“Rather than saying, is digital effective in terms of discipling our people or does it have to be analog, we’re instead asking the question…which of these pieces during that journey can we mediate online effectively, and which of these pieces do we need to invite people to show up?”
“[People continuing to attend church only online] is an area of concern for us at our church, and it’s an area of concern I think for many church leaders.”
“It’s undeniable that this time has rehabituated and reformed us as people in a variety of ways, not just the church.”
“Just at our church…our anecdotal, semi-data-driven best guess is that over the past year, year-and-a-half, we’ve lost probably 25% of our church.”
“Church is not work. It’s not a for-profit experience where you go and put in your time to get a particular paycheck, but very subtly, I think that people have sort of entrenched themselves in that sort of thinking about church.”
“If everything is online and you believe the church to be a peddler of Christian content, then church becomes nothing more than Netflix.”
“What the pandemic did is not usher in something that was brand new, but rather speed up something that was already happening.”
“In some ways, I’m bracing myself for lower attendance…but I don’t see that necessarily as a loss. I see that as an opportunity for rebirth, for renewal, and hopefully, prayerfully, that renewal leads to revival.”
“I think that community can be developed online, and by ‘developed,’ I think a better word in my opinion would be ‘initiated’ and ‘mediated.’ I do think that that’s possible. But I do not believe that at the core of human experience and the way that human beings are hardwired…that digital connection will ever satisfy fully.”
“It’s not enough for me to stop at the online digital mediation. I have to ask the question, if I really am pursuing these men and women as family, as inconvenient and as difficult as it is sometimes, it feels like it’s not enough for me to say, ‘Well, I chatted with you online.’ There has to be a sort of longing to be with one another.”
“As we grow in love for one another, we will naturally long for proximity.”
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