Tim Challies has this wise advice on how to take a balanced approach to using social media to enhance, rather than replace, your church community.
“So as you use Facebook, be careful to use it in a supplementary way, a way that supplements your real flesh and blood contact with the people you are seeking to serve. Use it to share event information, to get people remembering last week’s sermons and thinking toward next week’s, to get people singing the songs you sing and praying for what needs to be prayed for. Use it to share photographs of great events and to encourage people to make contact with one another. The ways it can supplement ministry are nearly endless. But all the while use it to push yourself toward, not away from, face to face contact.”
Mikey has some practical tips for building a custom landing page for your Facebook presence.
This site, mediaforministry.org, has some good tips for using Facebook, and WordPress. And you should, of course, all be reading Communicate Jesus already if this kind of post excites you.
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i second the recommendation for communicate jesus — and can vouch that its blogger is just as adept at real life interaction as he is at facebook!