Professors at Dallas Theological Seminary weighed in on whether attending church solely online and not in person is a legitimate option for Christians.
Their answer: it is not.
“[T]his experience of church mediated entirely through technology is a pseudo experience of what the church is called to be,” said Barry Jones, professor of Pastoral Ministries at DTS.
Jones, who is also teaching pastor at Irving Bible Church, gave his response at a DTS student event where students had raised the question of why people should go to church.
His large church posts sermons on its website and also allows visitors to watch there worship services live online. But Jones explained that those are “primarily for those people who, for whatever compelling reason, can’t be there.”
“We refuse to call that an online campus and to make that sort of, in any way, communicate that that could be your normal church experience,” he stressed.
“[W]e try to make sure that we’re continuing to tell them, ‘This shouldn’t be your normative experience of church or Sunday worship. You should be here.'”
He admitted though that because they make the services and messages…
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