{"id":9950,"date":"2010-12-06T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2010\/12\/06\/facebooksermonprep\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:10:00","slug":"facebooksermonprep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/facebooksermonprep\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sermon Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t<strong>F<\/strong>or years friends pestered me to sign up for Facebook, the social networking website that keeps you up to date with people you know well or not so well. Since I wasn&#39;t that interested in the movie preferences of my ninth grade lab partner or in the gossip from my mother&#39;s third cousin, I figured, <em>Why spend precious time online that I desperately need for face-to-face relationships?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Then, on a whim, I signed up for Facebook. I have been surprised by how useful it has been as a ministry tool, especially for preaching.<\/p>\n\n<p>Over the past four months as I&#39;ve mentioned being on Facebook, more than 35 percent of our congregation have become &quot;friends.&quot; I&#39;ve also added as &quot;friends&quot; a couple of dozen folks who have dropped out of church altogether, plus a number of unchurched people (from my kids&#39; soccer teams and school, mostly). I now have a new level of interaction with these people, which I&#39;m finding very helpful. Here&#39;s how:<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Understanding the hearts of my people.<\/strong> For a recent sermon series about fasting, I must have read a hundred comments about what our people were learning, struggling with, and giving up. Each week I could spend ten minutes on Facebook and read a couple dozen comments about people&#39;s experiences, which helped me calibrate where the church was on our journey. Comments like this helped me prepare the coming week&#39;s sermon:<\/p>\n\n<p>&quot;I feel a sense of urgency to learn something. Problem is that I&#39;m so concentrated on not breaking the fast (I&#39;ve slipped a few times) that I might be missing the point &hellip;&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Understanding the hearts of the unchurched.<\/strong> Facebook keeps me connected with people outside the church with whom I&#39;d otherwise have little contact. I keep their struggles in mind as I prepare messages. Just this week, I read this status update from a &quot;FB friend&quot; who dropped out of church a decade ago:<\/p>\n\n<p>&quot;If you pray, do me a favor and pray for me. I&#39;m having a really rough time right now. Even though I don&#39;t show it I&#39;m dying inside. I don&#39;t know who to talk to, and I&#39;m justIm dying inside. I don t know who to talk to, and Im just overwhelmed with hurt and everything else. I just feel like I need to let go but I don&#39;t know how.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Bringing people to church.<\/strong> Besides praying for this more c good in interac I&#39;m the bening tim form ogy, and woman, I also contacted her and invited her to an evangelistic service we were having that evening&mdash;and she came! Well, I should say, she stood outside while another leader and I talked with her. She didn&#39;t actually step inside. But it was a huge step for her.<\/p>\n\n<p>Besides her, six other unchurched FB friends whom I&#39;ve personally invited have shown up to Sunday services.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Generating sermon material.<\/strong> A story we used at our Easter services was one that popped up on FB from a lady from church. It just showed up in the daily flow of postings. I grabbed it and used it. This week I tried something more intentional. The sermon needed an illustration about extending forgiveness. So on Monday, in my status field, I posted a request for stories. I received seven forgiveness stories in response! Yesterday one of our college students videotaped one of those people sharing her story, and we&#39;re showing it on Sunday&mdash;tears and all.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Extending the sermon&#39;s impact.<\/strong> Recently one of our leaders posted &quot;Great sermon!&quot; on my Facebook page, so I wrote back asking why she felt led to say that. That led to a significant online conversation about the spiritual growth that was sparked by how the preached word intersected her life. I&#39;ve also posted quotes\/testimonies from my sermon afterwards and had many people connect with that material. Once I even published an entire manuscript of one of our more controversial messages. In response I had some really good interaction over the Scriptures and their meaning, an interaction that many people followed as it unfolded online.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#39;m still new to Facebook, so I&#39;m still learning. Besides the benefits, there are plenty of dangers&mdash;including wasting time and inappropriate content. Just like any other form of relationship building, Facebook takes time, energy, and discretion. But it&#39;s a useful tool for preaching.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-article-bio\">&mdash;Bill White pastors Emmanuel Reformed Church in Paramount, California. 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