Sam Rainer predicts incarnate preaching returning to popularity within a decade.
'Tis the season for presents, and parties, and pageants, and...predictions. At the end of every year we often speculate about what the future will bring. What trends will gain momentum, and which have 'jumped the shark.'
Sam Rainer, president of Rainer Research, recently issued a list of 10 (unexpected) church trends that will surface by 2020. The last one caught my attention. Rainer believes the excitement around video-venue preaching will pass away like so many Milli-Vanilli cassette tapes. He writes:
The trend towards more transformational leadership will quell the popularity of video-venues in which a single teaching pastor is projected to multiple sites. The Internet and podcast boom brought with it a cultural wave of electronic teaching. While this trend has been positive — more sound teaching is readily available (for free) than ever before. Eventually, however, the wired generation will desire a more local, personal touch than the man-on-the-screen. By 2020, more campuses at multi-site churches will feature a campus pastor who teaches, and more people will seek out this type of local connection. To read more, click here.
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