The popular breakthrough of the Internet forces the Church, and many other institutions, to think in new ways about its communication. The complex nature of the Internet (being a medium, an information archive, and a social space) demands equally complex thinking from the Church. This article will present a few fundamental ways in which the Internet can be used by a church with a missional agenda, but it will by no means cover every issue associated with the Internet and churches.

Since its popular introduction in the mid 1990s the Internet has changed how we communicate.Getting a message from one part of the world to another has become so easy, cheap, and quick that geography is no longer the same barrier for communication that it was in the past. At the same time the Internet has expanded our understanding of communication. Using the Internet is not just about passing on a message.