Is an online church a church?
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Yes. A church is a body of believers. In our world we think of the actual church buildings. But its actually the people inside. I have seen many strong churches that are held in schools and daycares but didn’t have a building per se.
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They want to jam network here too? Leave us alone
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Online church has a purpose, to build a community using advance technology to spread the gospel to nations around the world, since no one can be everywhere physically at once, online church offers you to tune in via different platforms to watch and hear the gospel anywhere in the world..
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A church is the body of Christ, not a building.
As long as there is worship & fellowship there is church.
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Yes. Now it is certainly a necessary to engage with other believers, because the believers are the church. But as long as the word is preached… online church is still church.
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Negative ghost Rider.
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The body of true believers is The Church
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No, the people are
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The early church had no buildings and effectively changed the world.
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Who is the church? All christians in the world.
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For a short time it is fine to do online services. But the bible tells us not to forsake the gathering together of the saints. ( only in Catholicism does saints have to be dead. In christianity they are those who are made righteous by GOD.”
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Connie that’s right
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Online or a physical building – these are simply a medium for the body of Christ to express our love for Christ. Church so in essence is the people not the medium.
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The word is not limited nor is faith or true fellowship. It may be slowed down a bit but not fatal if weas alive in tbe first place. The real barrier is our sinful human hearts that will use any and no reason not to believe. That is always the biggest leap.
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Neither online nor under the roof but followers of Christ are church.
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A body of believers is a church. The building or the web page is just a medium to engage the body.
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Church is you and me. It’s the body of Christ, those that have believed on His Name. Church is not the building or what we air online
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None of today’s churches irregardless of method are headed by Jesus. “For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.” Romans 2:13
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Is an online bank a bank?
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No the people are the church The people are the only church There’s only one body of Christ there’s nothing to do with physical buildings online offline or anything else We are the body of Christ He is the head.
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The people are the church, the body of believers are the church. Doesn’t matter if they meet online, off-line, or on the moon. You are always the church, in every season out of every season that is what you are. Exclusively and indefinitely.
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The Curch is the people not the walls
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No. A church is a physical gathering of people.
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The church isn’t a building, YOU ARE THE CHURCH! THE PEOPLE ARE THE CHURCH! Represent Christ where ever you go! I’m not saying do your own thing like teaching a service at your house lol you need to be guided by an expert like your Pastors there needs to be an authority. But what I am saying is represent Christ EVERYWHERE!!!!! ?
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You yourself are the Church
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No building or online service or anything like that is the church. PEOPLE are the church.
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Church has zero to do with a building and everything to do with people.
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A church is church when they’re on line with God’s Word.
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There’s no biblical answer for technology that didn’t exist. So I’d say yes because people can come together and honor God.
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If it preaches the true Gospel of Christ, it is, online or not
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Remember the scripture where Jesus washed the feet of the disciples? A perfect symbolic euphemism of a bridge connecting God and man? and can you technologically bridge that gap he commanded to do?
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I struggle with that too, but we know at least that worship is in spirit and in truth. Requires no building. But the gathering and ministering to each other and seeing to each other part… I don’t know.
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No
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We are the church whether inside or outside a building ?
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Epi Reyes, what’s your answer to your question?
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No.
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What is the Purpose and Mission of the Body of Christ Jesus? Therein you will find your answer. Read/Study the Holy Word of God.
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No
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We are the church
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The church is the people not a building so yes, but it is better when the people (the church) meet together
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No
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The church is people devoted to Jesus.
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The online church is still part of the body of Christ. It’s not the building that make the church it’s the faith of the believers
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Is FaceTime with a loved one even face time?
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Why not?
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Why not?
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The people are the church, but online services should not take the place of congregating with other believers on a regular basis.
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Welcome cyber saints
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Yes
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Nope
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Church is the gathering of the saints. I kinda think of it as a family get together, but instead of food, we’re fed the gospel of Jesus Christ. If the only way to gather is the internet, then that’ll have to work. But it should be personal, to help each other grow. As iron sharpens iron…
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YES
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The church never changes by definition. Its all those that have saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Are you asking if Christians can attend service online?
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NO
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Acts says they met house to house that what we need to go back to and stop spending big bucks on building and over size staff
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I mean yeah. But there are things you just can’t get online that comes with fellowship in person.
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Is an online family possible?
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We are the church. NOT A BUILDING OR BUSINESS.
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You are the church honwy
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It depends on how you see the defination of church. 🙂
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Church is the people. Not the place nor technology itself.
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This is the thing we have to understand that church is not a building but a group of people,
It’s you and it’s me no matter where and how we get together, online in the air, or in the building.
The actual matter is how much you are willing, what is your intention.
To whom you want to glorify?
To whom worshiping, there is no question why but whom ? -
We are the church building is not church
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silly question
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The building does make the church. We are the church, the building is just a building.
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Where two or more are GATHERED in my name…
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I don’t think so. It’s like a TV envagilist They seem so insincere and fake. Although I watch Joel Olsteen once in a while
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What is a church? A building or the people?
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The church service is the gathering together of Christians to be taught the ‘Word of God’ The “church” in “church service” refers to the gathering of the faithful rather than to the building in which it takes place. ✝️
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Yes of course! As long as their spirit is one for the glory of God.
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Only if the people are christians
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People are the church not buildings!
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I think the implied question is if we continue the way things are now can we fulfill the Lord’s command to meet together teach the word and make disciples? What if things don’t change for the next 12 months or two years or five years? I think that is a fair question.
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It’s important how the church meets and functions though. Online services are ok for now but are not an adequate substitute for what Jesus meant
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Don Noriel hop in
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Is an online community a community?
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Is online conference meeting is a meeting? Same question???
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The believers are actually the church, not a particular location. God says that where two or three are gathered in my name, I will be there.
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Yes
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Are people in a building a church. Church is all born again believers all over the globe.
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aren’t your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, thus you are a church while the church building is just a man make structure for the gathering of congregation to jointly worship together as children’s of God or brother and sister in christ.
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The church is not a place. It’s a people
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Fine something else to post
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No
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It is when it teaches the truth and to minimize the spread of Covid-19.
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The church is the body of Christ, not a physical building. So if two or three are gathered, there He is amongst them. So if you mean is Yeshua amidst a gathering of two or three believers on line then yes.
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Are ten people blocks apart from one another an assembly or gathering? Are ten people who are all in their individual houses congregating?
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Yes. The Church is the call out ones
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What do you mean? There’s a building church, there’s the people church, there’s the atmospheric church (heard of that somewhere)…
What do you mean???
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Per scripture church can be anywhere that two or more are gathered in Christ’s name.
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WE are the church.
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Church is all about unity of consensus and togetherness in Christ. It doesn’t matter what form it is.
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yes
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