Original Research
Missionale kerkwees en die elektroniese sosiale media
Submitted: 16 October 2013 | Published: 07 November 2014
About the author(s)
Martin J. Lazenby, Department of Theology, University of Pretoria, South AfricaCornelius J.P. Niemandt, Department of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Abstract
Being a missional church and the social media. The tremendous increase in using the social media as interactive communication medium worldwide creates the opportunity for the Christian church to make a missional difference in favour of God’s kingdom on earth. It also brings great challenges with it. This means that the way communication via the mass social media is done, becomes of the utmost importance. The content as well as the manner in which the communication is conducted must be considered. This article aims at providing certain basic biblical-ethical principles for communicating in the mass social media that will serve the missional calling of the church. The point of departure is the Word of God. The basic focus of the argument is that the moral-ethical principles given to the believer in the Bible are of the utmost importance to give practical form to the kingdom of God on earth by means of horisontal communication via the social media. For the Christian believer the focus never falls on humanistic social communication as such, but always to glorify the image of God and thereby expand God’s kingdom in this world.
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Crossref Citations
1. To be or not to be? A missional and practical theological perspective on being Church without walls amidst coronavirus disease 2019: A challenge or an opportunity?
Jacques W. Beukes
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies vol: 76 issue: 1 year: 2020
doi: 10.4102/hts.v76i1.6115