5 Lessons the Church can Learn from Facebook (Lesson #3)
If you look at the Facebook “F” it looks like a Christian cross with the top bent over. This got me thinking about how FB out churches the church in several things and thought we could learn from them.
Facebook Lesson #1: It is all about the life of the participants and not the CEO.
Facebook Lesson #3: The Facebook community does not have
business hours.
Facebook
is always open. There is not a time day or night that my “stalker feed” is not scrolling
with activities, insights, and photos from my eclectic group of friends.
What the church can
learn from this:
The
Church needs to learn that it is not all about Sunday. The Church needs to be
active 24/7/365 and the only way to do that is by empowering the whole body of
Christ.
Tangible
expression of Facebook Lesson #3:
Empowering
the body of Christ to produce activities, insight, and photos as a living
expression of what it means to be a follower of Christ will take some retraining
in the way we view the Church. Too often the soul responsibility of content
creation is put upon one or two people in a congregation (usually the pastor).
One thing we have done at my church the past several years is an annual 40 day
devotional written by our community for our community. This has proven to be a
grand blessing to our whole church.
Lesson #4 will post
January 9th, 2012
Great concept - facebook lessons for the church. Really like the idea of engaging congregation by creating a 40 day devotional - nice! How much advance time did you need for this? Could it be done prior to Lent?
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Thanks for the comment. It takes a little lead time to get 40 devotionals in, edited, and published. It takes our church about four months to go from idea to publication. Here is a link to a PDF of our last devotional.
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