In case you haven’t heard, the church has officially left the building!
Over the past decade, new and intuitive technologies have enabled organizations, businesses, and churches to do far more and reach more people than ever before.
The entire worldwide web has been opened up to us in a brand new way as we have explored interacting on social media, meeting with others through video calls, and consuming content like never before.
The internet is no longer your granny’s chat rooms and low-resolution GIFS. There is an entire world of possibilities when it comes to online communication.
One of the greatest recent revolutions for churches specifically has been the integration of live streaming and recording church services. Online church has allowed us to reach people that we truly were unable to reach before.
Here are a few examples of people you can now reach that you possibly couldn’t before:
Online church busts open the walls of our brick and mortar locations and allows the Gospel to travel the Internet highway with unlimited destinations. It truly is a marvel that we can take the Gospel to the very ends of the earth with a click of a button!
When it comes to online church, we have all had hesitations in some way or another.
This isn’t how it’s supposed to be.
Church online isn’t real church.
This can’t replace the real thing.
We as humans resist change. When our set ways, habits, and routines are interrupted, we experience extreme discomfort and resistance. We don’t like change because it requires us to give up something we hold tightly to.
What we must remember is that God never changes. His message is constant, stands the test of time, and applies to every creed, tribe, and tongue. While the message of Jesus never changes, often our methods must.
There was a time when playing a flute or singing in church was ridiculed and deemed “worldly” and equivalent to paganism in some people’s minds. There are still people splitting hairs over whether or not we should use electric instruments in churches!
We must not conform to the culture, but we must become culture creators who radically transform the world around us. We can take the things that are common and set them apart as holy in Jesus’ name.
We cannot just drown in the waves of change, but instead, create our own current in which we sanctify popular culture to Christ.
While many may push back on the integration of digital church, we must be willing to embrace new methods of worshipping our unchanging God.
When we begin utilizing digital church, we can then actually become (or grow) a multi-site church.
Because the restrictions of physical location do not apply to digital church experiences, you can have an unlimited amount of “campuses” in your church.
You can deem your online church experience not as just an insignificant add on ministry but as an actual campus branch of your church.
Many churches have already transitioned to this model of hybrid church and have begun to marry physical experiences with digital experiences.
We have seen throughout the year 2020 specifically the impact of implementing an entirely online experience. Not only does it help reach people you never could before, but it also helps your community to stay connected to one another when they cannot physically gather.
This new campus is composed of people all over who, although they have different backgrounds, are beautifully united under the banner of Jesus. This is truly an incredible season to be a part of the Body of Christ!
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