The Box Continues to Get Bigger
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I feel like I’ve been on a journey over the course of the last five years. When I look back to who I was and where I was (not physically as much as spiritually), it is amazing how what God has brought me through in that short amount of time. I see more of Who He is, how great He is, and how amazing the Church that He brought into existence is!
Tonight was another small step in the journey.
LifeChurch.tv, perhaps one of the most cutting edge (not in a trendy way, but in a ‘there are no barriers’ kind of way) churches out there right now has been pushing a seven day emphasis and challenge called LifeShare - focused on what it means to ‘be the Church’ online. We live in a day and age when the online portion of life is as real as any other part that people experience. Not everyone, but a lot (and I mean a lot) of people relate in this way.
LifeShare officially came to a close tonight with their last final webcast. As a part of this shared online experience, we gathered together and shared communion - Christ followers gathered together from all over the world sharing in the sacrifice of Christ together through this online experience. It was great!
I know some of you are probably very skeptical. That’s okay. Where I am at today, though, is that it has been a long time since I have taken communion. It was good. Even though I had never met most of the people that were sharing this experience with me, I still knew that they were people who were on this same journey that I was on. And it was good.
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Kenneth shared their voice on 09.25.2008:
What a cool way to experience communion! Can’t say that I have ever participated in communion that way, but to me it is similar to when I have had communion at YS conferences. I had the privilige to share in that moment with thousands of people that I didn’t personally know but who had gathered for one purpose in Christ. Love that you used the word journey to describe where you are at right now and have been over the last several years. I feel that is the best way to describe our relationship with Christ. As far as the skeptical goes, that is okay with me because anything new brings some skepticism and that isn’t bad. We need to examine everything, new and old, to test it. It is a tool to bring us into the journey with Christ, nothing more. For me perosnally, the only part of the on-line experience that concerns me is that we came become observers without participating (which can happen in a church building as well) and that we isolate ourselves from having community with those people that we live with in the day to day. For me those relationships are often what keep me from losing my focus on the important things.