Last week, I suggested that if a church is not growing, it is dying and I wanted to take a moment to respond to a comment from my friend, Jimmy Taylor. He pointed out that I am a young pastor serving at a high energy church with significant leadership. He is absolutely right. My pastoral identity […]
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Church Conference via Skype
As Pastor of Resurrection Online, I hope to help build a Christian community online where non religious and nominally religious people are becoming deeply committed Christians. A key to this purpose is building community. There has been a good deal of conversation about whether there can be authentic Christian community online, so how about a […]
I am looking forward to the next few weeks at Resurrection Online. In two weeks we are going to be launching a refresh of the Resurrection Online web and mobile page at http://www.rezonline.org. This will allow you to register your attendance and give without opening a new window. It will also position us to begin […]
This is a collection of posts from this blog that you might find helpful when considering beginning online worship or an internet campus at your church. These are collected blog posts from my experience as Pastor of Resurrection Online. Before Launch 4 Ways to Consider “Spiritualising the Internet” Four Narratives for Online Spiritual Community Top […]
The Book of Discipline provides for both paternity and maternity leave for pastors. To initiate the leave a letter from to the Staff Parish Committee is necessary. I have included the text of my letter, in case any one out there is looking to take some time away for the birth of your child. You […]
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Online Worship – Is it Church?
Earlier in the summer I read a blog post, Federal Court: Online Worship is Not a Church, that indicated that an organization that primarily holds internet and radio worship services does not meet the IRS criteria for a church. The United Methodist Reporter had a follow up blog post – Church: What’s your definition? I do […]
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10-10-18 Resurrection Online Update
I am excited about what is happening at Resurrection Online. Currently we are testing out different solutions for encoding our stream. We are currently using a single computer for the production environment, remote camera control and encoding the primary stream that goes out to the interwebz. Beginning with a new encoder and continuing into 2011 […]
This is the first year that we will intentionally collect annual giving commitments from those who worship with Resurrection Online. I am excited to offer this opportunity to grow in faith for those that worship online. This also will help us plan for ministry in the year ahead. If you would like to help support […]
“You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they “are rebellious.” —Ezekiel 2:7 Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen.” –Ezekiel 3:11 “But when I speak to […]
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Resurrection Online’s Five Year Plan
I was inspired by Craig Groeschel‘s post, The Death of the Five-Year Plan. “Instead of planning for specific buildings, campuses, staff roles, and outreach, I’m planning to be prepared for opportunities that I can’t name today. We are creating margin and planning to respond quickly to ideas that we don’t yet have. Speed, agility, flexibility, […]
Image via Wikipedia I appreciated some of the concepts presented by The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago. Here is a sample from the article: “As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want […]
I am glad that Chris Brogan had a good experience with church online at LifeChurch.tv. Chris is a well known social media practitioner and has a good deal of influence in some circles. He wrote about his experience with worship online at Digital Church. I am glad that more people are spreading the word about church […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 