A Pastors Guide to the Web: Part 1
// April 21st, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Church Life
// Why This Should Matter to The Pastor
This is the 1st installment of a series of posts I’m doing to help pastors get themselves and their churches online and plugged in.
Most pastors know that they need to get plugged into web technology, but they have no idea where to begin. This series is for you. I want to help you engage your city and the world with the gospel. I also have another audience in mind. It’s those that still don’t see the need to get on the web tech bus. Maybe your seminary prof told you the web is a dark and evil place that should be avoided at all cost. Or maybe you just see this as a big fad that will go away soon. Let me address that problem first as a way of providing some context.
Only a crazy hermit could deny that web tech has taken over, particularly in the form of social media and networking. Still, I meet pastors all the time that simply don’t see how participating in that world can possibly benefit their ministry. If they do participate, it’s begrudgingly. They say, “Humph. I guess these days this is the kind of thing you have to do. All the young kids are doing it, so I suppose we should too.” In other words, I don’t see the value in this, but I’ll do it to make people happy. However, I know in my own mind that I’m not going to really give this a shot. I don’t understand it, so it must not be important.