You’ll be able to attend NewSpring Church Easter services without leaving your home. For the first time ever, you’ll be able to participate in Easter services anywhere you have a high speed Internet connection through NewSpring’s web campus. It will be available for Easter services, allowing people across the globe to go to church without leaving their homes.
Through the web campus, people can participate in worship with the Anderson campus band, listen to Senior Pastor Perry Noble teach and take notes online. The web campus also allows people share experiences and thoughts in a live chat room and connect with others attending through social media and small groups.
“We don’t think there should be any barriers to hearing the good news of Jesus,” said Nick Charalambous, NewSpring’s web campus pastor. “We know people are living more of their lives online every day, and we want to offer them an option to learn how God can transform their lives with joy, hope and purpose without their having to visit a church.”
The NewSpring web campus services will be at 11:15 am and 6 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) and 11 am Pacific Standard Time (PST) on our website www.NewSpring.cc.
Do you have friends or family who aren’t interested in going to a church for services on Easter? Maybe this is an easy invite that would allow them to participate in an Easter service from the comfort of their own home. Spread the word.
Tony,
I appreciate web resources as much or more than the average person, and think that having sermons available online is a very good resource. However, I would submit that the chief purpose of online resources should be first auxilary – that is, in addition to church service. The second purpose would be “if-necessary substitutionary” – that is, if someone is in a place not serviced by a church that particular Sunday. The tertiary purpose (and I am not sure of it) would be introductory – to someone who wants to “check out” what’s going on without coming.
I strongly believe that the church is not about the sermon, but the totality of the Body of Christ. To experience a service from the comfort of home should be a temporary experience, as all three purposes show – additional, substitutionary, or introductory. To spend 30 minutes on a couch or treadmill listening to a person, rather than experiencing the “happy chaos” of the time before and after the service, to have a person come up and ask about you, is to deny a vital part of church. As much as the words of sermons were good news to me before I became a Christian, I was much more impacted by how Christians interacted and showed true love and community.
The three purposes I mentioned may be your church’s reasons for having online services. If so, however, I would say that the way it is described in this post is that online services *can* take the place of live services in a person’s life, and I do not believe this can not be the case. There is a difference between hearing a sermon and “going to church”. Community is not an option – it is a vital part of the good news.
I will be interested in your response.
In Him,
Kevin
Scrolling down later, I hadn’t yet read the “chicken v. liver” post. My last post could be simplified to this: online can’t and shouldn’t be church’s chicken (and I apologize for that very, very bad pun).
Kevin