I think multi-site and internet campuses are soon going to be passe. If you haven't seen it yet, check out this video!
HT: Patrol
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Church on Your Wii!
November 10, 2009
Click Here to Become a Christian
The 11/2/09 edition of The New York Times had a piece on churches that hold services on the internet. It's fairly brief, and you can read it here.
There are no new revelations in the article (except the aside that one church has a tab on which you can click to receive Christ as your savior), but it does a good job laying out the thinking behind these internet churches.
We've talked about this phenomenon before, but I wonder how it connects to the conversation about multi-site churches. Could it be that these internet churches are just churches that have the courage to take the multi-site approach to its logical conclusion?
The multi-site approach sacrifices connection and community in the interest of making good, redemptive content available to as many people as possible. That's a deliberate trade-off and there's legitimate debate about whether or not it's worth it.
Doesn't the internet campus model take the same thinking and tease it out to the end? If you're willing to sacrifice physical proximity for the sake of reaching more people, isn't the internet the perfect option? Can't you consider each laptop a new campus?
April 27, 2009
The Cool Kids and Biblical Theology
You might be interested in watching the video that opened Catalyst West. Not what you'd expect from the cool kids on the playground... Biblical Theology!
Check out You Are Here.
(HT: History in the Making)
February 03, 2009
Lloyd-Jones is Getting Very Angry...
If you haven't seen it, check out the tithe rap.
My favorite part is the person in the comments who took two posts to carefully consider the video's theological message.
(HT: Blake Johnson)
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