Kindle Notes & Highlights
When used right, technology becomes an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it.
Rather than waste energy on what had disrupted the way things had been, Isaac got to work reimagining what might be.
“To reach people no one is reaching, we have to do things no one is doing” . . . right up to the point where we actually have to start doing the thing no one is doing.
In a world of smartphones, smart homes, smartwatches, smart lights and smart cars, the Church has found itself outsmarted.
Or, would a pastor ever suggest that the verse that asks believers to, “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse . . .” (Malachi 3:10) means the Church should only accept cash brought physically to a church building? No! Most churches these days are happy to accept any form of giving, including: electronic bank transfers, Venmo, Cash App, Beamit, Pushpay, Tithely, and more.
I’ve never heard anyone suggest online giving in church is “not real” because when technology changed the way we manage our finances, the Church adjusted accordingly.
Sometimes the greatest opposition to what God wants to do next, comes from those who were on the cutting edge of what God did last.
Right now, the Church needs to be more innovative than ever before, not because of COVID-19 in the world, but because of indifference in the world.
Good production will make quality content, but contextualized content will make a difference.
This is key. A MetaChurch model is not just about using digital tools to connect people with content, but to engage with people online and offline to connect them with a community. At its core, the Church is community, not content.
“Church should not be a pop-up shop that only shows up on Sundays. Digital has decoupled everything. You must think of church in terms of a series of interactions across the week, not a series of contiguous minutes within a specific hour on a Sunday.”
A MetaChurch approach to ministry fully engages people in a church community without necessarily requiring them to step inside a physical environment every single week.
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses. AUTHOR AND PREACHER, FRANCIS CHAN
Our goal as church leaders is to turn people’s smartphones from being a tool for distraction into a tool for discipleship.
In this technological age, our potential influence hinges on our ability to learn a new skill, more than our budget to build a bigger building or increase the size of our staff.
We needed to stop using social media as a megaphone to broadcast our content, and instead, start using it as a telephone to build our community.
I want us to do more than just imagine how to make the most of the cultural moment we are currently in. I want us to dream about what is possible beyond today.
at some point in the 20th century, the Church stopped innovating and started having to play catch up to society.
