The process of web-empowering ministries does not only encourage a web- church, it uses web technology to facilitate the mission of the Church in the same way that printing is used to share God’s Word on paper. This movement is not about technology. This movement is about doing the ministry of Jesus Christ.
If we can so innovatively apply Internet technologies to empower most of the ministries in the Church, and then we can make those powerful features available to Churches around the world, to be a truly web-empowered worldwide Christian Church. With the amplification of ministry impact resulting from web-empowering, the Church at the moment has the potential to bring many more persons into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to help them grow as His disciples. The potential seems nearly immeasurable! If this is what this movement is about, we must web-empower the Church!
The first technical barrier is getting a basic Church website. Fortunately, as I now see it, several organizations are addressing this barrier by providing low-cost easy-to-create websites. However, there is a second and much larger barrier that must be overcome in order to fully realize the power of the Internet for ministry. The second technological hurdle is the creation of web applications or rather the lack of it, that can really empower Church ministries by making them substantially more efficient, more effectual, and to able to impact countless more people.
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