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Go Digital: How to Plant an Online Church
This course is designed to introduce, guide and equip Christian ministers, leaders lay leaders to plant churches through utilization of internet technology.
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce, guide and equip Christian ministers, leaders lay leaders to plant churches through utilization of internet technology. Embracing the reality that the world has fully entered the digital age, communicating the gospel and planting churches through digital medium is essential to reaching the 21st century harvest. Digital church planting is the newest arrow in the quiver, tool on the belt for Great Commission Mission through the planting of new churches. The course begins with an introduction framing a brief history of human communication, in the second lesson a Technology Theology is presented, lessons 3-7 provide guidance and equipping including practical 8 steps implementing 8 skills for planting an online church, and lesson eight gives a summation to the course and final steps to start.
This fundamental ministry course will benefit anyone pastoring an existing church or planting a new church in the 21st century. The course will also be highly beneficial to laity reaching their community and the digital world. The principles and concepts in the course will be beneficial to the future of church planting as well as transportable to contexts throughout the world.
This fundamental ministry course will benefit anyone pastoring an existing church or planting a new church in the 21st century. The course will also be highly beneficial to laity reaching their community and the digital world. The principles and concepts in the course will be beneficial to the future of church planting as well as transportable to contexts throughout the world.
Course Lessons:
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Lesson 1: Gospel Communication in the 21st Century
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Lesson 2: Technology Theology
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Lesson 3: Church Planting in Digital Environments
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Lesson 4: (Step 1) Analyze Your Social Networks (Step 2) Digital Environments
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Lesson 5: (Step 3) Creating Community (Step 4) Cultivating-Affirming Commitment
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Lesson 6: (Step 5) Leadership (Step 6) Multiplication
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Lesson 7: (Step 7) Mentoring and Church Development
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Lesson 8: GO Digital
Course Lessons
Meet the instructor
Dr. Sean O'Neal
This course has been specially designed to equip Christian ministers to be aware and informed about all the potential tax issues that they may face in leading a congregation of believers. Topics such as Federal, State, and Local tax exemptions are discussed as well as payroll tax issues, Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) and other important taxation matters that affect churches.This is a fundamental course that every minister leading a church should take.