Making disciples of Jesus has always been the mission of the church. But as people’s behaviors and expectations change, so must our strategies adapt if we are going to be effective and relevant in our mission of making disciples.
So, what has changed? A seismic shift in the 21st century has seen a gradual move away from what we call a synchronous event (time and place) towards an asynchronous expectation (what I want, when I want it). How did this come about? Advancement in technology (personal computers, smartphones, etc.) introduced us to this movement and then the Covid-19 pandemic exponentially accelerated the pace of it all.
Approaching the discipleship process solely in a synchronous model (in-person church activity a few times a month), while people are being “discipled” by their choice of content on YouTube, Tik Tok, audiobooks or Netflix for hours on end now seems ill-advised.
In our battle to redirect those countless hours of media consumption toward discipleship, we have been working hard to launch a new Christian discipleship platform called Vineyard.Online. On the surface, Vineyard.Online may seem like those media platforms listed above. After all, this is a place where we’ll upload most of our Vineyard content such as: worship videos, sermons of our past, our daily devotionals, our new discipleship pathway videos called Vineyard Core and many more.
But our hope is that you will experience Vineyard.Online as not just another media site. Rather on this new platform, that a journey toward whole-life discipleship begins.
We want to leverage the technology that has evolved in the world around us and direct it toward our discipleship. Will you join us?
