High-Tech Churches Worry Traditional Worshippers

mbdil »

Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:53 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 2

I'm curious about the "small but growing number of churches" picking up an internet campus. Currently I'm only aware of two (Lifechurch and Seacoast) that are going this direction. There are other internet churches that exist, but generally they don't have the support and resources of an established brick-and-mortar church, and then often appear as little more than a pet evangelism project. I wish that more churches would go this direction. As pgcfriend pointed out and I've noticed from experience, there are a great many people out there who would not attend a real life church, but will check out one on the internet and often find Jesus.

Also, I could not disagree more with the suggestion that the satellite-feed-based campuses are "impersonal". Rather than spending 20 hours in his study preparing a sermon, the pastor of these extended campus churches has the time to meet with more leaders, visit more sick people, and be human with his congregation, including joining them for much of the worship service. That sounds like a good thing.