Silicon Valley titan Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of VMWare and former CTO of Intel, and Scott Beck, who scaled Blockbuster Video, Boston Market, Einstein Brothers Bagels and Ancestry.com, and is the Founder of Gloo, talk about how the future church can use technology to reach people and connect people.
Pat and Scott also talk with Carey about why church leaders resist technology, privacy concerns and why the future is more relationally-connected than we imagine.
Welcome to Episode 372 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes below or search for the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free.
Plus, in this episode’s What I’m Thinking About segment, Carey talks about weird lies that pastors and church leaders believe about church online.
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INSIGHTS FROM PAT AND SCOTT
1. Your church should use technology, not rejecting it, to reach more people
If you look back at the times of Martin Luther, it’s obvious that it would have been foolish for him to say, “We shouldn’t use the printing press to print more bibles. We should keep doing things the way they’ve always been done.” The printing press was a groundbreaking advance of technology that allowed more Christians to have access to the Bible.
The problem is that many Christians and churches are doing the exact thing with the internet. A lot of pastors are looking at online technology and saying, “It’s only temporary.” Or, “We need to keep getting people into our buildings on Sunday morning.” Sadly, those leaders are going to miss out on the biggest opportunity to spread the Gospel in our lifetime.
2. Privacy needs to be a priority as you move forward with technology
While technology is great, there are some dangers that come with any new technology. One of the biggest concerns with using the internet is data privacy. If your church has an email list or an online database of any kind, you know this is a challenge. Where do you store your members’ data? What happens if it gets hacked? How should you use it?
As you move online, you should put more energy into making sure your church’s data is secure. Platforms like Gloo and GlooConnect are backed with the highest data security in the world and have the resources to continually watch for potential breaches. Most churches don’t have the bandwidth or resources to do this, so it’s critical to outsource this.
3. Digital churches need to scale 1-to-1 interactions along with the 1-to-many
Pastors are focused on three things right now when it comes to online church: Video broadcasting, video broadcasting and video broadcasting. That’s great, but if you want to begin engaging more people online, you need to do more than just broadcast. You need to scale online 1-on-1 interactions as you scale up your broadcast interactions online.
As you put more and more of your effort online, ask yourself, “How am I helping my church have more 1-on-1 or 1-on-a few interactions online?” Are you providing Zoom rooms? Running ad campaigns around certain felt needs? Whatever you do, your ability to scale your reach will match your ability to scale healthy and helpful 1-on-1 interactions.
Quotes from Episode 372
90% of humanity will be persistently connected to the internet by 2030. 10 billion people are part of your potential congregation. @PGelsinger Click To Tweet There are going to be two types of churches going forward. There's going to be the phigital church, that is digital and physical, or the church that's all digital. @PGelsinger Click To Tweet This is the opportunity for churches to really scale, to really reach the world. - Scott Beck Click To Tweet If you're a physical-only church, you're dead in the future. I just don't think that you're going to be able to survive in this increasing digitally-connected world. @PGelsinger Click To Tweet Christ didn't command us to go build churches, he said, 'Go make disciples.' @PGelsinger Click To Tweet There's nothing more important today than to be able to make sure that the smallest recovery center, the smallest church has the world-class capabilities to be able to leverage technologies. - Scott Beck Click To Tweet Church is limited today by the capital of the edifices that we're building. @PGelsinger Click To Tweet We have to bring technology into the right design in order for it to be used for personal growth and for God's purposes. - Scott Beck Click To Tweet The average American spends 152 minutes a day on social media alone. @cnieuwhof Click To Tweet People are screened out on things that aren't interesting to them. They're screened out on bad content, but are they screened out? Nope. @cnieuwhof Click To TweetRead or Download the Transcript for Episode 372
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