Church Leaders
Digital ministry isn't a side project for the tech person — it's a leadership question. The posts and episodes for pastors and church leaders learning to shepherd people who increasingly live online.
📝 Articles · 840
Someone Asked Your Church a Real Question. Did Anyone Answer It?
Being findable is half of it. If the answer to a real question at 1am is a contact form and an invitation to Sunday,…
Someone Found Your Church in a Language You Do Not Speak
Reaching someone in their own language used to depend on a bilingual volunteer happening to exist. That is the…
You Gave Them the Password. You Didn't Give Them the Ministry.
Most churches hand a volunteer the login and call it empowerment. Three things actually transfer a ministry, and almost…
You Cannot Listen to Someone While You Are Drafting Your Reply
The L in BLESS is listen. Online the test is simple: before you reply, can you state their point in a sentence they…
The Biggest Group in Your Church Is the People Who Came Once
Somebody watched a whole service online for the first time and nothing happened next. Not from indifference — because…
Your Giving Receipt Is the Most-Read Thing Your Church Writes
Everyone who gives online opens the receipt. Nothing else your church publishes has that reach — and at most churches,…
You Already Answered That Question. Nobody Can Find It.
Most churches have years of careful teaching locked inside video files. Transcription does not give you new content —…
How Do I Keep an Online Group From Dying After a Month?
Online groups die in the gap between meetings, not during them. A group held together only by its meeting is a calendar…
Your Feed Is Already a Prayer List. You Just Didn't Write It.
The B in BLESS is begin with prayer. Online that means five names — actual handles of actual people — prayed for before…
Your Ministry's Ceiling Is Your Calendar. That's What AI Actually Moves.
AI's real value to a church is not that it writes faster. It is that most digital ministry is capped by one person's…
Nobody Is Searching for Your Church. They're Asking a Question.
Search stopped being a list of links and became an answer. If your site doesn't answer a question in plain words, it…
Your Church's Website Might Be Blocking AI. Mine Was.
I spent an evening building a dashboard to prove AI was reading my site. It wasn't. Cloudflare was turning every AI…
The moment I realized I couldn’t keep doing digital ministry like this
When you realize you can’t keep going like this… what do you do next? I didn’t get there slowly. I crashed. Hard. The…
How your church can support digital missionaries
For most of church history, mission work had a clear shape. Missionaries went somewhere—another country, another…
What Gospel Conversations Look Like in Digital Spaces
What if evangelism didn’t start with a sermon, but with a message? What if the Gospel conversation was already…
Equipping Digital Missionaries: Breaking the Rules to Share the Gospel Online
Are you ready to break the traditional mold and join a digital revolution for Jesus? The world is shifting, and…
25 theChurch.digital Promises for 2025
Was 2024 the year of theChurch.digital? New website. A fresh community launch. A laser focus on digital missionaries.…
Revolutionizing Digital Churches: Embracing Community Over Pulpits
Have you ever felt like today’s church is missing out on something big? The conversation around digital ministry and…
The Future of Faith Beyond the Four Walls
Is your understanding of discipleship stuck in a building? In a world that's constantly evolving, digital discipleship…
Reshaping Evangelism in the 21st Century
What if evangelism could happen with a single swipe? Imagine a world where reaching out to the unreached has no…
Can Church Exist on Twitch?
Can a church really exist, and thrive on Twitch? In a changing world, the idea of a "digital church " is growing in…
How Digital Missionaries Handle Privacy and Personal Concerns
In digital ministry, the role of a digital missionary has never been more crucial. These trailblazers don’t just spread…
Do Digital Missionaries Need to Be Tech Savvy?
Do digital missionaries need to be tech-savvy to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape? Well every…
The Future of Faith
What is digital discipleship in an age of online connection? In today’s ever-evolving and complex digital landscape,…
Success in Digital Ministry
How do we measure success in digital ministry? Success in digital ministry goes beyond numbers. While followers, likes,…
Building Connections in a Digital World
How do we come to terms with the idea of digital discipleship? Today’s digital world is revolutionizing discipleship.…
Discipleship in Digital Spaces
Have you noticed how much life happens online? Digital spaces are where people connect, learn, and live—making digital…
Privacy in Digital Ministry: Building Trust in Online Spaces
Question to start Can digital ministry truly protect privacy—every click, every prayer request? The shift to digital…
Social Media Is NOT Digital Community
What social media is perfect at! Don’t hear me wrong. Social media is vital! Social media is good at connecting with…
What Exactly Is a Digital Missionary?
The Potential of a Digital Missionary One of the largest unreached people groups in the world today can be found…
Digital Missionaries and the Future of theChurch.digital
This past week, we unveiled the ninth version of theChurch.digital. Since I acquired the domain name in February 2018,…
5 Online Ministry Insights from August 2024
Summer is over and school has started for almost every school-aged child. As families have been busy getting ready for…
Investing in Apprentices
In ministry, investing in apprentices is so important. See how and why as Christopher Wesley shares. Subscribe to TCD…
How to Share Your Church's Mission Through Digital Communications
Digital communication is vitally important in today's world. It gives your church unprecedented opportunities to share…
Caring for Others Online
Caring for others is a great ministry opportunity for all ministry leaders. These are ministry opportunities in-person…
5 Online Ministry Insights from July 2024
The summer is almost over and school is getting ready to get started. That means last minute travel plans, back to…
Should Your Church Be Using Threads - July 2024 Update
In July 2023 Meta launched Threads. Threads is the latest Twitter/X "rival" that is primarily text-based and provides a…
Using AI for Effective Church Social Media Outreach
Social media has become an essential tool for churches to connect with their congregation and community. It has become…
Overcoming the Scrutiny of Digital/Meta Churches: Let's Multiply Disciples
Planting a digital-only/metaverse church is a controversial proposition. We've all had those conversations. Frustrating…
The Power of Authenticity
One thing that came out of the Covid pandemic was that people became more transparent, honest and authentic. That…
Digital Discipleship Opportunities Over the Summer
The summer months can be challenging for ministers. There are a lot of staff, volunteers and regular church attenders…
How to Use TikTok for Digital Discipleship
Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, reaching and discipling the younger generation requires new and innovative…
Achieving Movement: The Heart of theChurch.digital
We personally started theChurch.digital because of a simple idea: We wanted to see the idea of digital church & digital…
Youth Ministry in a Digital World
Youth ministry has changed a lot over the years, especially since Covid. So what does youth ministry look like today?…
Best Practices of Highly Effective Online Communicators
Here are some best practices we are seeing among churches for delivering digital sermons online.
5 Online Ministry Insights from June 2024
The summer heat is an inferno right now. While the temperatures are hot, there is a lot happening in the digital and…
How to Develop Community on Discord
Community is a vital component to churches. It has been since the creation of the first Church in Acts 2. It is through…
Async and Your Church: What Do You Need to Know?
I'm not sure if you knew this, but async is not going anywhere. And YOU need a plan for your church to thrive in this.…
🎙️ Episodes · 92
EP374 - The Listening Tour Begins: Platforms Are Places
EP373 - GTA 6, Dating AI, and the Loneliest Job in Ministry
EP372 - Jeff is Not Dead Yet!
Are you losing patience or learning to trust God’s timing?
Rethinking Evangelism: What the Gospels Teach Us About Mobilizing in the Digital Age
If you feel like you’re not capable, start anyway. Start small. Start somewhere.
No Trust, No Healing. Confidentiality Matters. #ChurchCommunity
Sometimes Saying No Is Wisdom, Not Weakness. #HealthyBoundaries
Episode 6: Building A Digital Discipleship Community (The Digital Pavement Podcast)
No One Is Disqualified From Serving God. #FaithInAction
Episode 5: Moving From Online Worship To Online Discipleship (The Digital Pavement Podcast)
Forget the Perfect Pastor | Here's What Actually Grows Communities
Can Jesus Redeem Your Culture Too? #ChristianLiving
Episode 3: The Hybrid Church & Building Digital Hubs (The Digital Pavement Podcast)
Episode 2: Pioneering A Digital Church Movement (The Digital Pavement Podcast)
Episode 1: What Is the Digital Pavement Podcast? (The Digital Pavement Podcast)
EP371 - Jeff & Flatcap Talk TCD Streaming Network, Surgery, and Sabbath
Ctr+l Alt+ Redeem: Reaching People Churches Can't
EP370 - Becoming theChurch.digital - The 2026 Preview
theChurch.digital's 2nd Annual 12 Hour Giving Tuesday Livestream
EP369: Jeff Talks What's Next - Streaming Network & Giving Tuesday
EP368 Live Recording: What's Next? Decentralizing TCD
Experimenting and Improvement - Jate Earhart
How Will You Reach Them? Are You Reaching Them? - Chris Thompson
🧭 Guides · 3
Community
Join The Fam on Discord and WhatsApp — daily community for digital missionaries. Cohorts, peer support, and prayer for…
Digital Neighborhoods Summit 2025
Four sessions on reaching the community next door — digitally. How physical neighborhoods now also live in specific…
European Digital Missionary Summit 2025
Four sessions on digital missions in post-Christian Europe. The European chapter of the digital missions movement,…
