In a blog post entitled Supercharging Sermons With A Blog, Paul Steinbrueck of OurChurch.com talks about three purposes of a church website:
1) to help people looking for a church home;
2) to assist people already attending the church to know what ministries and activities are available for them; and,
3) to help people grow spiritually by providing additional resources that complement the services and ministries.
Regarding those three purposes of a church website, it seems to me (just my opinion) that there are better ways to accomplish the second and third purposes than a publicly available church website (I would advocate approaches which convey information to already-existing members and attendees through face-to-face community — small groups, for example). My fear is that in trying to be all things to all people, we will end up serving no one.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
