Outreach Resource of the Year

The Gospel Coalition Book Award

What does it mean to be an analog church in a digital age?

In recent decades the digital world has taken over our society atnearly every level, and the church has increasingly followed suit—often in ways we're not fully aware of. But as even the culture at large begins to reckon with the limits of a digital world, it's time for the church to take stock. Are online churches, video venues, and brighter lights truly the future? What about the digital age's effect on discipleship, community, and the Bible?

As a pastor in Silicon Valley, Jay Kim has experienced the digital church in all its splendor. In Analog Church, he grapples with the ramifications of a digital church, from our worship and experience of Christian community to the way we engage Scripture and sacrament. Could it be that in our efforts to stay relevant in our digital age, we've begunto give away the very thing that our age most desperately needs: transcendence? Could it be that the best way to reach new generations is in fact found in a more timeless path? Could it be that at its heart, the church has really been analog all along?



Jay Y. Kim serves as lead pastor at WestGate, a multicongregational church in Silicon Valley. He is the host of IVP's Digital Examen podcast and the author of several books, including Analog Christian, Analog Church, andListen Listen Speak. Jay serves on the board of Practicing the Way and has spent two decades in local church ministry, all in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving as a teaching pastor and church planter over the years. Jay lives in Silicon Valley with his wife Jenny and their two children.







Scot McKnight (PhD, University of Nottingham) is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. He is the author of many books, including Reading Romans Backwards, Pastor Paul, The King Jesus Gospel, and commentarieson James, Galatians, and Colossians. He is also a general editor of the IVP Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, second edition.



Foreword by Scot McKnight

Introduction. EDM and Grandma's Church: The Relevance of Transcendence

1. Slow and Steady: Why Go Analog?

Part 1: Worship

2. Cameras, Copycats, and Caricatures: Worship in the Digital Age

3. To Engage and to Witness: Analog Worship

Part 2: Community

4. Rebuilding Babel: Community in the Digital Age

5. A Tax Collector and a Zealot Walk into a Crossfit: Analog Community

Part 3: Scripture

6. Jackpot! Scripture in the DigitalAge

7. Howtoreadabook: Analog Scripture

8. The Meal at the Center of History: Communion

Conclusion. Blinded by the Light: Where Do We Go from Here?



Acknowledgments

Discussion Questions

Notes