009: The Church Has Left The Building

Join hosts Kirk White and Christina Sheer as they discuss Christina’s experience moving to a new town and her feelings about pursuing a new church. Many churches have switched to online services now, which has allowed churches to be more accessible than ever before. A lot of churches aren’t offering in-person services at all right now, and the major ministries have announced physical closures until 2021.

Christina talks about how many ministries aren’t set up to deal with providing online services. How are they supposed to integrate into a new church experience without any outreach initiatives? How will churches move forward without having four physical walls? Kirk and Christina are interested to see how the impacts of COVID-19 will impact individual churches and church funding.

Online service can actually benefit churches as some have actually received more churchgoers than usual, given the fact that the capacity for attendance is unlimited. This has also allowed those who are afraid or are uncomfortable attending church to participate in services. A data research showed that the percentage of people discovering Christ outside of the physical walls of church has multiplied tenfold.

Going forward, the church is going to have to adapt and change. Kirk and Christina talk about how this can potentially be a good thing as this may cause the churches to forego the typical “Sunday service” and focus on an around the clock, community initiative. What’s really important to you in a church? Pursue that and live life based on what’s really important to you.