Use Church Technology to Spark Prayer

Daily prayer is a cornerstone activity in a strong walk with the Lord. At CedarCreek Church, they used their app to spark 15,000 prayers per week. 

If you have a church app, you can use it for more than announcements. Make it a prayer hub for your church. Set up ways to request prayer, pray for others, and make everyone aware of the prayer activity that is taking place throughout the week.

Use Church Technology to Practice Gratitude

1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, “give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” Paul’s challenge is something we all need to remember in daily life, but it isn’t a natural state of mind for most of us. 

We’ve seen churches use their apps to serve up consistent encouragements to think thankful thoughts. They use their apps for things like:

• Sharing positive experiences

• Suggesting guided journaling

• Leading spiritually centered breathing exercises

You can preach a sermon on gratitude on Sunday, but an app helps you remind your people to develop that grateful perspective every day.

Use Church Technology to Read Scripture

Daily time in God’s Word changes your week. And yet, despite the best intentions, many people struggle to regularly read the Bible. One in six U.S. adults reads the Bible most days. Just one in six. Half of all adults read the Bible less than twice a year. 

An app can put reading reminders in people’s pockets every day. These are also great opportunities to tailor recommendations to align with that week’s teaching, journal along with the Scriptures, or set up a custom reading plan. When we worked with Faith Promise Church, they even used their app to digitize their annual devotion book, leading to thousands of scripture-focused engagements per day.

Use Church Technology to Interact With Others

Faith is stronger in community. You’re already seeing this in conversations after service on Sunday. We’ve seen churches successfully use their technology to carry that togetherness into the week, too.

Use your church app to help people connect with friends, find people they know, and share inspiring, faith-filled content with one another.

Use Church Technology to Mark Milestones

It isn’t easy helping people build habits around prayer, Scripture, and community. Most studies suggest it takes around two months to form a habit. Sometimes it can take longer. Church apps give creative ways to schedule consistency into the process. 

One thing we’ve seen work well is marking milestones. Celebrating consistent steps of faith helps your people cultivate habits. Add reminders to keep streaks going and provide a history of app use to encourage people to stay on track and improve over time. This creates positive associations that lead to genuine, long-term daily spiritual habits.

How Can You Get Started?

The potential’s there. But how can you think bigger with your church technology? Here’s a tip to get started: Don’t rush too fast. Church technology initiatives should be strategic and steady shifts. Otherwise, you end up with flash-in-the-pan events. 

That’s why our team took the time to sit down with clients like Seacoast Church and Journey Church before we made any changes. We’ve found it’s best to take the time to understand where you’re going and how they can maintain heart and vision during periods of change.

We can help you create consistent digital daily discipleship in your church through the Apollos app. Our church technology solutions include Daily Habits, a feature-rich app-driven digital engagement option that has helped millions of users engage online as part of their spiritual development and daily walk with Christ. 

If your heart is to see discipleship move beyond Sunday, we’d love to connect. Let’s talk about how you can tap into the unfolding digital church revolution and use tools like Daily Habits to help your church develop spiritual habits on a daily basis.