Elizabeth Drescher and Keith Anderson
Morehouse Publishing, 2012, 208 pp., $20
According to Elizabeth Drescher (author of the popular Tweet if You <3 Jesus) and Keith Anderson, the church is in the midst of a capital “R” reformation centered around the explosion of the digital world. The key question Click 2 Save answers is: How do we effectively live and act as the body of Christ in a world jammed with information but void of actual, physical interactions?
Click 2 Save is accessible enough to serve a person who thinks email is high-tech, but it’s also deep enough to engage a reader who is ministering actively via Web 2.0 applications. Drescher and Anderson give comprehensive treatments to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, YouTube and FourSquare; and, thanks to a glossary in the back for those unfamiliar with technospeak, these mini-chapters will help the uninitiated get in on the digital ministry action.
Perhaps the most interesting portion of the book is its explanation of various forms of digital ministry: hospitality, care, discipleship, community and witness. We’ve read countless books about how each of these are played out in brick-and-mortar settings, but this is the first time I’ve seen such a thoughtful take on doing these things digitally. This book is not only about adding a digital layer to our ministries, but it also proposes the digital world can be a ministry space all its own.
