My article “Social Media for Normal Churches” was posted at Wineskins earlier today. Please click over and check it out.”
While we’re on the subject of Wineskins, Matt Dabbs has invested countless hours in making the archived articles available — and he has finally finished. There’s some remarkable writing on many topics stored there. (Yes, the issue I edited on instrumental music is finally back up. It’s issue 82, from 2010. The several articles by Edward Fudge, while well worth reading, are not part of the instrumental music discussion.)
In addition, Brad Palmore, our webmaster, has installed a page for those looking for ministry jobs to post their availability. The listing has just started, and so it’s a rare opportunity to be near the top of the list.
Thanks Jay!
Jay, is there going to be a follow-up for not-so-normal churches? 😉
Charles asked,
Much harder to give advice to the abnormal, of course. 😉
Google churches and social media and you’ll find plenty of advice for churches so big they can afford for their preacher to spend his days building a Twitter audience and commenting hourly on Facebook.
My experience is that large churches, colleges, etc. see social media as something we need to find a use for rather than using social media to solve existing needs. Tendency is for the need to be cool rather than to shepherd the members and build actual relationships. To use a football metaphor, the team that blocks and tackles best still wins, and churches that manage to build relationships among their members and shepherd their members well will always be better churches than those that have a cool Twitter feed during the sermon.