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What Role Do Content Creators (Creatives) Play?

11/15/2019

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Jamie Jean Schneider Domm

Digital Strategist, Social Media + Big Data, North American Division

Digital Evangelism & Discipleship - Content Creators Role
People search online for answers to their problems. What better place for the Church to share its message of hope and wholeness?
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Our message is the gospel. It’s the role of creatives to package it in ways that connect with our audiences by using the platforms, tools, language, and media that are culturally relevant and accessible to them. Today, that means presenting the gospel message and teachings of Jesus via various digital friendly formats such as video, blogs, images, podcasts, etc. Remember, good communication is when you communicate in a way your audience understands. That requires adaption, whether it’s the physical mission field or the digital one. 

Content As Mission: Think Differently

Before we get into the practical application of content creation, I want to challenge the status quo for a moment. Only 20% of Americans regularly attend church, and only 2 in 10 millennials consider regular church attendance important. What if your digital content is the only exposure to the gospel a person receives? How important it is, then, to post consistently! The predominant way the Church uses digital communications currently is to promote events. Promoting events is okay, and we should continue doing that as part of a comprehensive communication strategy. However, we can and should go beyond promoting events to create content that is meaningful and relevant to people’s daily lives and challenges. After all, our message is the gospel, not “Come to our next event!”

The truth is, some people may never come to church, but we can still touch their lives. How would you witness if your local church service, events, and Bible studies did not exist? What would you want your community to know about Jesus? We’re called to preach the gospel, especially to those outside the church body. What ways can you accomplish that? Strategize, find solutions, and fulfill them intentionally.

Put Jesus/God on Display

​The life, character, and gift of Jesus Christ should be on display in your digital content and interactions. Jesus came not to uplift Himself, but to reveal an accurate picture of God’s character. It’s not about how many followers you have on your digital platforms, but how people can and do discover Jesus through you. It’s about portraying the truth of God’s character in all aspects of our lives, including in the digital space. 
Jesus sought first to fulfill people’s needs; He then invited them to follow. 
We’ve been going about digital missions backwards. We’re spending most of our time and energy promoting events, resources, or products, when we should be ministering first to the needs of our community, just like Jesus demonstrated.
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During His three-and-a-half-year ministry, Jesus:
  • shared stories
  • shared Godly (and scripture-based) wisdom
  • attended to people’s needs, physically and spiritually
  • answered people’s questions regarding spiritual matters and everyday challenges
  • gave them hope
  • created community
  • developed an engaged/active church body
  • lead people to wholeness
  • equipped people to be disciples and to replicate the model He developed
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We can use social media and digital tools to achieve our mission of spreading the gospel and helping people by creating content that focuses on mental, physical, and spiritual needs first. Once this foundation is established, we can invite our audience to “taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8, NIV). When used for digital discipleship and evangelism, this shift in focus is a way we can follow Jesus’ example for everyday ministry to real people. We can use social influence for kingdom building while utilizing modern tools and technologies.

Christianity is a Lifestyle

Creatives can use their talents online to encourage Christian lifestyles in their community. When asked:

“Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:28-31, ESV).
 
True Christianity is about helping those in need and seeking ways to elevate the well-being of others, all while reflecting the character of Christ. One way to do that is to create sharable content. But what is shareable content? In other words, what kind of online content do people tend to interact with and share with their friends? What makes content relevant or worthy of sharing?
 
Hootsuite reported on an extensive study conducted by the New York Times to uncover the top reasons people share content online.
 
The top five reasons why people share online are:
  • “To improve the lives of others.” (94%)
  • “To get the word out about causes they believe in” (84%)
  • “To grow and nourish relationships.” (80%)
  • “To define themselves.” (68%)
  • “Self-fulfillment.” 
 
The number one reason people share content is that they feel it will improve the lives of their followers/friends. Amazingly, this is a core Christian value and could be developed in coordination with digital media for the gospel message. As digital evangelists and disciples, it’s an essential part of our mission to share and create content that will uplift, help, and/or improve the lives of your audience (and their audiences). Eighty-four percent of participants in the NYT study also said that they share information “because it is a way to support causes or issues they care about” (New York Times), which directly relates to the first reason. Think about how your mission aligns with the core values of your target audience and create content that supports these values. In fact, the Church should be the clear leader in using its digital influence to create media content that improves the lives of others and advocates for meaningful causes.
 
Sharing content online is also a means by which many maintain and create relationships. This is an incentive for us to create content that helps foster connections between members of our community, our brand, and Christ. Encourage engagement and conversation as much as possible. Additionally, people use their social influence to help create an “idealized online persona” of themselves. Evaluate your audience’s interests and develop content that fits with their goals or identity. Ask: “How can our organization’s content demonstrate what it means to be a follower of Christ?” or, “How can our ministry’s content create value for those already invested in supporting our mission and interested in becoming more involved in our community?”
 
Finally, the same research found that “consumers enjoy content more when they share it, and that they enjoy content more when it is shared with them.” When we create audience-focused content that facilitates this sense of positive community and interactions, we can help encourage our audience’s natural desire to share our content for perceived personal and social value.
 
These five key motivations clearly show that your audience’s main reasons for sharing are their relationships with other people—not your brand. Keep this in mind as you continue creating and sharing audience-focused content.
— Dara Fontein, Hootsuite

​The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a solid message that can easily meet the top motivations for sharing content online, but presentation is everything. It’s up to content creators to package our messages so that they clearly align with the type of content people want to share. The tools and technologies will continue to change, but people and their deepest desires and motivations generally remain the same. 

Empathy: Think Like a Seeker

Always remember: empathy first. Put yourself in a prospective visitor/viewer/engager’s place and seek to understand their needs and/or experience. Figure out what their barriers to entry or barriers to faith are, and try to diminish or address them through the content you create, services you provide, and the relationships you build. Create an online space for community, love, support, and understanding through your content.
 
When creating, consider who might engage with your media.

Ask yourself:
  • What questions might my audience have that I can answer?
  • What questions could they have about my church or beliefs?
  • What questions might they have about God?
  • What would encourage them to attend a church or reach out to a Christian to better understand Jesus, salvation, or the Bible?
  • What issues are they facing?
  • What could encourage or help them in hard times?
  • What are their barriers to faith or barriers to entry in my church?
 
Our goal as content creators is to reveal who God really is in a world that often views God, or religion in general, as vindictive, cruel, and uncaring.

Don’t just create content for content’s sake. Consider:
How will your audience change as a result of your [article/letter/post/video]?  —Seth Godin, marketing guru
Or, more directly applicable to our mission, ask:
​How will their attitude and perceptions of God change because of your [article/letter/post/video]?
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What Is Digital Discipleship?

5/13/2019

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Rachel Lemons Aitken

Communications Executive of the Greater Sydney Conference and Founder of the Digital Discipleship.

What is Digital Discipleship?
Before we answer the question, what is Digital Discipleship, we must ask, are we on the answering end of the searches taking place online? Are we providing hope in the comment section? Do our videos and websites answer questions? And are our social media accounts making people feel like they’ve found a digital church home?

On average, Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second.  2.5 billion people use either Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger or the Facebook app. And Youtube processes more than 3 billion searches a month. Digital Discipleship allows us to have a strategic and influential voice in online conversations.
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It’s clear we have something to say, but are we putting ourselves out there? And when we do venture to say something, is it being heard?

Disciples in the Age of Gifs and Memes

Digital Discipleship is a movement to make disciples and inspire people to grow in discipleship.

This mission remains the same as the call to discipleship over 2,000 years ago.  The objectives haven’t changed, but the environment is noisy.

The audience we are trying to reach is inundated with a fire-hose-sized flow of information. Everyone online is an “expert” with something to say.  And all of this is before we factor in on-demand TV like Netflix, Hulu and Stan providing endless entertainment at our fingertips.
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When we’re playing with the big boys, and we need to come prepared.

We know that the compelling story of Jesus is necessary and more relevant now than ever before. And while Digital Discipleship allows us to talk to large, targeted groups in unprecedented ways, it’s imperative that we become more savvy in our methods in the online space.
Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people.  The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good.  He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence.  Then He bade them, “Follow Me."
Christ’s method is still applicable in the age of memes, gifs, FaceTime and Whatsapp chats, but now we must cut through the noise.  We must win the hearts of people in a new environment.

Just as John the Baptist was “a voice of one calling in the wilderness to prepare the way for the Lord,” we too are calling out preparing the way for Christ’s return.

In order to avoid having our voices drowned out we need to pump up the volume, be more strategic in our call and engage the right people.  And we are uniquely positioned to do this through Digital Discipleship.

Digital Discipleship 101

I want you to think of this as your Digital Discipleship primer.

From here, you’ll be able to dig deeper into other subjects and learn how you can get involved, support and even set-up your own Digital Discipleship ministry.

We’ll give you an overview of Digital Discipleship, how it works and lay out a vision of what it can become.
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Most importantly, we hope you’ll feel compelled to join the conversation and add your voice to the collective loud cry about the never-ending love of Jesus Christ and His soon return.

How to Join the Conversation Online

How to Join the Conversation

The internet is a huge place.

Imagine it as a large, crowded room with everyone jumping in to have their say. With this picture in mind it’s almost inevitable that our voice could get lost in the noise.

The message of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and more broadly Christianity, has spread around the world – taught in marketplaces, shared from friend to friend, preached in churches, whispered about in catacombs and witnessed secretly in homes.
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It has been communicated most effectively when spoken to people in their own language.

The Language of the Internet

The internet is like a country with its own language and culture.  It may not occupy a geographic space, but it has its own social norms. There are ways to jump into a conversation and be heard and understood.
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To start off, there are four levels at which Digital Discipleship can be executed:
  1. Digital Discipleship at the Corporate Level
  2. Digital Discipleship at the Church Level
  3. Digital Discipleship at the Ministry Level
  4. Digital Discipleship at the Individual Level
Four Levels of Digital Discipleship Picture
We’re going to start by breaking down each area because each one requires a different way of communicating.

Digital Discipleship at Different Levels

The beauty of Digital Discipleship is that it leverages both the size and the intimacy of our church.  It’s powerful both when executed at the entity level and when it engages the individual member.

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1. DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP AT A CORPORATE LEVEL
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When we speak about the Corporate Level of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, we’re talking about the General Conference, Divisions, Unions, and Conferences.

Each have roles they are uniquely positioned to do, such as:
  • Communicating organisational strategies, goal and objectives so that they can determine the appropriate digital strategy.
  • Developing digital strategies that include content strategies, digital marketing strategies and keyword strategies, including identifying key terms the church should rank for in digital searches.
  • Providing events designed to train and inspire digital disciples and support and encourage digital ministries.
  • Funding and empowering ministries that are uniquely positioned to reach specific groups of people.
  • Expertly creating content, such as TV programming, videos, articles, social media posts, etc.
  • Providing the space and funding for the development of effective, innovative ideas.
  • Distributing content through available platforms and developing new platforms and software as opportunities arise.
  • Funding ideas and ministries that are trailblazing in the digital space, in the same way missionaries to foreign countries are funded.

Not only do we believe that our communication will be amplified when we work within various contexts, we also believe it allows Digital Discipleship to continue functioning within the Digital Discipleship Ecosystem.

​2. DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP AT A CHURCH LEVEL

The church is the strongest building block of our organisation and through Digital Discipleship there are many opportunities to benefit the church, the members as well as those who are being reached.

The church is uniquely positioned to do many things, such as:
  • Empower members to share their relationship with Jesus on their social media platforms.
  • Use online platforms, such as websites and social media sites to distribute content the church has created as well as content created by other content creators.
  • Attract people to engage with the local church through the content on its website and social media platforms.
  • Provide opportunities for spiritual growth through group networking on platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook and YouVersion.
  • Allow creatives and techies an opportunity to contribute to the mission of the church.
  • Meet the needs of the local community around a digital need, either in a physical space or online, like running an in-person or online presentation about how parents can keep their kids safe in the online space.
  • Meet the needs of the local community around any need delivered in the online space, like a health seminar or cooking demonstration presented via a webinar.

​3. DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP AT A MINISTRY LEVEL

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Many individuals feel compelled to start ministries to address specific community needs in service to the church. Because of the targeted focus of these ministries, they are uniquely positioned to participate in the Digital Discipleship ecosystem by:
  • Creating specialized content that can be delivered both in the digital space and in person to address general needs or needs related to creativity, technology or any related field.
  • Providing a larger platform to distribute content created by either individuals, the church or the corporate body.
  • Providing a personal ministry opportunity for church members to grow in discipleship and create more disciples.

​4. DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP AT A PERSONAL LEVEL

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In traditional media, the big boys can make the most noise – whoever can outspend their competitors is most likely to win.

However, the digital space has become the great equalizer. Individuals within the Digital Discipleship Ecosystem are well positioned to have influential voices in a crowded space!  We have seen this time and again as videos go viral, as people share their lives and as they evolve into becoming online “influencers.”

Individuals are uniquely positioned to:
  • Share their faith with their online friends.
  • Fit within the Digital Discipleship Ecosystem as content creators, distributors or engagers.
  • Have opportunities to view and engage with content online.
  • Build relationships and share friendships through online groups and forums to grow in discipleship and make disciples.
  • Use their talents, whether creative or technical, for ministry.

The Digital Discipleship Ecosystem

The Digital Discipleship Ecosystem Picture
Throughout the article, the term Digital Discipleship Ecosystem has been referenced several times. One of the most exciting parts of Digital Discipleship is the way it works as a system.

As you saw in the section above, it can work at the corporate level, the church level, as ministries or even as individuals but it’s when the system works as a unit that it’s truly powerful.
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The Digital Discipleship Ecosystem is made of content creators, distributors, engagers and curators. To explain the system in context, we’ll reference the parts in conjunction with their levels.

Content Creators

Content Creators are our creatives. They are masterful storytellers, talented artists and skilled graphic designers. They take biblical concepts and stories and provide interpretations and depictions that capture our attention and take us on a journey. And in addition to artistic talents being celebrated in this area of the Digital Discipleship ecosystem, we must also recognize those with technical abilities, such as those who code, create systems and design platforms. Their diligence makes our interaction with information smoother and easier.

Here are some examples of content creators at various levels within our church.
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Corporate Church
  1. Publishing Houses
  2. Magazines
  3. TV Shows
  4. Radio Programming
  5. Websites
Church
  1. Livestreams
  2. Bulletins
  3. Social Media Platforms
Ministry
  1. Television Programming
Individual
  1. Blogs
  2. Youtube Channels
  3. Social Media Platforms

Content Distributors

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule?

It says you should spend 20% of your time creating content and the other 80% of your time promoting that content to make sure it gets seen.

We haven’t done a study lately, but we don’t think that rule has traditionally been applied in church communications and promotions.

Within the Digital Discipleship ecosystem, content has a better chance of getting seen if it’s circulated within the ecosystem.

Content distribution is another way of saying content promotion. In some ways it can be seen as a form of digital door-knocking. And there are many ways to do it.

Corporate Church
  1. Social Media sites
  2. TV Channels
  3. Websites
  4. Paid advertising
Church
  1. Social Media
  2. Paid advertising
Ministry
  1. Television Programming
Individual
  1. Individual social media accounts

Content Engagers

This stage of the Digital Discipleship Ecosystem is all about the conversations we have online. It’s the keystone in the Digital Discipleship process. What are you saying when you engage in conversations, comment on photos and chat in groups?

Corporate Church
  1. As the official voice of the church, communication that comes from this level is expected to speak truth to power and share the church’s official positions.
  2. There is the opportunity to have a digital pastor at this level who will engage in conversation with people on social media platforms such as in forums.
Church
  1. The local church has the opportunity to speak into the local community and answer questions.
Ministry
  1. Ministries have the opportunity to have conversations around the content they put out and to direct people to the next step in the process after they engage with them.
Individual
  1. Individuals have the biggest opportunity for the most authentic interactions after content has been distributed. They can share how it has affected them.

Content Curators

Those who have a platform and they gather content to then share it.
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As a church, we struggle a bit more within this area of the Digital Discipleship ecosystem. And because we exist in a crowded, noisy space, this area requires more savviness than we’ve often exhibited in the past.

Click here to read the full, original article. Re-posted with permission from digitaldisciples.info. 

To learn more about Digital Discipleship and Evangelism, check out our helpful guide. 

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How Does Digital Discipleship Work?

5/15/2018

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Rachel Lemons Aitken

Communications Executive of the Greater Sydney Conference and Founder of the Digital Discipleship.

In an article entitled Discipleship: Cutting through the Buzz, published in Adventist Record, Dr Leigh Rice, leader of discipleship ministries for the South Pacific Division shared a clear and succinct message about what it means to be a disciple.  He said:

A disciple is a person who in every way is becoming more like Jesus Christ (Ephesians 4:15). So discipleship is the process of making better and more disciples.

In the narrow sense we could say that mentoring is making better disciples and evangelism is making more disciples. But Jesus’ model of making disciples was very relational and this is perhaps the defining focus of discipleship.
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Disciples who make disciples, who make disciples—a disciple-making movement. Or as the parable in Mark 4 says, multiplying “30, 60 and even 100 times.”

TWO DIGITAL PIONEERS

Recently, I put a call out for two people who would like to test the idea of being digital disciples. Prayers were sent out and two hands went up. 

Several weeks ago, I met them individually over the phone.  At that time, we discussed their hearts for God and how they’re currently involved in the digital space. One of the individuals really enjoys blogging and the other one has Snapchat as his platform of choice.

This week, I had a meeting with them to start our discussion as a group about becoming pioneers in our digital discipleship movement.
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At that meeting, we decided me needed a bit more structure as we venture out into the digital space.
So we started with the Multiply the Harvest model of discipleship that is outlined in Mark 4 and was shared in the Discipleship: Cutting through the Buzz article.   
Discipleship: Cutting Through the Buzz Picture
Our discussion focused on how we can translate this model into the digital space. We understood that there would be some overlap between what was already outlined and what we would identify.  We know from our own lives that some relationships span both the physical and digital space.  As we’re working to create a discipleship movement in the digital space, including aspects of our digital lives in the model is very important to what we’re doing.
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Here’s what we came up with:

ONLINE PERSONA

  • In our online persona, we need to be approachable as well as approaching
  • Be empathetic: share others’ happiness and sorrow as we are encouraged to do in Romans 12:15

PREPARE THE SOIL

  • Reach out to your online community, especially on special occasions like birthdays, accomplishments, etc.  Let them know you’re fully invested in their lives.  Live out Romans 12:15
  • When you see someone online express sadness about a personal life challenge or excitement about something great that has happened, empathize with them.  Like the post, comment on it or send them a personal message to let them know you’re with them along the way.  Be consistent in your relationship building with them
  • Slowly introduce spiritual content onto your social media account, especially if it’s not something you typically do.  You want to continue to be your authentic self, who is evidently in relationship with Jesus.  If you previously posted cat pictures, don’t stop doing that now that you’ve decided to  be a disciple in the digital space.  If you love sharing pictures of your family, vacations or food, keep being who you are.
  • Share practical content, especially if it’s content that will “prepare the soil” and help you have conversations with people down the road.  Some examples are:
    • Relationship articles
    • Lifestyle content
      • The Table TV show is a good example of material that can be shared to “prepare the soil”
    • Healthy living
      • Videos showing healthy and delicious food being prepared
      • Recipes
      • Workout tips
      • How you’re making health changes in your life
      • Mental and emotional health tips 
  • Create opportunities to pray online
    • Potential ideas for this can include:
      • FB groups for prayer
      • Host a FB Live once per week that takes prayer requests and prays for them online
      • Message someone to say you’re praying for them and follow it up with an online prayer.

SOW THE SEEDS

  • Find opportunities to share you story of faith online.  You can do this in a variety of ways:
    • Video
    • Blog
    • Snapchat stories
    • Instagram
    • Facebook Page
  • Share spiritual content on your social media platform.  This can be done by:
    • Sharing Jesus’ message of salvation and reading the Gospel of Mark together
      • If this is done in the online space, try utilising an online tool, like YouVersion
      • If this is done in person, even better, use whatever tools you have at your disposal
    • Reviewing Digital Discipleship’s future directory of online ministries
    • Reviewing the future repository of online content that digital disciples can choose from to share online

CULTIVATE THE PLANTS

  • Continue conversations with people you’ve started talking to online
    • Visit and eat with people in the physical space if possible
  • Use online tools like YouVersion (online Bible app) to create Bible studies and go through the Bible with them.  Teach them how to learn from Jesus for themselves
  • Invite the person along to a small group
    • The small group may meet in person, which is ideal
    • The small group may meet online either for prayer meeting (see Waitara Churches an example) or for Bible study
  • Be prepared to connect the person with someone in their local area (if they’re not located near you)

HARVEST THE CROPS

  • Keep teaching them to pray and learn the Bible stories for themselves
    • When it’s useful, utilise online tools to help them through the process
  • Involve them in the five purposes of the church.  This can be done in the physical or digital space.
    • Connect
    • Grow
    • Serve
    • Share
    • Worship
  • Let the Holy Spirit lead people to use their gifts
    • Be sure to consider the areas covered through digital discipleship as areas of giftedness.  As the question, could this person be a content creator, a content distributor or a content engager?  Assess if they have any giftedness in these areas as well as the traditional areas of giftedness
  • Invite them to join the church family through the public declaration of baptism (in person)
  • Connect person with a local church or live stream.
  • Plant a church if necessary

MULTIPLY THE HARVEST

  • Identify leaders
  • Develop leaders who train leaders
  • Take those who are interested and gifted in this area through the digital discipleship process
  • Use testimony to put back into digital space
As you think of what discipleship might look like in the digital space, do you have anything additional to add to the process?  We’d love to hear your thoughts!  Let us know what you think! Send Digital Discipleship a message on their Facebook page. 

Reposted with permission from digitaldisciples.info. 

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Prepping the Soil in the Digital Age: Practical Steps For Embracing Digital Discipleship

5/13/2018

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Rachel Lemons Aitken

Communications Executive of the Greater Sydney Conference and Founder of the Digital Discipleship Ministry of the Greater Sydney Conference.

Prepping the Soil in a Digital Age Picture

WHAT IS DISCIPLESHIP?


In Adventist Record’s recent interview with Dr. Leigh Rice, leader of Discipleship Ministries at the South Pacific Division, a definition of discipleship was shared.
A disciple is a person who in every way is becoming more like Jesus Christ (Ephesians 4:15). So discipleship is the process of making better and more disciples. In the narrow sense we could say that mentoring is making better disciples and evangelism is making more disciples. But Jesus’ model of making disciples was very relational and this is perhaps the defining focus of discipleship. Disciples who make disciples, who make disciples—a disciple-making movement. Or as the parable in Mark 4 says, multiplying “30, 60 and even 100 times.
In Mark 4, Jesus outlines five activities that are involved in making disciples.  The South Pacific Division has given more specific examples of how we can carry out each of the steps in our day-to-day lives, for example when Jesus encourages us to “prepare the soil” we are being encouraged to visit with people to connect. This means listening to their story, visiting them when they’re sick and when they’re in need, like when they’re in prison.

Reviewing this document from the perspective of a digital disciple, we wondered how we could give further examples for how these activities might be applied in the digital space. 

PREPARE THE SOIL: EMBRACING DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP

(Please not that these steps are not a replacement to the original activities outlined but are being suggested as additions to the list.)
  • Reach out to your online community, especially on special occasions like birthdays, accomplishments, etc.  Let them know you’re fully invested in their lives.  Live out Romans 12:15
  • When you see someone online express sadness about a personal life challenge or excitement about something great that has happened, empathize with them.  Like the post, comment on it or send them a personal message to let them know you’re with them along the way.  Be consistent in your relationship building with them
  • Slowly introduce spiritual content onto your social media account, especially if it’s not something you typically do.  You want to continue to be your authentic self, who is evidently in relationship with Jesus.  If you previously posted cat pictures, don’t stop doing that now that you’ve decided to  be a disciple in the digital space.  If you love sharing pictures of your family, vacations or food, keep being who you are.
  • Share practical content, especially if it’s content that will “prepare the soil” and help you have conversations with people down the road.  Some examples are:
    • Relationship articles
    • Lifestyle content
      • The Table TV show is a good example of material that can be shared to “prepare the soil”
    • Healthy living
      • Videos showing healthy and delicious food being prepared
      • Recipes
      • Workout tips
      • How you’re making health changes in your life
      • Mental and emotional health tips 
  • Create opportunities to pray online
    • Potential ideas for this can include:
      • FB groups for prayer
      • Host a FB Live once per week that takes prayer requests and prays for them online
      • Message someone to say you’re praying for them and follow it up with an online prayer.

If you’d like to read about the discipleship process in its entirety as it relates to the digital space, check out this resource from Digital Discipleship in the Seventh-day Adventist Church: “How Does Digital Discipleship Work?“

Reposted with permission from digitaldisciples.info. 
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What Is In Your Hand? Establishing the Digital Discipleship Movement

3/27/2018

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Rachel Lemons Aitken

Communications Executive of the Greater Sydney Conference and Founder of the Digital Discipleship Ministry of the Greater Sydney Conference.

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​DISCOVERING YOUR “WHY”

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the story of Moses’ spiritual awakening. It’s the moment when he discovers his “why” in life.
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His moment of discovery comes after a moment of self doubt.  He doubts that he can do what God is asking him to do. In the middle of his doubt, God asks him, “What is that in your hand?” and he says “A rod.”

​FOLLOW ME, AS I FOLLOW CHRIST

Jesus calls us to be disciples who make disciples. This is discipleship – following Jesus in such a compelling way that others want to follow Jesus as well.  This process of growing in Him and introducing others into a relationship with him is discipleship. It’s like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.”
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So the question is, what’s in your hand? What do you have that God can use to compel others of His love and can compel them to follow Him?

TALENTS AND SPIRITUAL GIFTS

As a church, for many years, we’ve validated the gifts and talents of the musicians, preachers, teachers and the hospitable. And this is biblical, as we see in Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:8-10; 28-30 and Ephesians 4:11. With the evolution of time and technology, the opportunities for areas of proficiency have evolved as well.

​WHAT’S IN YOUR HAND?

Right now, at this very moment, what’s in your hand? It’s the same question God asked Moses all of those years ago. Unless someone printed this blog post off for you and you’re reading a hard copy article, then you likely have a keyboard, phone, iPad or some other electronic device at you fingertips.
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Could it be, if God were speaking to you today, with the proximity and clarity he spoke with Moses on that day, that when you answered, “A phone” or “A keyboard” or “A laptop” or “An iPad” God would then proceed to demonstrate how you could use it for Him? More broadly speaking, if you’re a photographer, videographer, graphic designer, SEO expert, writer, social media mogul or digital marketing specialist in a similar situation, do you believe God would prompt you with whatever is in your hand?  For you, it might be your camera, mouse, pen, phone or excel spreadsheet. The question is, “What is that in your hand?”

​WHAT IS DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP?

This brings us to the long awaited question, “What is digital discipleship?”  After giving it much thought over the last year or so, here is my answer.

In the Greater Sydney Conference, our focus is on creating an environment where our church members can grow in discipleship. The digital discipleship movement is an extension of that focus.  It’s offering another playing field for this to happen. Digital Discipleship is answering the call and the challenge to build a discipleship movement in the digital space.  It’s the same call Jesus made over 2,000 years ago, the only thing that has changed is the setting.

When working at its best, Digital Discipleship involves three levels of people:
Content Creators, Content Distributors and Content Engagers. When all three are present (and sometimes, one person may play the role of all three people) the cycle of digital discipleship flows well.

​CONTENT CREATORS

It’s easy to identify content creators. As a church, we’re very adept at creating content. Our church is full of prolific writers, musicians and preachers. We can boast of having radio and TV stations dotted around the globe. Content creators that are often unsung heroes, however, are our photographers, videographers, graphic designers, bloggers, vloggers, authors, and singers.
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If content is king, as they say in the world of digital, then we are on top of the world. However, though it was a clever line in The Field of Dreams, it’s not always true that “if you build it, they will come”.  This is why Content Distributors are key to the flow of Digital Discipleship.

​CONTENT DISTRIBUTORS

Content Distributors can range from denominational social media accounts, like the social media accounts of Conferences, Unions and Divisions, ABCs, Adventist publishers and local churches. Some of our most valuable content distributors, however are our local church social media accounts, as well as those of local church members. Many others have the opportunity to distribute content as well, from their e-mail accounts, blogs, through podcasts and video channels. As platforms continue to grow, the diversity of the opportunities to distribute content will grow as well.
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Consider content distribution as digital seed planting, similar to the way Paul explained it in 1 Corinthians 3:6, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.” Content Distributors are key to getting the messages that we create out there!

​CONTENT ENGAGERS

Have you ever posted something on your Facebook account, whether spiritual, political or a seemingly benign topic only to be met with intense passion, discussion, disdain and even a sense of cynicism and hatred?  How have you responded to such posts?

Sometimes, it seems the internet brings out the worst in people. The distance created by computer screens provides a bit of digital courage to people who would otherwise refrain from stating their opinion or refuting yours in a vile and nasty way.  This fear – the fear of rejection or even the fear of confrontation – keeps many people at bay, making them refrain from sharing much of anything outside of vacation photos, cat memes and the occasional joke.

But 1 Peter 3:15 encourages us “But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” The guiding principle for engaging around content on the internet, as a Digital Disciple comes from Romans 12:14-16, “Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.”
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Content engagers, are a very important link in the digital discipleship chain. Once the content about Jesus has been created and distributed, it is the content engagers who will have meaningful, potentially life-changing conversations with people. It may not be the first, the second or the third conversation that changes someone’s life, but being willing to engage provides the possibility for growth to happen.

​BEYOND DIGITAL

Perhaps with time, we won’t need think in terms of “digital” discipleship.  Perhaps it will naturally flow into all of the other work we do to disciple and provide discipleship opportunities as a church.

Most of you who have taken the time to read this article – especially down to this point of the article – are digital immigrants – someone who was born or grew up during the time before technology was so widespread.  With the emergence of digital natives, who’ve never known an environment where technology was not prevalent, the incorporation of digital discipleship may become more natural and easily integrated into discipleship planning.
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In the meantime, establishing the Digital Discipleship Movement is a great start.  Are you a digital disciple? What are your thoughts on digital discipleship?  We’d love to hear your thoughts on being part of a digital discipleship movement.

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Reposted with permission from digitaldisciples.info. 
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How You Can Create Digital Disciples in Your Church Community

1/23/2018

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Rachel Lemons Aitken

Communications Executive of the Greater Sydney Conference and Founder of the Digital Discipleship Ministry of the Greater Sydney Conference.

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Modified by Jamie Schneider Domm, Digital Strategist for the North American Division

Creating Digital Disciples in Your Church
As a local church member, pastor, elder or youth leader, you may be wondering how relevant Digital Discipleship is to your church.  The Digital Discipleship ministry exists to create, inspire, encourage and resource disciples of Jesus Christ to share His love through their creativity and innovation in the digital space.  What does this look like in action?  After reading this article, you will be equipped with actionable ideas for integrating Digital Discipleship principles into the fabric of your church.

A church’s strength – its unique quality – is in its community and its ability to be a place of life-changing teaching, learning and launching.

In the Bible, we see the church doing every day, ordinary things together – eating, sharing problems and burdens, sharing dreams and discouragements and sharing financial obligations.  Community was natural – almost inevitable.

When the biblical model of church is so reliant on in-person interaction, what does Digital Discipleship have to offer?  In many ways, this question lies at the heart of the discussion of the relevance and efficacy of Digital Discipleship at the local church level.

In the minds of some, community must happen exclusively in person while in the minds of others, community happens online.  However, Digital Discipleship offers a “both, and” approach instead of an “either, or” approach.

The local church can now add digital tools to its available resources to reach, disciple and provide community.  The local church has the opportunity to recognize the gifts of its members in the areas of creativity and technology and to acknowledge the abilities of these people to move the work of the church forward.  The local church is positioned to amplify its message while becoming more targeted in its approach through available technology.

Local church leaders and members can implement any of these principles as they work to integrate Digital Discipleship into their church’s ministry plans keeping in mind that this ministry encourages churches to equip its members to make disciples and grow in discipleship by meeting a need in the digital space, addressing a digital need or utilizing digital tools.

HOW TO IMPLEMENT DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP AT YOUR CHURCH:

  1. THINK LIKE A SEEKER  

    The first thing a church needs when implementing Digital Discipleship principles is empathy.  Yes, empathy!  We need to begin to think like a person looking for a church community when setting up our websites and social media accounts. 

    Arm yourself with empathy for a seeker or a person looking to find God.  What questions would you have about church? What would encourage you to attend a church or to reach out to a Christian to understand Jesus better? What might you see that would give you a boost of encouragement to push through a hard time?

    Show your online visitors what life might look like if they were a part of your community.  Give them a glimpse of the events, the spiritual life and the friends they might make.  Show them how they can have their questions answered.

    While it’s very important to put thoughtful consideration into your website and social media design, remember social media isn’t a science and effective website design can require iterations.  Knowing that you can test, change and update can relieve a bit of the pressure of always getting it right the first time.

    Understand why you are posting in the first place. Periodically assess whether you’re getting the results you need from your social media and web presence. Find ways to adjust or adapt to the needs of your church and to the people you are trying to reach through your site and social media accounts.

  2. VALUE THE TALENTS OF THE CREATIVES AND TECH SAVVY AMONG YOU

    There isn’t always space in the church for creatives and the tech savvy to place their talents on the altar in service to God.  Weaving Digital Discipleship principles into the fabric of your church’s Discipleship Plan can provide space for more people to feel engaged around the idea that the church values their time and talents.

    Providing a space of recognition for the gifts of creatives and the tech savvy is an essential part of Digital Discipleship. Regard their contribution to the mission of the church as highly as you would the musicians, Sabbath School teachers or youth leaders.

  3. IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE YOU’RE TRYING TO REACH

    Never before have marketing messages been able to be so targeted as they are today.  In the digital space, ads can be aimed at specific groups based on demographics and behaviors.  For this reason, it’s best to decide who you are trying to reach.  Review some of the ministries your church is running.  See if there’s an opportunity to bolster their efforts by implementing a digital strategy.

  4. FIND A WAY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR COMMUNITY IN THE DIGITAL SPACE, AROUND A DIGITAL NEED OR BY UTILIZING A DIGITAL TOOL

    There is discussion, even within the Digital Discipleship ministry, about how “Digital Discipleship” fits within “Discipleship”.  Many models have been created and put forward for church members and leaders to study and understand.  One in particular is based on Jesus’ story of the Sower and the Seeds from Mark 4.  These models are helpful in explaining the process of discipleship so some may wonder if Digital Discipleship is similarly proposing a new model of discipleship that exists exclusively in the digital space.

    Digital Discipleship’s aim is to provide a gentle nudge (or a strong nudge if necessary) to the church to meet the needs of people within our community in the digital space, around a digital need or by utilizing a digital tool.
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  5. PROVIDING DISCIPLESHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ONLINE SPACE

    Local churches have a variety of opportunities to help their members grow in discipleship in the digital space.  Ironically, while leading with spiritual events and worship services is not the natural progression of discipleship — even in the traditional discipleship models — it’s often the starting point of our interactions with people in the digital space.  We often begin our online interactions by “sowing the seeds” through live-streams of church services and advertising evangelistic programs, which isn’t necessarily the first natural step to introduce someone to Jesus.

    Even though it’s not the recommended starting point, it is crucial.  There are many people who are in need of Jesus who spend significant amounts of time in the digital space.  As expressed at the Digital Discipleship Conference by Pr. Sam Neves, Associate Director of Communications from the General Conference, online relationships are not virtual relationships they are real relationships.  There are real people behind the computer screens.

    There are many people who are unwilling or unable to enter a church building.  Many members of our local churches have stopped attending church but may be willing to anonymously watch a service online.  Many parents, previously involved in the church, are distracted on Sabbath morning by attending to the needs of their children.  Others have hearts that are ready to listen to spiritual messages but are intimidated by entering a church building.  By fostering relationships online, some who were unwilling to attend may return, others who were disengaged may be encouraged to return to the church and some may find spiritual renewal.

    Keeping this in mind, there are opportunities to share spiritual content online outside of the traditional church hour.  These might include online small groups and online prayer sessions.  There are also opportunities for webinars and online evangelistic series.
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    Not all online relationships must remain in the digital space.  There may be opportunity for building relationships with people online that encourage and attract them to attend your church.  There are many things that need to happen for a person to trust you with their Saturday morning in a church building.  Digital Discipleship can play a role in familiarizing people with your church and encouraging them to attend.

  6. PROVIDING MEMBERS WITH PERSONAL MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES​

    There is an additional opportunity for local churches within Digital Discipleship.  Recognizing that not all members are gifted in the areas of creativity or technology, there is room for the non-techie, semi-creative to be involved in Digital Discipleship.

    Pastors are often laden with the responsibility of maintaining the functioning of their local churches while also evangelizing their communities.  This skewed view reduces the responsibility for church members to grow in discipleship.

    Creators, Distributors and Engagers

    Employing Digital Discipleship strategies in the digital space, as a church, can provide church members with the tools and know-how to share and disciple within their online communities.

    There is a model in Digital Discipleship of content creators, content distributors and content engagers.  Collectively, they create content to share a message, distribute the content to their networks and position themselves to have conversations around that content.
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    Local churches are well positioned to adopt this model among a group of its members who wish to use their social media platforms to intentionally share Jesus online.

If your interest has been piqued and you’re curious about introducing Digital Discipleship principles in your local church, consider the following steps:

  1. Exercise empathy for the people who will be engaging with your social media accounts and your website. What questions might they have that you can answer?  Have you given them a glimpse at what life might be like if they were to join your community?
  2. Value the creatives and those gifted with the ability to understand technology. Regard their contribution to the mission of the church as highly as you would the musicians, Sabbath School teachers or youth leaders.  This will affirm the area of giftedness God has given them and will engage them in the church’s mission.
  3. Identify the specific needs of the people you’re trying to reach. Today’s digital landscape is highly segmented, and it’s much easier to target the people you’re trying to reach in the geographic locations where you want to connect with them.  Having a clear picture of who you’re talking to can be very effective.
  4. Find a way to meet the needs of people within your community in the digital space, around a digital need or by utilizing a digital tool. Digital Discipleship does not limit you to the digital space.  It provides you with another avenue to reach people, with additional tools and with additional needs to meet.  How can these increased opportunities be useful in allowing you to reach the people you’re trying to reach?
  5. Provide discipleship opportunities in the online space. After you’ve met people’s needs, be prepared to feed them spiritually.  This may mean a series of articles or videos or a livestream of your church service or Bible study.  Whatever it may be, be prepared to talk about the life-changing effect of Jesus in the lives of your online visitors.  Have a plan for how you can best progress to that point in the conversation.
  6. Provide personal ministry opportunities. Digital Discipleship provides a natural personal ministry opportunity for the creatives and tech savvy.  However, it also creates a space for church members who are less digitally inclined.  If they operate in the digital space, they may be able to participate in the model of content creators, engagers and distributors.

Please let us know if you are implementing digital discipleship models in your church or ministry. We would love for you to share you experience and what you've learned.  Comment below! 

Click here to read the full, original article. Re-posted with permission from digitaldisciples.info. 

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The Power of Asking R U OK?

10/30/2017

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Rachel Lemons Aitken

Communications Executive of the Greater Sydney Conference and Founder of the  Digital Discipleship  Ministry of the Greater Sydney Conference

The power of asking R U OK?

In the wake of his father’s suicide, Gavin Larkin grappled with the realities of death. He wondered, “If this could happen to my father, am I susceptible to it as well?”

He was not okay
He looked back fondly at memories with his father and mentally replayed conversations. As a successful businessman, Barry Larkin had given no indication that he had been contemplating suicide. But the reality remained. Barry Larkin was not okay.

After documenting the impact of this experience in a documentary in collaboration with Janina Nearn, the pair realized the documentary served to tell the story but wasn’t sufficient to build a movement.

Building a movement
“In 2009, Gavin Larkin chose to champion just one question to honor his father and to try and protect other families form the pain he endured.”

“Are you ok?”

This single question, in all of its simplicity, is powerful because of the intentionality behind it. It challenges a nation to ask a question that now shapes the way Australia views suicide prevention with the hope that it will “genuinely change behavior Australia-wide”

R U OK
Karen Mudge, author of a Bible Society article published in 2012 said that R U OK Day “fits naturally with our calling as Christians to care for each other and those around us.”

Taking it one step further, R U OK day — its principles and intentionality — are especially pertinent to the Digital Discipleship movement: engaging with people online can be seen as a spiritual discipline.

Engaging online as a spiritual discipline
As Christians, we are familiar with the spiritual disciplines – if not as a collective than at least individually.
  • Fasting
  • Prayer
  • Bible Study
  • Evangelism
  • Service
  • etc.
In our digital age, engaging with people online is a spiritual discipline. It is the modern story of the Good Samaritan. It is Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well. It is Philip’s obedience to the spirit in meeting the Ethiopian eunuch.  It is Saul’s life-changing arranged meeting with Ananias.

In order for these online encounters to happen, we must reach out.  We must meet people where they are in the digital space.

Much of life is lived online.

While some see the online space as a public photo album, displaying pictures of kittens, vacations, clothes and food, others find the online experience cathartic. They find strength in speaking online that they wouldn’t have in person. They type away their sorrows, are often overly honest and send out digital distress signals.

Sometimes, even their silence online can be a loud cry for help. The question is, is anybody listening?

The R U OK Process
R U OK Day prompts us to ask this simple but important question and gives us tools for how to ask it.

As Digital Disciples, we are encouraged to be content creators, distributors and engagers. And as important as the creators and distributors are to the Digital Discipleship process, the engagers give humanity to a world of pixels, bits, bytes and code.

The R U OK? Process
Step 1 – Ask
First make sure you’re in a good headspace to ask.  Start with something simple like “How are you going”.  If something has caused you to be concerned, mention it specifically.  If you receive a bit of pushback, just follow-up with a question to make sure things are really okay.

Step 2 – Listen
Listen genuinely to their answers.  Don’t rush them and hold back any judgment you may feel.  Follow-up with questions like, how did that make you feel?

Step 3 – Encourage Action
Ask them how you can support them in their situation.  Prompt them to tell you how they’ve dealt with a similar situation in the past. Share how you’ve dealt with similar situations.  (Sometimes the situation may be too big for you to deal with alone.  In this case, bring along an expert to help.  Check out this link for resources for expert help).

Step 4 – Check in
Putting a reminder in your diary will prompt you to follow-up.  Keep in touch and continue to show genuine care and concern. (For the full guidelines to How to Check-in, visit the R U OK resource page.)


A Lifestyle
For much of the nation, today’s focus on the health and well-being of their co-worker, cousin or online friend will soon fade.  It will be lost when the celebrities stop appearing frequently in yellow, when the pamphlets have been distributed and the commercials have run their cycle.

For Digital Disciples, engaging in genuine conversations online with our friends, family and strangers is a lifestyle modeled after Jesus’ life. It gives us permission and intentionality in our questions and it gives us purpose behind why we’re asking them.

So as you reach out today to ask R U OK, ask yourself how you can exercise the spiritual discipline of engaging online with your community with intentionality and purpose in order to grow God’s kingdom not just today, but every day.

Who will you reach out to to ask R U OK, and how can you build relationship with them and meet the needs they may have?

Re-posted with permission from digitaldisciples.info.

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