Finding The Intersection Of Technology and Ministry

"Christianity is fundamentally a communication event. The religion is predicated on God revealing himself to humanity. God has a habit of letting his people know something about his thoughts, feelings, and intentions. God wants to communicate with us, and his media are many: angels, burning bushes, stone tablets, scrolls, donkeys, prophets, mighty voices, still whispers, and shapes traced in the dirt. Any serious study of God is a study of communication, and any effort to understand God is shaped by our understanding - or misunderstanding - of the media and technology we use to communicate."

- Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels

"The medium is the message."

- Marshall McLuhan

Compare the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the guard dog versus the juicy piece of meat carried by a tuxedo wearing waiter to your nicely appointed restaurant table

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363686n&tag=related;photovideo

• contemplation
• construction
• content coordination
• collection
• calibration

who? (contemplation)

vs.

how? (construction)

what? (content coordination)

events...not institutions

http://www.gccwired.com/sex

why? (collection)

where? (calibration)

• Bibles
• Connections
• Presentations

Technology

• PowerPoint
• Keynote
• Prezi
• SlideRocket

Visual

• Stock Photography
• Picnik
• Video/Animation

The screen always wins.

Facebook Uses

• Internal Communications
• Personal Outreach

Facebook Misuses

• Jesus Drive By's
• Website Duplicate

me vs we

Meeting Technology

• Web Conferencing
• Meeting Scheduling
• Mindmapping
• Content Sharing & Storage

Online ChMS

http://wels.church360.org

Signing Up

http://youcanbook.me/about.jsp

Service Ad and Track

http://welstech.tableproject.org

"The shift from the tribe or community to the individual changed the way the church thought about the gospel. The modern age conceived of a gospel that matters primarily for the individual. The gospel was reduced to forgiveness as a transaction, a concern for personal morality, and the intellectual pursuit of doctrinal precision. In this view, the Bible became little more than a personal handbook for moral living and right thinking. On balance, the technology of printing has helped erode the communal nature of faith."

- Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels

key to fruitfulness is faithfulness

Ask the Expert Topics

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Worship Technologies
• Live Streaming
• Getting Your Inbox to Zero
• Paperless Office
• Social Networking Q&A
• What's In My Bag?
• Podcast Roundtable

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Martin Spriggs

martin.spriggs@wels.net

http://signappnow.com/

Arbor Day

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April 30 @ 9:00am

Web

http://www.google.com/analytics

http://www.stonebriar.org

Still the cornerstone of digital outreach strategies

http://www.wordpresschurch.org

http://www.collidemagazine.com

http://www.jotform.com

Finding The Intersection Of

Technology and

Ministry

Author: Shane Hipps