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TECHNOLOGY. Six Startup Ministries. Health Worship: Front Door Assimilation: Back Door Technology: Side Door. Question. How will you use technology to accelerate your church planting?. Good to Great Model. Technology Accelerators.
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Six Startup Ministries • Health • Worship: Front Door • Assimilation: Back Door • Technology: Side Door
Question • How will you use technology to accelerate your church planting?
Technology Accelerators • Your hedgehog concept must drive your use of technology not the reverse. • When used correctly, technology accelerates momentum.
Changing Church • Primary way people check out new church before they visit the church. • No closed countries, No national boundaries. Even poor countries have web cafes. • Young pastors do web preparation • Barna report: End of decade, 50 million people rely solely on Internet for their faith based experience. • Not having a Web site is the equivalent of owning a business but not listing your phone number or address
Changing Ministry • Three times as many Web sites are devoted to Christianity than any other major religion • There are over 6 million references to Christianity on the web • The theory that Christians are shying away from these new technologies is simply not substantiated by the evidence. • Great divide: Half of surveyed churches no plans to have a web page in future.
Recommended Web • CP MEDIA • Acts 29 • Purpose Driven • Ed Stetzer • Passion for Planting • ChurchPlanter.com • Coaching Solutions • Exponential • EFCA
Why Church Planting Media? • Know planters • Creative • Interactive • Alive • Simple • Flexible • Expandable • Cost effective: $50/month www.churchplantmedia.com
Web Design • Keep simple, not to busy. • Don’t forget basics • Contact information • Directions • Planter picture • Denomination • Vision & Values • Planter: Hand off this task
Marketing www.church-marketing.com www.outreach.com
Online Evangelism http://guide.gospelcom.net www.fishthe.net
Worship Resources • Open Song • www.opensong.org • Equivalent to Media Shout, but free
Blogs • Planters, your people are interested in your ministry ideas. • They are not interested that you went shopping in the mall yesterday with your wife or your kid is the cutest in the universe.
Social Networking • Read Stetzer’s blog pro’s & cons of Social Networking • Facebook • You Tube • My Space • Twitter
Summary • This is the tip of the iceberg • Internet is so important, you should have an Internet ministry team whose task should be to figure out how your church plant can use this tool. • Internet is so important, the church planter should probably not be on the leader of that team.
Technology Plan • What is your technology plan?