Churches ought to desert all social networks. Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. All of it. I understand the arguments for having a social networks existence … it’s ‘where individuals are’ ‘it’s the modern-day age’, ‘it equates into real life action’, and so on.
These might be partial facts. Nevertheless. Churches ought to desert all social networks.
The Church is not like the world. It is not of the world. It is counter to the world. It is opposed to the world. It is of Paradise. It is of God. It is an alternative to the world.
Yet Churches have actually enabled the world into the Church, and have actually embraced the methods of the world in outreach.
Scrolling online one gets a feed of harmful influencers, news, jokes, viewpoints, bots, adverts, spiritual suggestions, health and wellbeing trends, a banquet of worldliness. Include the Church statements and some streamlined ‘God Prices estimate’ and the message is that the Church belongs to the world, here it is, next up, transsexual toilets and anti-semitism. Keep scrolling. The Church needs to not be contending for the attention of individuals in this undignified method.
The Church requires to separate itself from the world since it is, and ought to be, separate from the world. It is not off the world, to bundle it together with degenerate material reduces it to the requirements of the world. It does not raise the degenerate material, that material can not be anything besides degenerate, it can not be made ‘more light’ anymore than a pig can be made more lamb by presenting a sheep into the sty.
So when the Church has dropped all its social networks efforts, has gotten rid of from its plate that side assisting of dross, what should they do rather?
Supply an area for knowing. Have a library of numerous Christian books to be checked out in convenience. Have tea, and beverages, and treats to invite those who pertain to the House of the Lord. A location of knowing, and welcome, and prayer, and recovery and praise. A location to bring individuals closer to God.
And when individuals pertain to their specific conclusions that the world has actually fallen, and stopped working, and when they are searching for real significance, and enduring identity in the crisis, they will discover themselves directed to the Churches.
And there they will discover a various world to the one that exists beyond its doors. They will discover the reality. And credibility. And depth, and truth, and relationship, and friendship and release from isolation. And they will discover God in the peace and stillness.
And this will be even more effective for its clear delineation from the world. It will be a sanctuary, a sanctuary, a location of security and peace of mind in a world of mayhem of dissolution.
How will they discover this location, if it is not promoted on social networks, if it is not packaged as another amazing part of the falling apart architecture of civilisation?
They will discover it. Have faith. It is that easy.
They should enter the Church and understand, right away, that this is various to anywhere they have actually ever been. This is not of the world. This is the House of the Lord.
Church is not a service. As quickly as Churches utilize organization techniques that sound right in theory, counted and determined in metrics of efficiency, they are changing God’s method with male’s method. Which is not the Method.
Bird Lovegod is MD of EthicalMuch
