Websites Don't Build Chuches

To begin with, I must express appreciation to Kristi Raboin for getting our website going.  She spent a good amount of time getting it set up.  

I believe that a website for a church is a very helpful tool.  It serves the people of the church in many ways, and it allows people outside the church to check us out before they really visit. 

Over the past two weeks I have invested a good amount of time on our website.  I believe that it is a worthy investment and trust that God might use it to advance His kingdom.  Yet I do firmly believe that God does not intend to build His church through a website.  That job God has given to real life people.  

Churches may build websites, make signs, send out mailings, and do other such “marketing”. But the best commercial for a church is its people.  A church website might be snazzy and user friendly, but if the church doesn’t treasure Christ and live out of His life, the website may be false advertising.

I pray that our website is a useful tool to our church and community.  But a far deeper burden in my heart is that all of us at Country Bible Church are being changed into the image of Christ from one degree of glory to another (2 Corinthians 3:18).  Then, if people visit us because of the website, they will see a group of believers that are imperfect, yet are running to a God who is running to us in love, grace, and mercy (Luke 15:11-32), and is forming us into a people who radiate “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6).

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