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Website Wisdom - New research, cooperative reveal best practices for churches
Your Church magazine, part of Christianity Today published an article I wrote. The article begins:
Research conducted earlier this year, which surveyed hundreds of churches representing more than 70,000 members combined, attempted to drill deeper into two fundamental questions as the internet grows in its influence and importance in our culture and beyond:
1) Do church websites strategically help attract new visitors, connect people, and equip leaders?
2) And if so, what are the best practices for a church’s web strategy?
Three significant discoveries, as well as several best practices, emerged from this work. This information can help large churches (congregations such as Willow Creek Community Church participated in the research) as well as small ones (church plants with fewer than 50 people also participated). These practices also are useful for most any situation, regardless of whether a church is using a volunteer, a church website design firm, or a staff member to design its site.
The Shape of the Future - A four-part ministry Web strategy
An article in the Fall 2009 issue of Outcomes, the quarterly magazine from the Christian Leadership Alliance. This Fall issue is focused on Ministry Internet and Technology articles. CLA’s 8,800 members represent more than 4,500 organizations from a wide array of Christian para-church ministries and thousands of churches nationwide.
I write a monthly Church Web Strategy column in the Christian Computing Magazine (CCMag). CCMag has helped to keep its readers informed on software, services and other areas of technology, pertaining to how it relates to the Christian community, the church and ministry since 1989. CCMag was THE first Christian magazine on the Internet. Today, it continues to provide a dynamic web presence, providing its readers “value added” services online.
- 10/09 I’m New - The Church Website & New Visitors
- 9/09 Get More Visitors to Your Church Website with Directory Referrals
- 8/09 Your Church Website is Vital for New Visitors
- 7/09 The Truth about Church Websites and Social Networking
In 2004-2005 I wrote a weekly column called Sheep & Goats on religion & spirituality for the San Diego Reader an alternative local weekly newspaper. In it I was able to visit places of worship of numerous religious practices and interview the pastor or other spiritual leader as well as write about my experience. The San Diego Reader covers San Diego life in general, with emphasis on politics and the arts and entertainment. The Reader publishes comprehensive listings of movies, events, theater and music, restaurant and film reviews, and free classifieds. The Reader is the second-largest circulation newspaper in San Diego with a 4-week readership of over 700,000 adults.
- Archive of a number of my Sheep & Goats articles (earlier 2004 articles were not published online).
Blog Posts: If you are new, here are a few posts to read:
Gospel & Self
Preaching the Gospel to Yourself
Telling Gospel Stories
Church, Mission & Ecclesiology (Triperspectival)
The Decline of the Western Church and the Call to renew your Church’s Ecclesiology
Triperspectival Ecclesiology - Being the Church as Corporate, Intimate & Group
Missional Eldership - Leading a Transformational Community
Leading a Movement Not an Institution
Elders - Missional Movements, Plurality of Leadership & First Amongst Equals
Triperspectivalism (Multiperspectivalism)
Note: I created a new category for Triperspectivalism if you’d like to click this and find articles that discuss this topic further.
John Frame's Primer on Perspectivalism (pdf)
How Multi-perspectivalism and Tri-Perspectivalism should shape your Worldview
Triperspectival Hermeneutics
Developing Leaders to lead
Triperspectival Ministry Assessment
How Mutliperspectivalism shapes Church Leadership and how you staff a church
Leadership Conflict Resolution: Prophet | Priest | King
What type of churches NOT to plant (triperpectival)
Deacon Training & Development
The Error of the Uniperspectival Church (David Fairchild)
A Transformissional Church (David Fairchild)
Triperspectival Leadership Essentials(David Fairchild)
Triperspectival Hermeneutics (David Fairchild)
Ministry through the lens of Multiperspectival Epistemology- Part I (David Fairchild)
Technology & the Church
5 Online Trends for the Future of Faith
Technology and the Mission: Conference Session
What is your churches Mullet Strategy?
Church Planting & Ministry
Church Planting Wisdom
Conducting a Church Missional Survey
You Can’t Program the Gospel
Leading Gospel-Centered Church Meetings
The Future Church
Five Trends for the Future of Church Planting
The State of the American Church - Why Church Planting is Critical to the Future of American Christianity
The Future of Spirituality and what is after Postmodernism
Culture
Hollywood: Turning the Christian Faith into a Marketing Gimmick
The Role of the Christian Artist in the Secular World
NPR Interview - Rocky vs Drew Goodmanson
Selling Sponsors some Pulpit Time
Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company. Monk created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew often speaks at conferences and has written for several national publications about how churches/ministries can use the Internet. Goodmanson.com is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs. Kaleo Church is a missional community, multi-site church planting movement in San Diego, CA. More about Drew Goodmanson.
