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3 Myths and 3 Truths About Digital Discipleship
You can make disciples digitally. Here’s how.
Early in the initial COVID lockdown in March, I was talking to a pastor friend. He was super stressed. He’s leading a church plant. They’re not large, and they don’t have tons of resources yet. He was wondering (with good reason) how he could keep things going. He felt he could barely figure out streaming every week, and he had questions. Would people keep coming? Would they come back? What could he do for his church that would keep them from going to the megachurch down the street, or just leaving altogether?
So we talked through some myths and truths, which I’d like to share here. If you’re like other leaders I’ve spoken to, you probably are wrestling with 1 or 2 or maybe all 3 of these. Along the way, we may have to deconstruct some things that you might have assumed. But thinking through these can be not only helpful but liberating as you chart the course for your church or ministry, post-Covid and beyond.
MYTH #1: YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY TRAIN OR DISCIPLE PEOPLE ONLINE
TRUTH #1: YOU ALREADY ARE DISCIPLING PEOPLE ONLINE…BUT YOU CAN MAKE IT STICKIER!
If you’re putting content out online in any form, you’re training people to do something with it. Even if that something is “shrug and forget it.” So are people responding…
