Gathered. And scattered.
The objection to digital ministry is usually made on biblical grounds: the church is a gathering, and a gathering needs a room. Dr. Stephen D. Lowe has spent a career answering that on its own ground — in the Old Testament, in Acts, in 1 Peter, and in the ascension, where Christ is bodily absent and present and directing anyway.
On Becoming theChurch.digital, Jeff Reed talks with Dr. Stephen D. Lowe, co-author of Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age and, with Dr. Mary E. Lowe, of a new book, Biblical Foundations for an Ecology of Digital Ministry, out the day before this conversation.
What we get into: holy place giving way to holy Person; Paul preferring a letter to a visit; whether the objection to digital communion is theological or customary; baptism, which is the harder case; ecology as a better model of spiritual growth than a headcount; and what digital missionaries themselves get wrong.
LIVE Wednesday, October 28 — 2:00 PM ET
Chat is open the whole hour.
Going deeper:
What is a digital missionary? https://thechurch.digital/guides/what-is-a-digital-missionary/
Church online: https://thechurch.digital/guides/church-online/
Hybrid church: https://thechurch.digital/guides/hybrid-church/
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Becoming theChurch.digital is the show for church leaders figuring out digital ministry in public.
This season: The Listening Tour — less broadcasting at digital ministry, more listening to where it actually is.
https://thechurch.digital
@bethechurchdigital
Professor; Online Ministry Theologian
Lynchburg, VA
Stephen D. Lowe (PhD, Michigan State University) is Professor of Christian Education and Graduate Chair of Doctoral Programs at the Rawlings School of Divinity, Liberty University, where he has served in Christian higher education for more than thirty years.
