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Consider it a great joy…whenever you experience various trials… James 1:2

9/3/2020

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​If ever we needed to keep our focus on the Lord, the Gospel, and the truths of God’s Word over the media, social media, and competing voices, it is now.
 
James 1:2-4 gives us a God’s perspective on how to act and react to the trials He allows us to experience: “Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing." (CSB)


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Social Media

8/10/2016

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Social Media is here to stay.  It can be helpful to keep in touch and to share meaningful events, quotes, Scripture, and memories with family, friends, neighbors, and church family.  But it can also be misused.
 
The choice is ours.


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Church Websites Are Needed… and Need Improving. Does Yours?

7/2/2014

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I believe the true front door of the church is now a church’s website.  Most people – and especially adults under 50 – will not visit a church until they first check it out on the web.  People do not check out the Yellow Pages anymore.  They Google.


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Why and How to Use Social Media in Ministry

4/16/2014

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Why should pastors/ministers be on and use social media?  There are a lot of reasons, but Carey Nieuwhof gives some really good ones: To have conversations, to ask questions, to discover what other people are doing, to celebrate a moment in someone else’s life, to point people to great resources, to let people see who you really are, to inspire people, and to remind people why what they do matters.


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    I’m Ray Gentry, the President/CEO of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders (SBCAL). I’ve served Southern Baptist churches & associations in various roles for over 35 years. I have served as an associational leader for five associations, starting in 1993. The most recent one being the Southside Baptist Network, McDonough, GA.

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