Posted on 03/02/2023 7:23:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Bad idea, we were created to commune with each other, not isolate ourselves.
They’ve been saying this since worship services were aired on radio, then later when they started airing TV (along with FDR’s fireside chats Biden watched as a boy).
In 1929.
“Heavenly Father, we welcome all tuning in to our online Church service. And please click that ‘Like and Subscribe’ button”.
My church streams our services on FB and YouTube. We do this as outreach to those who don’t attend church or know Christ as well as for our “Shut-In” ministry: homebound seniors and infirm who cannot go out into public. We stream our services and then go to them for checks, communion, etc.
We don’t advocate virtual attendance, but we see it as a domain where the Gospel can be spread to those who just happen to scroll across our feed.
Just more and better ways to bring more people to Christ.
It would be irresponsible for Church leaders not to use all the tools in their power to spread the word.
The most effective will always be Christian believers talking to friends and relatives face to face.
To participate in things like baptisms or communion you had to be there of course but you could watch the service at any time.
In the UMC, illegally. The pastor has to be directly involved and it has to stay in the sanctuary IIRC.
Authentic Catholics know that, at a minimum, one has got to show up, in person, with one’s backside in the pew, and knees on the kneeler, every Lord’s day and every Holy Day of Obligation as designated by one’s local ordinary. To do otherwise is to take a nosedive directly into a lifestyle defined by continual grave sin.
Very funny! Sad, but funny. 🤔 Actually just sad.
"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching."
“Most church leaders...” are heretics and idiots.
My services are on youtube. I’m not tethered to one minister or church
The day of the mega churches is coming to an end. We are going to go back to the house churches, small gatherings, where the word will be the focus and not church programs. Community. This will have a greater effect.
RE: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
I wonder if Zoom meetings can be considered “assembling together” ...
“Authentic Catholics”
In the US we have almost all “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose what they like from the menu.
The “authentic Catholics” could probably fit in a phone booth—and if they obey the current woke zombie anti-Pope then they probably don’t count anyway.
;-)
That is how I turned my daughter to Christianity. No church was going to do it if she refused to go. It took me a few yrs but she is a strong believer now
Historically, that is how the Church grew from a tiny sect to dominate the Roman Empire, and much of the world.
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