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1/20 unfinished thoughts...#online Church has been dismissed for years: a ‘last resort’, a ‘pale imitation’, ‘only just better than nothing’ are 3 verdicts I've heard. Some say how much they #mourn the loss of meeting in church buildings. It's a heavy loss, a significant sorrow.
2/20 But, as with many who #grieve, in our sorrow we must be careful not to #wound others, as #mainstream #church struggles to inhabit what has been the lived, continuous (sometimes total) experience of #disabled #christians, Christians with #mentalhealth struggles...
3/20 ...Christians who are #carers for those who can't #access #Church as we knew it & Christians who work shifts. In our thrashing about in this new arena, we should be careful not to push out those whose #spiritual #home this has been for a long time...
Here are SIX things I pray the Church has learned during quarantine (1/6):
1. YouTube, Instagram, FaceBook, Zoom and online platforms can be sacred places where people can commune with the Divine, and be in community.
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1. YouTube, Instagram, FaceBook, Zoom and online platforms can be sacred places where people can commune with the Divine, and be in community.
#OnlineChurch
Here are SIX things I pray the Church has learned during quarantine (2/6):
2. Online worship doesn't have to look like a music video or rock concert ... it just needs to be authentic.
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2. Online worship doesn't have to look like a music video or rock concert ... it just needs to be authentic.
#OnlineChurch
Here are SIX things I pray the Church has learned during quarantine (3/6):
3. Digital spaces are the modern-day public square—the place where the Church has always been called to lead and live out the Gospel. That doesn’t end when this is over.
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3. Digital spaces are the modern-day public square—the place where the Church has always been called to lead and live out the Gospel. That doesn’t end when this is over.
#OnlineChurch
There seems to be no better time than the present to be discussing an intriguing argument and observation in philosophy of religion #PORcourse: divine hiddenness. In a traditional sense, divine hiddenness is when God seems absent, distant, far away from us 1/
This is an ancient phenomenon. You already see observations of divine hiddenness in the psalms, such as Psalm 22 (which makes a striking contrast with Psalm 23, just on the lectionary at our church this weekend) biblegateway.com/passage/?searc… 2/
You see it in people of strong faith, such as Mother Theresa, who asks "What do I labor for? ... If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true." What are we to make of this phenomenon? 3/
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Dear Church, with the new CDC guidelines, there is absolutely a way to do church online/by extension in a way that not only glorifies God but allows people to remain in community in a way that is theologically healthy. #Onlinechurch #churchonline #ChurchAtHome @ZonderAcademic 
The earliest Christians didn't always get to meet together; they had their own trials preventing the routine we have today. This is why Ignatius of Antioch notes that the church is where the shepherd is. Polycarp reminded his church that we are aliens who transcend our places.
Likewise, the challenges of Irenaeus' day caused him to describe the church as solely a calling of the Holy Spirit, not building/location. Tertullian and Origen both emphasize that the church happens when the people of God gather to worship, a few here and there is still church.
