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By Aaron Spiegel
"Today we're awash in automatic Bible video games, pastoral care software program, and church administration platforms with individuals' own details and giving records," become aware of authors Spiegel, Armstrong, and invoice, yet "too frequently we blindly settle for and use know-how with no asking the large questions. Questions like, is it applicable to our project and ministry?" forty Days and forty Bytes might help your congregation discover know-how so that you can make a decision, from a ministry and tradition point of view, what you must do. The target: godly service—not technological glitz. The authors are uniquely certified that will help you take into consideration the position of know-how on your congregation. All 3 are employees contributors with the Indianapolis heart for Congregations, which introduced the cutting edge desktops and Ministry supplies Initiative in 1998 to assist congregations handle the demanding situations they face whilst utilizing machine expertise of their ministries. during this e-book, they percentage what they've got realized of their paintings with 102...
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Working together, the team identified several areas where computer technology could be useful to their church. Then they created a needs list for each area of church work. Next they converted those lists into detailed plans. Finally, the team began implementing them. It was not always easy. Sometimes team members had different points of view. Money was not immediately available to accommodate everyone’s wish list. Bad weather and less-than-perfect service technicians also complicated their process.
What we learned forms the basis for much of what follows. The Indianapolis Center for Congregations continues to work with congregations in the area of technology. This work has grown out of our experience with CMGI and our ongoing effort to provide up-to-date information on the state of technology and its possible implications for churches, synagogues, and mosques. The calls keep coming. ERROR MESSAGES One important thing we tell congregations is that there is a great deal of misinformation about congregational technology.
Stories like these are one reason that in January 1998 the Indianapolis Center for Congregations embarked on its ambitious project of teaching congregations how to use technology to enhance congregational ministry. Our main goal was to provide a broad background of what was available for congregations technologically. We did not have a particular implied or explicit theology—we wanted congregations to think practically and theologically about computer use. That included all aspects of using technology in congregations—desktop publishing, member records, accounting, word processing, communications, the Internet, presentations, education, and so on.