Welcome. Thank you for joining us for hashtag STR Ask.

This is Amy Hall, and I'm here with Greg Kokel.

And we're going to talk today about various social media

questions. Okay. So the first one comes from Sandy. Our church with solid expository preaching

has started advertising itself on social media. A friend is very concerned about this. What are

your thoughts on this matter?

I'm wondering what the concern is. Maybe you know, initially, I mean, my initial response is what

would be a problem with that? Churches are in the yellow pages when they're, when yellow pages were functioning.

And I guess they still are out there, but, you know, now it's digital. And when you have a digital

presentation, you can do all kinds of things that highlights what your church does, the community,

the worship, the closeness between people,

all of these things seem to be to be good conveyances or representations of the community life of a church that can be appealing to people who want to watch. People don't go to the yellow pages

or anything like that

anymore. They find things online. So if people are looking for things online, then going online

would be a good idea to represent your community church to other people. I don't, I'm just,

no, duh. That's what I'm thinking.

So I'm not sure what could be the liability of using social media to promote your church.

I, well, there's no specific here concern. You mean given by the question?

Given by the person asking the question.

I wonder if the concern has more to do with how they're advertising on social media.

Because it's one thing to have, let's say you have a picture of your church and it says, here's when our service times are,

here's where we're located, whatever it is, and maybe your mission statement or, you know,

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