The church needs to be more digital. For Small Churches especially, the digital world can level the playing field, giving us a broader reach and wider ministry.
We need more churches taking advantage of online services, podcasts, livestreaming, social media, blogging, you name it.
But church will never be digital. Screen-to-screen is no substitute for face-to-face. Digital reality cannot replace actual reality.
Yes, we should have online church. The speed, convenience and world-wide reach of the internet is a wonderful tool. The digital world is a great place to network about faith. I know. I do a lot of it. But networking isn’t church.
Church requires that flesh-and-blood people actually hang out in the same physical space together. It’s so important that I truly believe hanging out is holy. You may know it as fellowship. Keep reading
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