What is the significance of social media in the current situation?
An essential part of being the church is encounter and meeting one another. And social media can serve as a platform for this. When quarantine and contact restrictions lead to loneliness, creative approaches are needed to support community experiences.
In the EKM, a weekly evening devotion – #trotzdemverbunden – by our leading bishop Friedrich Kramer who presents a song and a prayer, has been running on Facebook since March. It is nothing complex, but there has been a lot of positive feedback.
Of course, there are also challenges: people posting unnecessary criticism and misunderstandings because of misinterpreted comments or posts. In such cases, it helps to politely ask what the other person wanted to express, excuse small mistakes, and send positive messages yourself.