Church Web Design: Your Ultimate Electronic Preacher
How important to you is outreaching your community?
Is your ministry electronically empowered to reach out to your "Judea and Samaria"?
Do you have an "Electronic Business Card" web presence, and how far does it extend?
Your Presence. Years ago your church or ministry building was your primary and most permanent curbside business card. Now, however, times and society have changed! Has your church or spiritual ministry changed with it? In today's hyper-cyber-society, an electronic website has taken priority over a printed business card. Your building still carries weight as your curbside business card, but a website has become an even more powerful presence. Are you adequately "presenting" yourself?
Extend Your Boundaries. The second line of Jabez's prayer (now famous due to Dr. Bruce Wilkinson's Prayer of Jabez) is Jabez asking God to enlarge his borders. God was SOOOO impressed by his four-point prayer that GOD GRANTED HIS REQUEST. Pastor, have you considered that your church's website can do exactly as Jabez asked—go beyond a community presence to a global one? In the Old Testament, the Israelites were given limited physical boundaries of their promised land. In the New Testament, God's children are given the entire world to possess. No boundaries! Sort of gives the second phrase of Jabez's prayer "enlarge our borders" a new twist—doesn't it?
Meet Pastor James and His Outreach Ministry. Pastor James has a church nestled in the Ozark Mountains. But don’t be fooled by the location. His church website on average has 20,000 sermons downloaded from it weekly. Yes, read that again, 20,000 downloads of sermons from his church website weekly. Could this mean that he disciples more 20,000+ people on a weekly basis, and weekly preaches 20,000+ sermons? Probably! Do you want this kind of outreach as well in your church? Read on!
Meet Our Florida Pastor. A Florida pastor recently related that his small church did not have enough finances to support a missionary abroad. So they decided to pool their available resources into building an outreach website. At last report, he said his website had over 7,000 message downloads in one month. When I asked him which month this was, he said December. Can you believe it? When you think everybody would be Christmas shopping during December and their downloads would decrease, the very opposite is true. So I asked him if they track their downloads, and he said Yes, and that they are spread evenly across the globe to all major countries. So what's the moral of this story? Several!!! They didn't have enough money to support one missionary to a foreign country—yet through a website, they have a missionary presence around the world. Definitely the pastor and one missionary together could not preach 7,000 messages in any single month—yet their website has no limitations, not even 7,000! Not only that, but after their one-time initial monetary investment, their website continues to preach across the world—for only the cost of Internet service. WHAT A WAY TO SEND OUT A PREACHER!
Here is what Pastor Tommy says...
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Pastor Tommy Lyons praised Kingdom for building a new and improved website for his church that has attracted increased viewing. He complimented the Kingdom process for being smooth and effortless, and stated, "I’m getting a lot of hits on it, too!" Pastor Lyons said that anything that presents the church well and promotes the Lord "is worth every penny!”
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Dave,
Nice insight on how churches can use their websights!