Churches should want attendees online and on-site equally?
COVID-19 has hurt in-person church attendance and overall giving, most congregations report, but leaders appearing at a conference focusing on the future of the local Church say the way forward is to welcome engagement wherever they find Church, be it online or physically.
Dusty Rubeck, president of CDF Capital, which helps churches get the financial and other resources they need to serve their communities, welcomed those attending the two-day virtual FutureFWD2020 conference that ran Wednesday and Thursday by encouraging them to think ahead and strategize.
“A leader with a dream is a good thing, but a leader that has a dream and a plan, that leader will do great things,” said the former head of Dallas Christian College....
There’s no such thing as an online “church” service. The very word church means “a called-out assembly,” and you can’t have an assembly that doesn’t assemble.
Jim Lincoln wrote: There were a couple of replies to the article which were very satisfactory in answering this fellow's proposition. Physical attendance should be the norm and virtual attendance only when the person can't come physically to a church group.
Well Jim, if you really believed that, you wouldn’t support governors who arbitrarily decide who can and can’t come physically to a church group, something that is well above their pay grade.
There were a couple of replies to the article which were very satisfactory in answering this fellow's proposition. Physical attendance should be the norm and virtual attendance only when the person can't come physically to a church group.
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