{"id":352,"date":"2006-01-10T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T01:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2006-01-10T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T01:11:50","slug":"the-church-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/the-church-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church &#038; the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m continually amazed at how little the church is utilizing technology for the furtherance of the gospel.  [On the flip side, this is going to be a BIG year for us as we launch numerous churches on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesia-systems.com\/\">Ekklesia Systems<\/a> platform.  Further, we have a number of other surprises in store that we will be launching to help equip the church for the work of online ministry.]<br \/>\nAccording to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcbaptistpress.org\/bpnews.asp?ID=22412\" rel=\"nofollow\">study about Churches and the Internet<\/a> conducted for LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, <em>1 in 4 churches neglect the ministry potential of the Internet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One out of every four Protestant churches<\/strong> in the United States has virtually <strong>no involvement with the World Wide Web despite the emergence of the Internet<\/strong> as a leading communication medium in the 21st century<\/li>\n<li>Only <strong>half of all churches provide staff with e-mail<\/strong>, and just under half maintain a website. <\/li>\n<li>23 percent of Protestant churches use e-mail prayer chains, 18 percent have an e-mail church newsletter and 4 percent have an online member directory.<\/li>\n<li>Among <strong>content less likely to appear on a church website are Bible study material or helps, sermon transcripts<\/strong>, upcoming sermon titles or topics, sermons available in streaming audio, a bulletin board, forum or chat room, sermons in streaming video, testimonies and a way to donate online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View a chart of this&#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/internetusage.jpg' alt='churches and technology' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m continually amazed at how little the church is utilizing technology for the furtherance of the gospel. [On the flip side, this is going to be a BIG year for us as we launch numerous churches on the Ekklesia Systems platform. Further, we have a number of other surprises in store that we will be launching to help equip the church for the work of online ministry.] According to a new study about Churches and the Internet conducted for LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1 in 4 churches neglect the ministry potential of the Internet. One out of every four Protestant churches in the United States has virtually no involvement with the World Wide Web despite the emergence of the Internet as a leading communication medium in the 21st century Only half of all churches provide staff with e-mail, and just under half maintain a website. 23 percent of Protestant churches use e-mail prayer chains, 18 percent have an e-mail church newsletter and 4 percent have an online member directory. Among content less likely to appear on a church website are Bible study material or helps, sermon transcripts, upcoming sermon titles or topics, sermons available in streaming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}