Preparing Pastors For Digital Church: 3 Reasons Why Seminaries Should Require Courses In Hybrid Ministry

Post pandemic, some churches returned to their traditional ways of doing church; because when people don’t know what to do, they do what they know how to do. Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory says it this way, “when we get to moments of deep disorientation, we often try to reorient around old ways of doing things. We go back to what we know how to do. We keep canoeing even though there is no river.” [1] The river is drying up. The old ways of doing ministry have changed and continue to change rapidly.