with most limiting their digital experience to streaming their church services and nothing more. In this book, you’ll learn how to think strategically about digital strategy and how to best integrate digital ideas into your church that align with your ministry’s in-person objectives. The goal is to disciple more people and not just get an online audience. Readers of this book will learn to cut through the hype and discern the most critical, high-level concepts and find practical ideas they can implement in their church. You’ll walk away with a vision and a pathway to take your church’s digital strategy to the next level and beyond just streaming a church service.
Length: 227 pages
Table of Contents:
First This
Chapter 1: Think Digitally
Chapter 2: Thief and Tower
Chapter 3: Understand the Objective
Chapter 4: Knowing Your Audiences
Chapter 5: Picking Your Approach
Chapter 6: Deciding Your Structure
Chapter 7: Creating Digital Spaces (The 4 S’s)
Chapter 8: Power of Online Small Groups
Chapter 9: Getting More People Engaged in Digital Strategy
Chapter 10: Measuring Digital
Chapter 11: Streaming Church?
Chapter 12: Understanding the Gap
Chapter 13: House Churches Connected to Online
Chapter 14: Friction Is a Good Thing
Chapter 15: The Future
Final Thoughts
Appendix 1: Next Step Questions
Appendix 2: Saddleback Church’s Online Church Model