Comments on: The Immediate Future of Church Online http://www.godvertiser.com/2009/10/25/the-future-of-church-online/ Church Marketing Ideas, Experiments, Lessons and Pitfalls For Right Now (yes, now!) and the Future. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kkcoolj http://www.godvertiser.com/2009/10/25/the-future-of-church-online/comment-page-1/#comment-814 kkcoolj Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:45:48 +0000 http://godvertiser.com/?p=709#comment-814 @Dave Adamson - Great comments. I love the last part -- and think it *IS* important for the online church to define its own terms so that people will find richness going to church online. Technology is currently seen as a hinderance by many critics. But if church online can harness technology / Internet to solve problems that exist in offline relationships, (perhaps things like expanding the Dunbar number for social communities) then it will be seen as an advantage, not the opposite. Love the creative force to push ahead in your ministry. God bless. @Dave Adamson – Great comments. I love the last part — and think it *IS* important for the online church to define its own terms so that people will find richness going to church online. Technology is currently seen as a hinderance by many critics. But if church online can harness technology / Internet to solve problems that exist in offline relationships, (perhaps things like expanding the Dunbar number for social communities) then it will be seen as an advantage, not the opposite.

Love the creative force to push ahead in your ministry. God bless.

]]> By: Dave Adamson http://www.godvertiser.com/2009/10/25/the-future-of-church-online/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Dave Adamson Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:47:06 +0000 http://godvertiser.com/?p=709#comment-812 Church Online is already authentic Christian community. God is using technology to lead people to faith and disciple them. The question certainly isn't whether or not Church Online is "church"! Jesus said whenever two or more are gathered, he is there. I gather each week with 400 people at Liquid Church Online. We take communion together, share family stories, pray for each other, confess sins, maintain accountability and even do church discipline. The question is where Church Online goes when we stop mimicking offline church and develop our own thumbprint. That's when we'll TRANSFORM space online, instead of just OCCUPY it! Church Online is already authentic Christian community. God is using technology to lead people to faith and disciple them. The question certainly isn't whether or not Church Online is "church"! Jesus said whenever two or more are gathered, he is there. I gather each week with 400 people at Liquid Church Online. We take communion together, share family stories, pray for each other, confess sins, maintain accountability and even do church discipline.
The question is where Church Online goes when we stop mimicking offline church and develop our own thumbprint. That's when we'll TRANSFORM space online, instead of just OCCUPY it!

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