On today's episode, Pastor Adam invites Kyle Davis on the episode to discuss a topic that deeply relates to our post-pandemic world. Is online church the future of the Church?
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SHOW NOTES AND RESOURCES
Where do we do it
- Bible reading
- Less likely to bring a Bible to church or pick up one throughout the week
- Sermons/worship
- Not regular church attendance but have a stable of pastors to choose from
- Community
- Working it through social media
Why do we do it
- Bible reading
- Sermons/worship
- Easy access and quality speakers
- Community
Why doesn’t it work
- Reasons it doesn't work
- Split attention
- Learning styles
- Most are visual learners, some are auditory, and few are kinetic (everybody is a combination of these things)
- Brings us far but not deep
- Highways vs back roads
Why we shouldn’t
- Bible reading
- Sermons/worship
- Dr. Russ Moore says Your podcast is not your pastor because pastoring is more than about teaching
- Their ability to be with you in life is directly proportional to your trustworthiness in their teaching. You’re more likely to say “yes i can agree with that” when you physically know the person
- Community
- Community is inherently in person
Thoughts
- General
- More than two and half decades’ worth of tracking research shows that Americans are softening in their practice of Christianity. - Barna
- Places we do it
- Bible reading
- Low retention rate but high influx rate
- Those committed to the spiritual practice of Bible reading have stayed just as committed, while those who never made this a consistent part of their lives are now more likely to never open a Bible. - Barna
- Sermons/worship
- Dr. Russ Moore says Your podcast is not your pastor because pastoring is more than about teaching
- Their ability to be with you in life is directly proportional to your trustworthiness in their teaching. You’re more likely to say “yes i can agree with that” when you physically know the person
- Community
- Social isolation
- Reasons it doesnt work
- Split attention
- Learning styles
- Brings us far but not deep
- Highways vs back roads
Resources
- Study in the Journal of Biblical literature https://www.academia.edu/40330432/Habits_and_Hermeneutics_of_Digital_Bible_Readers_Comparing_Print_and_Screen_Engagement_Comprehension_and_Behavior
- Hermeneutical study on why the church is for in person attendance https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/is-online-church-really-church-the-church-as-gods-temple/
- Research on decline in christianity https://www.barna.com/research/changing-state-of-the-church/
- Learning styles https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340450/
- Quote from Russ Moore https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/your-podcast-is-not-your-pastor/
- Kids getting tested online score lower than on paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775718305119?via%3Dihub
- Kids learned less math while distance learning https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/learning-during-covid-19-initial-findings-on-students-reading-and-math-achievement-and-growth/
- Teachers had to work harder to teach children via online platforms vs in person https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13158-020-00272-6
- Biblical readers need to do more than just read the text to truly engage with it https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dial.12130
- How average users are handling digital and print bibles https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZQrTDgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA101&dq=bible+app&ots=ILMsKUVXrm&sig=gG8iNi968b6C714UgESGC3aAvZQ#v=onepage&q=bible%20app&f=false