Is Church Online a Sustainable Model?
Yes, it is sustainable…but only if…
Watch this video for my opinion on what we must do to maintain the success of reaching people around the world with the Gospel story effectively.
My online life group is in the middle of multiplying and starting additonal groups right now. Need help or suggestions for starting a new life group or multiplying your current life group? Send me an email at byers@lifechurch.tv or post a comment below, and we can brainstorm a few options to get the ball rolling!
Dana Byers is a Londoner, co-founder of Blue Door Ministries, and a LifeChurch.tv church online enthusiast! Find her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
I am very glad to have this video today! I want to join a life group for some time but need to find one which fits my European time zone. This is just perfect … going immediately to check out these new lifegroups. Thanks so much! I LOVE Church Online, but I miss a community, I don't feel comfortable with Facebook and Twitter and have a difficult time starting on the board. So maybe a lifegroup will help me here.
Agreed! Dana, I know that your passion and leadership will rub off on us all. If we just rely on the one hour experience we are missing the power of the church. The church is people, and it is best realized in smaller groups who consistently get together in order to know God better.
Be a part of building the foundation for this ministry…400 LifeGroups. This is a doable when we each decide to be a part of a LifeGroup and to have the mindset of multiplication. You are providing a place for anyone around the world who comes to Church Online to plug in, build relationships, and know God deeper.
hurray!
Church Online – a Sunday/weekly experience – is, to me, only a small part of what the Internet Campus (to use the 'old' name) is all about… Church is – to me – a living, lively, day-to-day community. The campus is somewhere we can come together for various reasons – for LifeGroup meetings (following up the experience message), for bible studies, as a place to launch Micro-Missions, as a meeting place for prayer, even just as a place to gather socially in the name of Christ…. Duyring my upbringing as a Catholic, the 'campus' (though not grouped as such) consisted of the church itself, meeting rooms, school(s) and a social club / facilities – I'd be interested to know other experiences of physcial campuses / church communities and also whether other people felt there's space – and more importantly a yearning – for all these things within "Church Online"…?
I'm excited that I am a part of lifegroup. I hope to start my own in the near future. Thanks for the encouraging message, Dana!
Samuel
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Great video Dana.
As a staff member of a growing church, it's interesting to see that a growing online church seems to have many of the same problems as a growing local church; turning consumers into participators. I wonder if it is more or less difficult to get people plugged in through online church.
I look forward to hearing how your Life Group campaign goes.