It’s not about the website.
Hear me – I am totally, absolutely amped to get our church website up. We’re proud of it. You (my blog readers, facebook, myspace, twitter friends) and I paid for it. It looks great. It’s going to help us reach people. It’s going to put us "out there" in the internet world with other churches….all of that stuff.
But church planting is not about a slick website. It’s about people. It’s about reaching and connecting with people that are far from God and disconnected from the church. No matter how cool our website is, some random business will have a cooler one and we can’t put all of our eggs in that basket.
We have what no one else has, what no one else can duplicate, what others try to mimic, but can’t and that is the amazing, overwhelming, life-changing love of Jesus that can’t be contained on your website or mine.
I want you to keep checking our website for updates, but what I really want you to know is that after we launch this website later tonight is that we designed it for people to connect with our vision and that it is just one of many tools we will use to connect with folk in the city and around the world.
Get a cool website, but just know that church planting is not about the website - it’s about people.
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A very innovative and interesting approach to a church site!! Wow.
Have you any good stories of how your site is reaching people? I would love to cite such examples on Internet Evangelism Day’s site. We also have a church website design online tool at InternetEvangelismDay.com/design to help churches.
Blessings
Tony
Hey Tony!
Thanks for your feedback. We haven’t made our site public yet, but will do so in about 24 hours.
However, we have already had several people express desire to be a part of our launch team after looking over it for bugs and errors! We were shocked.
Hope you are doing well man!
Shaun & Crew