Inside this audiobook, you will find insights for ministry leaders who are considering the use of live streaming as an outreach tool for their church. This audiobook will help church leaders understand how they can leverage the power of live streaming as a visual bridge connecting your church to the world. After listening to this audio, you should be able to answer fundamental questions about why so many churches have adopted live-streaming technology.

This audiobook will provide perspective on best practices for live-streaming church services and helpful reflections on real-life case studies from churches and pastors who are happily filling their pews with new members each week. Learn how to set up a digital donations strategy and enable your social media accounts to accept donations directly through YouTube and Facebook. This audiobook will include actionable checklists for ministry leaders considering live streaming at their organization. It should become clear to you how your church can use live streaming and social media to reach new members and extend your reach to shut-ins.

Social media has become a medium for empowering individuals to like and share the things they believe in. We live in a world that is more connected than ever before. Understanding that everyone on earth is connected in some way, within six degrees of separation, will be an important stepping stone in our thinking about social media. Your church now has the power to reach people in large connected networks which include groups of family members and friends. These are the people that are most important and most influential in lives of your church’s current members and their extended online network.

One of the main reasons why western religion has succeeded so greatly to this day is because it has always taken advantage of emerging technologies.... The medium isn’t the message; it’s the medium that you use to communicate the message. In the 1500s, we saw the printing press emerge, and bibles were being printed for the first time in history. We saw an explosion of what was being made available in written form, with new translations that were suddenly available all over the world.... Over the past 100 years, we have churches moving on to the radio with the early evangelical churches that have now moved into TV and televangelism...and now today we are moving into a new form of communication, where you can distribute your message on digital platforms using social media.

The churches that are the most successful and most resonate with people are the ones delivering their message in the places that people are listening. Those who are producing content in a form that is consumable and makes sense in the day and age that we live in will be prospering from the fruits of new communication pathways.