Neighbor Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 949 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,522 Content Per Day: 5.02 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted September 1, 2018 (edited) I am thinking that not all things that go bad are necessarily built of all bad things. What of the way one Robert Schuller started- preaching at a drive in movie theater with people able to listen from their cars or gathered around the movie's screen area or play areas? What he came to be preaching was askew, but what of the idea of using today's technology to enhance a real get out of the house go to church experience with the family by letting people sit in their vehicles, or gather on lawns, or playgrounds, and picnic areas as well as in church "pews" to worship in song, hear the word of God, and to fellowship one with another while also having a weekly picnic all on church grounds or grounds used by church? I am thinking why not let people unite informally, yet under formal organization. If that is to be done, was not Schuller's original idea actually an ideal way to gather today with the ease of today's communication technologies ? Edited September 1, 2018 by Neighbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 686 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 221 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted September 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Neighbor said: or gather on lawns, or playgrounds, and picnic areas Sounds like a real good idea to me, more so if no one takes a collection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 949 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,522 Content Per Day: 5.02 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Yowm said: NO. I believe God designed the Church to have real time flesh and blood interaction, ministering to the physical needs as well as the spiritual needs of His flock. Here I was thinking having a more informal setting would better allow for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 949 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,522 Content Per Day: 5.02 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, john1 said: Sounds like a real good idea to me, more so if no one takes a collection. Funny! I do believe that giving is both a high privilege and a duty of worship to God. Edited September 1, 2018 by Neighbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frienduff thaylorde Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 17 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 13,256 Content Per Day: 5.35 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 62 Joined: 07/07/2017 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1972 Share Posted September 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Yowm said: NO. I believe God designed the Church to have real time flesh and blood interaction, ministering to the physical needs as well as the spiritual needs of His flock. I ONLY KNOW of one ROBERT SCHULER . OH heavens sake that man is monster false . One of the main early pioneers of the utter junk we see today . I mean what have the churches turned too . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 686 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 221 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted September 1, 2018 32 minutes ago, Neighbor said: I do believe that giving is both a high privilege and a duty of worship to God. I agree with you the church should give for a change, their's plenty of pastors without a church that could do it, even more so since greed won't be involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frienduff thaylorde Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 17 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 13,256 Content Per Day: 5.35 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 62 Joined: 07/07/2017 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1972 Share Posted September 1, 2018 IT wont matter where we gather , in a field a cave , a hill , a house . BUT IT DOES MATTER WHO WE SIT UNDER . I could care less if folks gathered in the streets for church . What a joy actually. ITS WHO they gather under and the doctrine that gets taught . THAT MATTERS . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr3032 Posted September 1, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 332 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 273 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/23/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted September 1, 2018 At the very least though, i'd advise against online streams. Even if most of the Christian streams i've seen were "satirical," they tend to attract a certain particular crowd, either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted September 2, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 949 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,522 Content Per Day: 5.02 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Yowm said: Maybe, but not rolling up to the speaker in your '57 Edsel in a crowded Drive-in theatre somewhere in Orange County, and then driving off into the sunset. Ah but they didn't drive off. They stayed, communed, fellowshipped, and shared with much of Orange County California. Lots of good people, saints in Christ Jesus, new believers, so many young families. That the theology became a Norman Vincent Peale continuation was another thing altogether. Thing is the people did bond, did share and did spread the word too. They also began to hear and then spread the gospel of wealth to be gained by the "power of posibility thinking", ( and the Orange County real estate market) above the eternal wealth to be secured in Jesus. Eventually it was all to fall, and that grand edifice no longer the easy to gather at drive in theater, but instead just another opulent edifice. They went from simple worship, gathering, and serious fellowship, to all out motivational type presentation where wealth is success and success is wealth. It worked early on in the Orange County land boom, but in it's last years the dominoes they had stood up all starting falling, the congregation saw they were following a man and not Christ. The man whose pride broke even his own family apart was thrown out for a time, and it all tumbled hard. The Crystal Cathedral property was bought up by the Orange County Roman Catholic Achdiocese and made into a school campus. None the less many first learned of our Lord even late in the shadow and reflections of all the glitz paved over the older real estate of simple origins. It had started well, then success begat more success and greed for more than money, greed for fame and pride, killed it all. ps- 58, no 57 Edited September 2, 2018 by Neighbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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