Digital is a confusing concept, and many churches struggle to understand it, with most limiting their digital experience to streaming their church services and nothing more. In this book, you'll learn how to think strategically about digital strategy and how to best integrate digital ideas into your church that align with your ministry's in-person objectives. The goal is to disciple more people and not just get an online audience. Listeners of this book will learn to cut through the hype and discern the most critical, high-level concepts and find practical ideas they can implement in their church. You'll walk away with a vision and a pathway to take your church's digital strategy to the next level and beyond just streaming a church service.

Table of Contents

First This

Chapter 1: Think Digitally

Chapter 2: Thief and Tower

Chapter 3: Understand the Objective

Chapter 4: Knowing Your Audiences

Chapter 5: Picking Your Approach

Chapter 6: Deciding Your Structure

Chapter 7: Creating Digital Space (The 4 S's)

Chapter 8: Power of Online Small Groups

Chapter 9: Getting More People Engaged in Digital Strategy

Chapter 10: Measuring Digital

Chapter 11: Streaming Church?

Chapter 12: Understanding the Gap

Chapter 13: House Churches Connected to Online

Chapter 14: Friction Is a Good Thing

Chapter 15: The Future

Final Thoughts

Appendix 1: Next Step Questions

Appendix 2: Saddleback Church's Online Church Model

Endorsements

"I don't know anyone else who has had more experience and understanding of the strengths and limitations of a local church digital ministry than Jay Kranda. As the online pastor of Saddleback Church for years, Jay built our digital platform and community from the ground up. Jay is truly the authority on this subject—just ask other churches and they'll tell you. This book is essential to understanding the great capabilities, the inherent weaknesses, and the common mistakes churches make with digital ministry."

Rick Warren

Author, The Purpose Driven Life