Comments on: Facebook for Churches: Pastors on Facebook

By: David Oliver Kueker

David Oliver Kueker — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:07:34 +0000

After resisting it for many years, I’ve become an avid user of Facebook. For me it has three benefits:

1. I can easily keep in touch, comfort and encourage church members and others who share their life situations on their FB pages. What tipped me into FB was the testimony of a pastor on how effective it was to use FB to easily stay in touch with lots of folks in his large suburban congregation.

2. I can start and participate in discussions on my passions, which are disciple making strategies and organizational change. My FB page connects me with all sorts of people. When I find something interesting in what I’m reading, I put up some quotes on my wall, and it appears magically everywhere. Those who find it interesting comment, those who don’t just ignore it.

3. FB provides a connection between all sorts of people who reflect the complexity of my interests. I find it very interesting to be a link between such diverse kinds of people.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:33:57 +0000

Thank you for this article. I believe that Facebook can be used as part of evangelism and ministry. I believe that we can use it to get in contact with our members doing the week. It is a wonderful tool to use if we remember what “thus said the Lord” about anything that we undertake.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:16:56 +0000

I read a very interesting post in the past day or two about Catholics using social media and all kinds of new technology and how it’s working out, some of the problems, etc. Personally, I think anything that helps get the message out, that engages people, that reaches people, is a good thing. A year ago I didn’t use Facebook at all. Now I usually check it once a day. (My kids — they’re on it constantly!) To me this is just another way to make church more relevant
to people’s ordinary, everyday lives. And that’s the point of a great book, “The Gathering,” by Ray Barnett (who, it must be pointed out, is an advertising copywriter — he knows how to put across a message!). It’s easy to read and has many examples and stories, but at its heart it’s a serious call to reformation for the church, to go back to our roots as the simply gathering of Jesus. It examines the foundations of what God actually says about being a local church. You can read it — and then talk about it and what it all means on Facebook! That would engage your parishioners.

By: bondChristian

bondChristian — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:54:48 +0000

Excellent quotes. We often need encouragement more than tactics to get started.

-Marshall Jones Jr.

By: Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade

Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:26:21 +0000

I have found that facebook also serves as a great pulpit and place from which I can invite parishioners, family and friends to think about and re-think about matters of justice and peace.

By: KatieK1944

KatieK1944 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:32:54 +0000

I so enjoy reading what my Pastor put on the site & what the other Pasators have to say also. The messages really give me comfort throughout the day because I carry them on my cell & refer back to them.