New Spring's web campus is online, streaming live at 11:15 AM and 6:15 PM EDT.
What's a "web campus" all about? Think of it as a way to attend New Spring Church live, via your computer and internet connection, no matter where you are in the world. Today more than 600 people in eight different countries attended. Stop for a moment, and think what that means.
You might be shrugging and thinking, "How's watching church on a computer different from watching church on TV?" or "So what? No matter what you call it, an internet church still isn't the same thing as going to a real church."
What's different about the New Spring web campus?
Read what Internet Campus Pastor Nick Charalambous wrote last week at
Ipiphanist, following the web campus launch:
They were at church. It was just online. And they need the church to stop arguing about whether they were really there and just figure out how we can be the church online for them; how we can help each other love God, love others and make disciples.
The web has changed social arrangements forever. We cannot argue about that any longer.
In post-Christian Europe, local churches everywhere are being shut down and turned into luxury condos or bars. Physical, bricks-and-mortar church holds little to no meaning other than prejudice and anachronism for hundreds of millions of people.
We would be sinning against Christ and his sacrifice on the cross to turn our backs on them.
I plan to charge the gates of hell with our Web Campus. Who’s with me?
2000 years ago Christ said the gates of Hades will not overcome his church, and that "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
I sincerely believe the internet campus is the greatest means of sharing the gospel and reaching people for Christ we've had since Gutenburg's press.
And like Nick said, it would be a sin against Christ to let the gift of such an opportunity go to waste.
1 comment:
Thanks for being willing to support the Web Campus, Joe. You're already spreading the word, and for that I praise God. If you ever want to be more deeply involved, just drop me a line.
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