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Every industry or major company that thought their prevailing model was immune from digital
disruption was devastatingly wrong. If you are a pastor or church leader, it’s natural to ask: What will
happen to the future of church? Are we the new Blockbuster? Is everything about to change forever?
What will community look like to new generations?

So, let’s embrace digital tech, but let’s not capitulate to digital. Seems like a contradiction, right? Except
it’s not; it is a tension that will save us from the dangers of both extremes.

If we resist digital tech, we will continue to lose our two youngest generations (and the next generation
of church leadership). If we capitulate, we will give into consumer-driven, preference-based Christianity
and lose our effectiveness.

But if we first map out our biblical convictions and clearly define biblical community, and then innovate
radically with digital tools to support that, we will get the benefits of both.

If you are a pastor or church leader, it’s natural to ask: What will
happen to the future of church? Are we the new Blockbuster? Is
everything about to change forever? What will community look like

to new generations?

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