Digital
Missionary
Conference
Matthew Niermann
Serving as Director of Global Research for the Lausanne Movement, he connects data and innovation to advance global missions. Passionate about creativity in ministry, he helps shape how the Church engages in digital and physical spaces. A Midwest transplant to California, he secretly loves never having to shovel snow.
SPEAKINg ON:
What's working digitally, globally?
Biggest takeaway
Digital advancement of the Great Commission requires algorithmic contextualization.
Voice I am amplifying
Individuals outside of the standard Christian algorithmic channels.
Lie I’m silencing
Digital efforts to advance the great commission only requires contextualization of the message, not contextualization of tools.
Take action
Greater digital engagement, and refined engagement to advance the Great Commission.
QUOTABLE
Advancing the Great Commission in the 21st century requires 21st century tools.
get to know more:
The Humble Creative: Moral Vice and the Pursuit of Flourishing Creativity
Open any other book on creativity, and you will hear the clichéd rallying cries of current creative culture: Be True to Yourself! Find Your Voice! Express Your Authentic Self!
This book is different.
This book will not tell you to "Be true to yourself," but will implore you to "Humble yourself." This book will not repeat the slogan, "Find your Voice," but will ask you to consider how your moral weaknesses are inhibiting your creativity.
Examining the current creative culture, The Humble Creative argues that creativity can easily become disordered by vices that Christianity has long understood, but most have forgotten; vices such as vainglory, envy, sloth, anger, lust of the eyes, greed, and pride.
