Online cults part 2: “That Girl”

Continuing our series to help make church leaders aware of the online cults out there vying for the attention of your members, last week we looked at the manosphere, and today we’ll be looking at an umbrella of trends that suck in female church members like That...

Online cults part 1: “The Manosphere”

Today I want to start a bit of a series to help make church leaders aware of the online cults out there vying for the attention of your members, particularly the younger ones. This first one we’ll look at is “The Manosphere.” What is the manosphere?...

Getting welcoming right at your church

Today we are going to look at why in-person welcoming is so important to your online ministry pathway and ways to incorporate technology into it, but first, the story of how one extraordinary welcome paved the way for my career in ministry… There was a time...

Getting your church ready to use Microsoft 365 Copilot

AI has been all the rage since tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have further democratized utilizing AI in everyday workflows. Microsoft has been heavily funding AI research and is the biggest contributor to OpenAI, the company which puts out ChatGPT, GPT-3/4,...

Broadcasting your service doesn’t make it “hybrid”

Okay, so here’s a hot take: having a livestream of the service does not mean your church has a “hybrid” service. What is it about a livestream at the average church would differentiate it from a broadcast on TV, recordings on the website, or the CD...

Using YouTube Shorts in your sermon strategy

“Your sermon was ‘sobering’ and by that I mean it was sooooo booooooring.” It wasn’t the nicest thing I’d ever heard a congregant say, but it was by far one of the funniest. While that one wasn’t directed at me, I’m sure...

Why small groups need to be reinvented around interests

Does this sound like your church’s small groups? You find a group of people who live near you, sit in someone’s living room, and try not to fall asleep during a rehashing of the sermon on Sunday followed by every couple talking about their kids’...

Should church “membership” still be a thing?

Few people really ever question the concept of church “membership” these days. It’s just become kind of a staple of the Western church that we all accept. Despite that, Life.Church ended membership. I must confess, I hadn’t even considered...