Slides from my presentation at the Online Church Conference, June 9-10, 2021. I share five disruptions and three tips in 25 minutes.

1. DISRUPTED
THE BEAUTY & POSSIBILITY
OF ONLINE CHURCH
The Online Church Conference
June 9-10, 2021

2. ABOUT
BRUCE

3. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.

4. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.

5. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.
● Proudly Presbyterian...USA.

6. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.
● Proudly Presbyterian...USA.
● Yes, #Tworship happened.

7. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.
● Proudly Presbyterian...USA.
● Yes, #Tworship happened.
● See faith through a lens of
intersectionality and justice.

8. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.
● Proudly Presbyterian...USA.
● Yes, #Tworship happened.
● See faith through a lens of
intersectionality and justice.
● Pastor.

9. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.
● Proudly Presbyterian...USA.
● Yes, #Tworship happened.
● See faith through a lens of
intersectionality and justice.
● Pastor at @FPCPaloAlto.

10. ABOUT
BRUCE
● Generation X. Whatever.
● My own social experiment.
● Proudly Presbyterian...USA.
● Yes, #Tworship happened.
● See faith through a lens of
intersectionality and justice.
● Pastor at @FPCPaloAlto.

11. ALL THE LINKS
Today’s Slides:
www.slideshare.net/breyeschow
Resources, Groups, Gatherings:
http://bit.ly/BRCHybridLinks
on the Socials:
@breyeschow on all the things
eMail:
bruce@reyes-chow.com

12. “Once online worship is no longer
forced upon us as the only option us
congregation, will we have the
willingness, energy, and capacity to
birth, curate, nurture, and sustain a
long-term digital space?”
Put more succinctly, “What now?”

13. Exodus 36:4-7

14. Finally, all the skilled workers
building the sanctuary left their work
that they were doing one by one to
come and say to Moses, “The people
are contributing way too much
material for doing the work that God
has commanded us to do.”
Exodus 36:4-7

15. So Moses issued a command that
was proclaimed throughout the
camp: “Every person should stop
making gift offerings for the
sanctuary project.”
Exodus 36:4-7

16. So the people stopped bringing
anything more because what they
had already brought was more than
enough to do all the work.
Exodus 36:4-7

17. Exodus 36:1-7
Sanctuary: moveable and holy
Workers: skilled and present.
Offerings: more than enough.
Hybrid/Online Church

18. DISRUPTED
The Beauty & Possibility of Online Church
The Online Church Conference
June 9-10, 2021 on the Zooms.

19. LANGUAGE
DISRUPTED

20. LANGUAGE
DISRUPTED
Online church forces us to
think and speak about
“place” differently — which
then allows us to view the
rest of how we may use
language differently.
FREEING OUR WORDS.

21. RELATIONSHIPS
DISRUPTED

22. RELATIONSHIPS
DISRUPTED
Online church forces us to
focus on the building and
nurturing of relationships
and not the platforms and
technologies through which
we build them.
TEXTURED CONNECTION.

23. IMAGINATION
DISRUPTED

24. I do not believe people have a lack of
imagination, only that too many of us
in power have done everything
possible to discourage them from
trusting and acting on it.
HOW WILL WE CO-IMAGINE.

25. IMAGINATION
DISRUPTED
Online church forces us try
new things which can,
should, or might, free us up
to embrace the gift of “what
may be” especially in times
of such uncertainty.
IDEAS COME TO LIFE.

26. PRIORITIES
DISRUPTED

27. Hold in tension two things,
“Don't make major decisions during a
pandemic” and “The pandemic has
magnified what may or may not be
important in life/ministry, which may
require major decisions to be made.
What has pandemic stirred up?

28. PRIORITIES
DISRUPTED
Online church forces us
examine what elements of
community are truly
important and meaningful
to the life of the church.
IMPORTANCE
MAGNIFIED.

29. MOVEMENT
DISRUPTED

30. MOVEMENT
DISRUPTED
Online church forces us to
acknowledge contexts of
privilege be participants,
allies and accomplices in
movements for justice.
WE CAN NO LONGER
PRETEND NOT TO KNOW.
@presbypeace

31. TOP THREE TIPS
ONLINE CHURCH

32. TOP 3 TIPS
ONLINE CHURCH

33. TOP 3 TIPS
ONLINE CHURCH
Simplify: Just because you
can, doesn’t mean you should

34. TOP 3 TIPS
ONLINE CHURCH
Simplify: Just because you
can, doesn’t mean you should
Tech Deacons: A valued
and honored ministry.

35. TOP 3 TIPS
ONLINE CHURCH
Simplify: Just because you
can, doesn’t mean you should
Tech Deacons: A valued
and honored ministry.
Stretch First AKA Practice:
Tend your online church
leadership muscle.

36. TOP 3 TIPS
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Today’s Slides:
www.slideshare.net/breyeschow
Resources, Groups, Gatherings:
http://bit.ly/BRCHybridLinks
on the Socials:
@breyeschow on all the things
eMail:
bruce@reyes-chow.com

37. QUESTION &
RESPONSE