church technology

Online educators have uncovered various best practices that elevate the experience of digital learners and are effective regardless of a student’s learning venue. Whether you’re teaching an online Bible study, leading a digital discipleship course, or offering your church members a theology class, these tips and tools will help you to communicate powerfully in an online format.

Theological instructors, relative to those in many other disciplines, have perhaps had more experience with online education. However, there are still many for whom online education represents uncharted territory or a medium for which their skills and use of resources are “good enough.”

Digital bulletins provide a connection point with your congregation at your services. Unlike a traditional printed bulletin, a digital service bulletin includes interactive elements, conveys important information to your church, allows people to take live surveys, download contact or calendar information, interact with Bible Trivia, and much more.

Gone are the days where online ministry was only about recording a sermon and making it downloadable on your church website. These days, the term ‘online ministry’ encompasses a variety of ways churches reach people through social media, courses, podcasts, and video (to name just a few).

With the right apps and technology, Bible study teachers, pastors, or professors can help students understand lived experiences from different moments in history. In this article, Professor Ehorn recounts a moving visit to Paris and the innovative ways he was able to incorporate teaching with technology to enable students to travel to another era in time through visualization.

Discipleship is a PROCESS. Sometimes we get caught up in the inevitable “two steps forward and one step back” aspect of growth, or people’s tendencies to skip around their discipleship plan.

Everything Pushpay does is driven by its purpose to bring people together by strengthening community, connection, and belonging. As part of a new campaign to showcase how churches are making that happen, a team of Pushpay associates hit the road.

The creation of a digital discipleship plan is currently a popular conversation in most churches. The pandemic has highlighted the benefit of and need for a discipleship plan through digital means.