CNLP 795 | A 100% Digital Church: What Mark Lutz Learned That Physical Churches Are Missing
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Mark Lutz pastored a regular church for a few years. Then, as a gamer, he opened up Lux Church, a 100% ditigal church created for gamers. He explains the model, why it's reaching people no one else is reaching, how online relationships are as real as IRL relationships, and what other churches are missing and getting wrong when it comes to their digital ministry.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | This is going to be controversial. |
| 0:04.6 | The internet has not ruined younger generations. |
| 0:07.7 | They know how to navigate it. |
| 0:09.5 | Right now, the internet and social media is ruining past generations. |
| 0:14.9 | People who don't know how to identify if something is AI. |
| 0:18.3 | People who don't know how to determine if something is real or fake, |
| 0:21.3 | there is a reason why scammers do not target kids. |
| 0:25.0 | People who are scamming predominantly target people who are elderly. |
| 0:32.9 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership podcast. I'm so glad you joined us, and I hope our |
| 0:36.6 | time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Welcome to all of our new listeners. And we got a topic |
| 0:41.9 | that we haven't covered in a long, long time. In fact, I don't think we covered it ever. What about |
| 0:47.1 | a 100% digital church? No physical expression. Is that really a church? Is that actual ministry? Are we just pretending that that's |
| 0:56.7 | church? Well, my guest today is Mark Lutz. And with Mark, he started Lux Church in 2019. We're going to go |
| 1:04.1 | through that story and they minister to gamers. So a couple of things. I went into this like brand new, |
| 1:09.6 | don't know anything about this. Man, it was fascinating. Do you know that almost half the global population games, and that's heavily weighted toward the West, that means the majority of people in your church probably are gamers. And some of them don't go to church at all. Mark is reaching them. So what does that actually look like? We're going to look at that, |
| 1:29.0 | and I think like me, you're going to learn some new things. You may not agree with 100% of what he |
| 1:34.0 | talks about, but I'll tell you they're doing real ministry. And he's got some lessons for you |
| 1:39.0 | on how to minister online better. Most of what we're doing is not online ministry. So Mark is the lead pastor and founder |
| 1:47.0 | at Lux Digital Church, a fully digital church expression that exists on platforms like Twitch and Discord. |
| 1:53.1 | Yes, we will go into definitions and make sure everybody can skate along. Mark's desire is to help |
| 1:57.8 | the church connect with the next generations, especially those who will never step into a traditional church building. |
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