Pastor, Church Communications Guy, Church Website Designer & Blogger
Can you effectively lead a church without being on Facebook? It may not be such a dumb question, in my opinion. Can you lead, teach, and shepherd without technology? Sure. But can you infiltrate the culture with the gospel while walking in a circle of avoidance around the culture? To put it another way, can you snub the local favorite … [Read more...]
Yes, in plenty of ways, but I've outlined eight of them in an article published on the Twelve blog, a site dedicated to an upcoming conference at which I'll be speaking on a similar subject. Check It Out! … [Read more...]
This afternoon I met with some thinkers at Saddleback Church to talk about using social media in ministry. While we were meeting, a thought hit me and I started scribbling in my Moleskine... After I finished with my chicken scratch (a southern term for doodling, scribbling, and designing innovative flowcharts), I snapped a pic and … [Read more...]
I'm not a social media manager, but social media management is a big part of what I do every day in relation to Saddleback and Pastors.com. So I identify closely with this infographic (courtesy of the SocialCast blog. … [Read more...]
Yes. At least once in every 10,000 tweets at least. I don't remember what I posted as my 10,000th tweet, but I remember hitting the 20,000 mark with "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." That's significant. And today, I hit the 30,000 mark with "Jesus Christ is the Way, so walk Him. He is the Truth, so know Him. And He … [Read more...]
Yesterday, we kicked off the first day of Saddleback's annual conference for church leaders, Radicalis. (In fact, you can still see it for free at Radicalis.com for free with the code "RADRICK11".) One of my responsibilities is monitoring the social networking streams for mentions of our conference using the #rad11 hashtag. It's been very … [Read more...]
