What does it look like to staff a church to have a phygital impact? Let’s kick around some staffing concepts to maximize your staffing structure for physical + digital ministry. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL
As churches are rushing to get back to the building, let’s stop... pause... and ask the question: “Do we really need a building?” Can a church “be the church” without a building? The early church was many things... can we do these things digitally? Let’s dig into the Digital Ecclesiology of a Social Media Church. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL...
Is your church wrestling with Phygital? Trying to figure out if hybrid is for your church? What does our mindset need to be? Learn the foundational characteristics that will help your church thrive, grow and multiply PHYGITALLY. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL...
The idea of digital-only churches... churches without physical footprints, are not new by any stretch. As a matter of fact, there are healthy examples of digital-only churches not only here in America but around the world! But practically speaking, who are they and how do they work? Here are some key examples of digital-only churches highlighting how they are digital churches within the specific contexts of their digital community. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show...
Pastor, you’ve got an incredible responsibility to create disciples. Why not use every tool available to make that happen? Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL
Stadia is championing a new word here. PHYGITAL was so much fun, let's talk MULTIMODAL, multiple models of church... in this new, post-COVID culture we live in, it is going to be so important for churches to develop multiple strategies, moving beyond just the physical building. Let's talk three reasons why your church needs to diversify it's ministry... three reasons why your church needs to go multimodal. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Av...
Are our physical services effective? Typically, we measure butts in seats to get that number. Did more people come this week than last week? You’re heading in the right direction. In most situations, butts in seats is a horrible analytic. That being said, it’s necessary… but there are others! What are we looking at? What stats should we be looking at and how do we measure them? This is where we bring in the experts. RESI has been helping stream church services for years, and they’ve gotten quite...
In this new, Post-COVID society, the role of Digital Pastor is becoming more and more complicated. How do you push digital when so much pressure is going back to physical? This is the heart of the conversation with Brandon Arndt. Brandon is new in his role, having recently become the Digital Pastor at Christ Fellowship Miami as Rey De Armas transitioned out of his role recently. To celebrate the occasion, we take a trip down memory lane discussing everything from mentoring to Post-COVID culture ...
As a general rule, it’s tough being a Pastor. This COVID season has been tough on the church. As a result, a number of churches are shutting down… also concerning, a number of Pastors are resigning. And while burnout or deconstructing faith is relevant in the life of ministry in 2021, there are others that are reframing their calling. THECHURCH.DIGITAL’s own Rey De Armas is on a similar journey. Recently resigning from his full-time church staff position, Rey is not walking away from ministry… i...
There’s a disruption happening within the Church, and it honestly has very little to do with technology. As churches are re-opening their physical doors with mixed results, some pioneers are disrupting the church scene, launch Digital-Only, Location-Independent Churches. Are you a disruptor in the making? Here are five reasons you may be a digital church planter in the making. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL...
Potentially, what can separate a Physical Church from a Digital-Only Church? The ability to disciple people to the point of getting them on-mission… to help them discover their personal mission? This is why I see a similarity between Microchurch Movements and Digital-Only Churches… because we have the opportunity to relationally scale digital to the place of helping find their personal mission. But how do we do that in the Microchurch space? Enter Rob Wegner, one of the leaders of Kansas City Un...
“Jeff, we’re just too small of a church to take advantage of what Digital has to offer.” Many pastors have shared this perspective with me, but their logic is fundamentally flawed. The small church’s perceived weakness is actually their strength, the reason why they can be successfully digitally. Can a small church be successful digitally? Absolutely! Let’s talk about how. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL...
75% of the people I talk with, who are interested in planting a Digital-Only Church, are interested in being bi-vocational or co-vocational. They’re not looking to give up their full-time job to do ministry, instead they’re wanting to do ministry alongside (or even through) their job. So I set out to better understand the heart behind co-vocational ministry. Having spent 15 years on various church staffs, I can honestly say I don’t have a solid perspective, and my learning accelerated quickly ta...
As social distancing relaxes, and churches re-open their buildings, what lessons have we learned from these digital-only churches? These ecclesia's without a physical footprint? Are these culturally valid? Biblically solid? Come learn why Digital-Only Churches are necessary, and what this means to you. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL...
There are lots of solutions out there for digital churches. In my opinion, none of them is a game changer like Altar Live. The biggest problem in all of church online is how do we get people to stop “watching church is isolation.” In this COVID season, Altar Live grabbed the bull by the horns and solved that problem in a big way… oh, and along the way they solved some of your church’s online small group problems too. Looking for a solution to take your Digital Church deeper? Get people out of ex...
Masks are finally loosening up. Social Distancing guidelines are weakening. Yay! It’s time for physical church again!!! Let’s not forget the lessons of phygital, though. Here are seven reasons why your church STILL needs to be a Phygital Church. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes Available on THECHURCH.DIGITAL....
If you are reading this, if you are connected somehow to THECHURCH.DIGITAL, then you probably realize this already. If not, let me tell you… you are more than a techie. In my own life, I’ve wrestled with this. And in our physical, phygital, digital-only, multimodal churches we as techies come to this place where we realize we are more than button pushers. I think this is what makes this conversation with Curtis so interesting. Starting out as a Creative, growing to a Techie… Curtis discovered Go...
Is it gambling or is it the future? Get a better understanding of what Cryptocurrency is, and how your church can benefit from it. Join Jeff, Rey, and Dunham + Co’s Nils Smith talking cryptocurrency and the church. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes Available on THECHURCH.DIGITAL.
There are some that consider Video Gamers to be one of the largest unreached people groups on the planet. While it can be discussed that Gamers may not officially be a people group, we can wholeheartedly agree that Gamers need Jesus. And that’s the heart of Pastor Souzy. Lead Pastor of God Squad, Pastor Souzy has grown his digital-only church by reaching, shepherding and discipling Gamers. Using Twitch Streams and Discord Communities, God Squad probably looks nothing like your church, but that’s...
2016 we were doing Kids Church Online at Christ Fellowship Miami. What a crazy idea! Well, the idea was certainly before it’s time, and Kids Online was shut down less than six months after we started… Truthfully, the idea wasn’t bad. Just before it’s time. Christ Fellowship re-engaged the old playbook back when COVID started, made some adjustments and now have a phenomenal product aimed at connecting with Kids Online. So jump on while we revisit the past and talk a bit about what the future of K...
The Church Planting Textbook for the Modern Era has been released. Peyton Jones’ Church Plantology is out, and with it comes years of insight and experience wrapped up as a readable resource. But what does this mean for digital only expressions? Peyton and I (Jeff) were hanging out in a RCA (Reformed Church in America) webinar the day before this recording having a fun conversation centered around digital church planting… so much so we ended up doing a whole other conversation on this podcast ce...
How do we measure success? Are metrics important? Where is the Holy Spirit in a world where data is king? Look, we know the rules of engagement have changed. Nickels and noses may be solid metrics, but they can’t be the only metrics. And this really begins to scratch the surface. What are we, the church, actually trying to achieve here. Into the conversation, let’s bring Craig Whitney, VP of Planter Development at Stadia. Who better to speak to the effectiveness of churches than the leader of th...
I ran into Dave on Twitter, talking similarities between Micro-church and Digital-Only churches. But what started out as a digital/micro convo quickly got much larger talking about many other models of church. What lessons is Community Christian learning? What are they looking to get into next? What’s the minimal/essential ecclesiology that aligns biblically without limiting multiplication? At what point is Jeff going to launch a digital-only church through Community Christian? These are many of...
I thought I knew what to expect with Jared & Angie. Leading one of the largest (if not the largest) digital only expression of church in America, I was expecting the couple to fit the mold a digital pastor… what we see so often in our Phygital Churches. To be honest, Jared & Angie, and much of this conversation, was a complete surprise. There are people planting digital churches who see themselves as disruptors. They’re proud that they’re doing something different. They wear it as a badg...
Our churches know what it looks like when God moves in a physical space, but maybe we’re so busy producing the digital elements that we miss what God is doing in front of us, digitally. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes Available on THECHURCH.DIGITAL.
Founder of The First Impressions Conference, and one of the early Church Online guys, Greg is an expert in Church Guest Services, physical & digital. What are visitors looking for in digital church? Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes Available on THECHURCH.DIGITAL.
We talk often here at THECHURCH.DIGITAL about digital-only churches, interviewing these innovative pastors that run churches that exist in digital-only space. Stories like DJ Soto and Angela Craig certainly are inspiring. But, how do you get started in planting a Digital-Only church? Enter Stadia. We are passionate about planting multimodal (multiple models of) churches, even to the place of helping church planters start digital-only churches. Which brings us to this podcast where we talk with t...
The Bible calls us to go and make disciples … no one questions that. How we define discipleship? While the church doesn’t challenge to make disciples, there are plenty of disagreements on what exactly a disciple is. Enter into the conversation Kevin Marsico, US Director of The Timothy Initiative. Used around the world, The Timothy Initiative is used to create disciples and plant churches physically and digitally… domestically and internationally. The Western Civilization Church is struggling, an...
Let’s come to clarity. The Western church has done some things right over the years. That being said, there’s still a lot to learn. The mass accelerator of COVID changed all the rules, and as a result the church has more questions than answers, especially in the long-term usefulness of digital church. While some of the Western Church struggles with the long-term longevity of Phygital/Digital, the global church has had huge success with the digital church. Digital discipleship? Digital evangelism...
COVID accelerated culture, but how has this cultural shift influenced physical church services? Look beyond masks & social distancing and find opportunities to creatively connect in physical space. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here . Complete Show Notes Available on THECHURCH.DIGITAL ....
