Modeling Community: It Takes a Crowd to Gather a Crowd

There’s an interesting challenge before the Church today. How do you create community online when you don’t have an existing community, Ekklesia, online. While some churches have had success opening their virtual doors and letting the flood gates of people pour in, others have struggled to find effective traffic online. Or, more likely, there’s traffic… but people aren’t engaging.

On a recent episode of THE CHURCH DIGITAL PODCAST Ben Stapley said it best: “It takes a crowd to gather a crowd.”

 

Those of you out there doing Church Online, realize that just as we, the Church, don’t know how to necessarily handle situations in Church Online…

our attenders are new to this concept of Church Online

 as well. To create a culture of engagement for Church Online, sometimes you have to model, create, demonstrate what that engagement looks like Online. So if you’re new to this process of Church Online, or you’re struggling to see engagement, (to Ben’s point) be vulnerable and bring a crowd:

No one wants to be the first. No one wants to be alone. But, if we bring a crowd to gather a crowd, we start down a path where Church Online creates community digitally as well as physically. And that’s a great place to take a crowd.