// guides · 32
The guides_
The definitions, frameworks, and playbooks behind making disciples in digital spaces. Start anywhere — they cross-link.
Guide What is a digital missionary?
A plain-language definition — who they are, what they actually do, and how to tell if you're already becoming one.
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Guide Church on TikTok
What works, what doesn't, and how to do real ministry on the platform — without becoming the cringe pastor everyone's gr…
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Guide Online Pastor Job Description
What the role actually requires, how to write the listing, where to post it, and how to vet candidates. The hiring playb…
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Guide AI for Churches
Tools, theology, and ethical practice. Where AI accelerates ministry, where it shouldn't replace pastoral relationships,…
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Guide The BLESS Framework
A lifestyle of digital evangelism — five practices that turn everyday online presence into missionary work.
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Guide Church on Facebook
Yes, it's still the biggest platform. No, the old playbook doesn't work anymore. Here's what does in 2026.
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Guide Church on Instagram
The platform isn't dying — but the rules have changed. Here's what works for churches in 2026, learned from running our …
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Guide Church on Threads
Underrated, undercrowded, and surprisingly evangelistic. Why we've been on Threads from day one — and how churches shoul…
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Guide Church on Twitch
An entirely under-reached mission field — and one of the most evangelistically promising. Why digital missionaries on Tw…
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Guide Church on YouTube
It's the world's second-largest search engine, the #1 podcast discovery platform, and the place most people now check be…
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Guide Church Online: what it really is, and what it can become
Decoding the models, the metrics, and the missionary opportunity in front of the global church right now.
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Guide Church Podcasting
Format, equipment, distribution, and how to make a podcast that actually makes disciples — from the team behind The Chur…
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Guide Church Social Media Strategy
The 2026 framework. Which platforms get effort, what content actually works, and how to run church social without a 10-p…
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Guide Digital Church Planting
Planting a church online — or a hybrid expression of an existing church — is its own discipline with its own playbook. H…
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Guide Digital Evangelism
Sharing the gospel in connected spaces — done with skill, humility, and patience. The methods that work, the ones that d…
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Guide Digital Microchurch
Small. Focused. Often lay-led. Frequently the most spiritually healthy expression of church we see. Why the digital micr…
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Guide Discord for Churches
The platform most likely to be the front porch of your hybrid church. Setup, structure, moderation, and the mistakes tha…
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Guide The EDGE Framework
Evangelism, Discipleship, Generosity, Empowerment. Four interlocking systems that turn a digital broadcast into a real h…
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Guide What is a hybrid church?
Not "livestream + in-person." A single church family doing real ministry across both rooms and screens. Here's the frame…
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Guide Livestreaming Church
Production matters. Pathway matters more. How to livestream church in 2026 — and what to do AFTER the broadcast ends.
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Guide Online Church Membership
If church online is real church, then church membership online is real membership. Here's how that actually works — past…
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Guide Online Discipleship
Not online attendance. Not livestream views. Real discipleship — formation, transformation, multiplication — happening t…
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Guide Online Ministry Analytics
Numbers that matter. Numbers that don't. And how to measure what your church actually cares about — disciples being made…
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Guide Online Ministry Mistakes
Pattern-recognition from a decade of watching churches do this well and badly. The mistakes everyone makes, the ones tha…
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Guide Care for Online Pastors
Always-on inboxes. Parasocial pastoral weight. Algorithmic exhaustion. The unique pressures of online pastoring — and th…
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Guide Online Pastor Salary
Compensation reality, benchmarking, and how the math actually works. For online pastors negotiating and churches setting…
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Guide How to Become an Online Pastor
The pathway, the training, the experience — what it actually takes to be qualified for this role and where to get equipp…
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Guide Online Pastor
A real pastor doing real pastoral work, in connected spaces. The role, the skill set, and the calling — for anyone consi…
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Guide Online Small Groups
Eight to twelve people. A screen. An hour and a half. Done well, this is the most powerful unit of church online. Done p…
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Guide The TCD Pathway
Connect → Community → Equip → Mobilize. Four stages every disciple walks. The operating system behind TCD's cohorts, out…
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Guide The Theology of Digital Church
Past 'should we?' — into the theological work the church actually has to do. Ecclesiology, sacraments, gathering, embodi…
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Guide VR Ministry — A Practical Guide
People are already meeting Jesus inside virtual-reality platforms. Here's how, where, and how to join the work without m…
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