Social Media and Ministry Sharing the Gospel in the Digital Age
Social Media and Ministry Sharing the Gospel in the Digital Age

Author: Kenneth Lillard

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-11-26

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 055786352X

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND MINISTRY Sharing the Gospel in the Digtal Age is a practical guide for all (including pastors and church leaders) to social media. It is a handbook, a how-to-manual for ministries on how to use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms to grow and increase their influence. It is a Pastor's Guide to Social Media. This book is also for those, in general, who seek a better understanding of social networking, and how social media impacts our daily lives. Finally, it is about the information-based Digital Age and how we relate to it.

The Social Media Gospel
The Social Media Gospel

Author: Meredith Gould

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0814647073

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If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry? As a veteran social media expert, author, and sociologist, Meredith Gould has helped answer these questions and more in her best-selling book The Social Media Gospel. In this second edition, Gould provides an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide to digital ministry for those wishing to embrace new technologies to build community and deepen faith. In this expanded edition, Gould delivers new content with humor, helpful tips, and counsel anchored in practical experience. She focuses on key topics for effective church communication, including: * Building and ministering to online communities * Privacy and self-disclosure in the digital age * Integrating communications across digital platforms * Managing and monitoring social media * Faith storytelling with visual social media * Hashtag development and live-tweeting

Ministry in the Digital Age
Ministry in the Digital Age

Author: David T. Bourgeois

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0830856617

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David Bourgeois offers a step-by-step guide for discerning and implementing a digital strategy in your ministry. Presenting Christianity itself as a grand communication event, he helps Christians see that the advent of electronic media is truly good news for the world.

From Social Media to Social Ministry
From Social Media to Social Ministry

Author: Nona Jones

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0310104017

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This book outlines digital discipleship principles for building an online community and provides practical instruction for how to do it no matter how big or small a local church may be. There are more than 2.3 billion professing Christians in the world and more and more new churches launching globally, yet statistics show that in-person church attendance is declining or plateauing in every nation. Although social technology has been around for more than two decades, church leaders have long bristled at the idea of church online, ranking it as the last concern on their minds in Barna's 2020 state of the church report published February 3, 2020. And then, three weeks later, COVID-19 closed the doors of every church on earth and suddenly forced them entirely online. Nona Jones, a globally acclaimed thought leader on leveraging technology for ministry, had been leading a movement and sounding the alarm for several years to make digital discipleship a central part of every church’s ministry approach. In From Social Media to Social Ministry, she outlines her digital discipleship principles and provides practical instruction for how to do it no matter how big or small a local church may be. There are plenty of books to help churches build a social media strategy, but this is the first book of its kind that goes beyond digital marketing to digital ministry. Readers will leave this book with: Clarity on what discipleship truly is The data that underscores the urgency for digital discipleship Understanding of the resources required to do it well A step-by-step guide on how to implement digital discipleship into ministry plans Knowledge of the differences among and purposes of the most popular social platforms, as well as the tools best positioned for digital ministry

Networked Theology (Engaging Culture)
Networked Theology (Engaging Culture)

Author: Heidi A. Campbell

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1493404393

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The Theological Implications of Digital Culture This informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives. Combining expertise in religion online, theology, and technology, the authors synthesize scholarly work on religion and the internet for a nonspecialist audience. They show that both media studies and theology offer important resources for helping Christians engage in a thoughtful and faith-based critical evaluation of the effect of new media technologies on society, our lives, and the church.

Analog Church
Analog Church

Author: Jay Y. Kim

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0830841989

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As our culture begins to reckon with the limits of a digital world, it's time for the church to do the same. In our efforts to stay relevant in our digital age, have we begun to move away from transcendence? Pastor Jay Kim grapples with the ramifications of a digital church, from worship and Christian community to how we engage Scripture.

The Social Church
The Social Church

Author: Justin Wise

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2014-01-29

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0802487467

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Did you know you can read online reviews of your church? How often have you talked about “reaching people where they are”—and realized that much of the time, they are on the Internet? We’ve been living in a digital world for quite a while now. Justin Wise speaks about social media as this generation's printing press—a revolutionary technology that can spread the gospel farther and faster than we can imagine. It’s time to take what we know (and admit what we don’t know) and learn together how to move forward as the church. Are you ready to think theologically about this digital age and reach people in a new way?

The Reluctant Witness
The Reluctant Witness

Author: Don Everts

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2019-07-30

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 083086556X

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Don Everts grew up assuming that spiritual conversations are always painful and awkward. But his surprising—and sometimes embarrassing—stories affirm what Scripture and the latest research reveal: spiritual conversations can actually be a delight. With original research from the Barna Group on spiritual conversations in the digital age, this book offers fresh insights and best practices for how to become eager conversationalists.

Connected Toward Communion
Connected Toward Communion

Author: Daniella Zsupan-Jerome

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0814682456

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We are living in a cultural shift: digital communication has reshaped the way we interact with one another, form and maintain relationships, and gain knowledge and understanding. How might we go about communicating the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of these changes to an emerging culture shaped by digital media? This question addresses the whole church, from the baptized faithful to pastoral ministers and the institutional structures that serve the church locally and globally. In Connected toward Communion, Daniella Zsupan-Jerome traces the Roman Catholic Church’s contemporary thought and practice of social communication, from Inter Mirifica of the Second Vatican Council to the church's approach to communicating faith through social networking today. Throughout, a key question forms a common thread: how might we form pastoral ministers today for serving the church in the digital age and beyond?

Following Jesus in a Digital Age
Following Jesus in a Digital Age

Author: Jason Thacker

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1087754607

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We were told technology would make our lives easier and more convenient, but technology just seems to have made it more complicated and confusing. As Christians, what does our faith have to do with these pressing issues of life in a digital age? In Following Jesus in a Digital Age, you will not only be challenged on how technology is shaping your walk with Christ, but you will also be equipped with biblical wisdom to navigate the most difficult aspects of our digital culture—including the rise of misinformation, conspiracy theories, social media, digital privacy, and polarization. God calls his people to step into the challenges of the digital age from a place of hope and discernment, grounded in His Word. How will you follow Him in the digital age?