Comments on: The Internet is The Church’s New Drug of Choice http://www.scottfillmer.com/2009/01/28/is-the-internet-the-churchs-drug-of-choice-part-1/ Life in Faith & Photos Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:05:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Our Life of Multitasking and Skimming in Search of Productivity | Scott Fillmer http://www.scottfillmer.com/2009/01/28/is-the-internet-the-churchs-drug-of-choice-part-1/#comment-18636 Our Life of Multitasking and Skimming in Search of Productivity | Scott Fillmer Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:30:04 +0000 http://www.scottfillmer.com/?p=1563#comment-18636 [...] without regards to productivity, the less we can. Over two years ago I wrote a blog post called The Internet is The Church’s New Drug of Choice and it’s quite fascinating to see how much father down the road of distraction, multitasking, [...] [...] without regards to productivity, the less we can. Over two years ago I wrote a blog post called The Internet is The Church’s New Drug of Choice and it’s quite fascinating to see how much father down the road of distraction, multitasking, [...]

]]> By: Nick Charalambous http://www.scottfillmer.com/2009/01/28/is-the-internet-the-churchs-drug-of-choice-part-1/#comment-1241 Nick Charalambous Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:37:05 +0000 http://www.scottfillmer.com/?p=1563#comment-1241 Those are great questions, Scott. No matter how much we have faith or how solid our theological grounds are for web church, it is one giant experiment no matter how you look at it. All I can do is pray for God's guidance and do what I believe he has called me to do. I like to remember that the Church is His, and he'll protect it just the same way he protected the word of God so that it could be passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. As far as the questions go: 1. You are spot on. What we think church ought to be won't necessarily make it so. 2. I think online community is a valid form of "meeting together." But I think we need to lead in this area by encouraging online worshipers to develop deep online friendships that invest in one another. (Again, fake friendship is not just an online phenomenon.) 3.See answer to No. 2 4.see answer to No. 1 5.This is the biggie: Right now, the key method is still going to be something like small groups in my opinion, but I see a lot of potential in the use of lifestreaming apps to disciple groups of believers. Great post. Look forward to the rest of the discussion. <abbr><em>Nick Charalambouss last blog post..<a href="http://ipiphanist.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/reflections-on-an-amazing-beta-test-of-the-newspring-web-campus/" rel="nofollow">Reflections on an amazing beta test of the NewSpring Web Campus</a></abbr></em> Those are great questions, Scott. No matter how much we have faith or how solid our theological grounds are for web church, it is one giant experiment no matter how you look at it. All I can do is pray for God’s guidance and do what I believe he has called me to do. I like to remember that the Church is His, and he’ll protect it just the same way he protected the word of God so that it could be passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

As far as the questions go:
1. You are spot on. What we think church ought to be won’t necessarily make it so.
2. I think online community is a valid form of “meeting together.” But I think we need to lead in this area by encouraging online worshipers to develop deep online friendships that invest in one another. (Again, fake friendship is not just an online phenomenon.)
3.See answer to No. 2
4.see answer to No. 1
5.This is the biggie: Right now, the key method is still going to be something like small groups in my opinion, but I see a lot of potential in the use of lifestreaming apps to disciple groups of believers.

Great post. Look forward to the rest of the discussion.

Nick Charalambouss last blog post..Reflections on an amazing beta test of the NewSpring Web Campus

]]> By: John (Human3rror) http://www.scottfillmer.com/2009/01/28/is-the-internet-the-churchs-drug-of-choice-part-1/#comment-1240 John (Human3rror) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:29:33 +0000 http://www.scottfillmer.com/?p=1563#comment-1240 thoughts are genius. keep it up. :) <abbr><em>John (Human3rror)s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Human3rror/~3/c25LNo2Ec34/" rel="nofollow">Everything That I Don’t Have Looks Awesome</a></abbr></em> thoughts are genius. keep it up. :)

John (Human3rror)s last blog post..Everything That I Don’t Have Looks Awesome

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