Saturday I was looking over the Twitter comments when I happened upon this:
loswhit LifeChurch.tv is, how can I put this,WAY ahead of the game. The online experience is not only cool,it makes you want to stay.That is a win. 07:43 PM September 06, 2008 from web
loswhit Hey tweets. Come join @tonysteward and I here… http://internet.lifechurch.tv/ 07:23 PM September 06, 2008 from web
LIfeChurch? I go to LifeChurch. I didn’t know they had an internet campus so I clicked on the link Los provided and found myself on the internet campus’s web page. I immediately started reading, clicking, and becoming excited. It looked pretty cool.
So Sunday morning I experienced the internet campus at LifeChurch. It was AWESOME! It was AMAZING! It was nothing like I expected.
I had watched the sermon videos online before and that was pretty much what I expected. Nope. This was not it. I actually experienced church. You:
- show up
- visit with others (there is a lobby chat room to chat before/after service)
- have praise and worship (you choose between two different bands to listen to and the words are on the screen just as if you were there live)
- take an offering (you can use paypal)
- can raise your hand (a button comes up when the Pastor asks for people to raise their hands if they need prayer)
- can get saved (at the salvation call the hand raise button comes back on). At the service I attended 17 people made the decision to follow Jesus.
This was real church people. There was interaction. It wasn’t just me sitting in front of my computer watching an online message, I was participating with others from all over. Also, you can’t just hop online and have church anytime you choose, there are scheduled services. You purposely sit in front of your computer and choose to go to church. How amazing!
I was blown away by my experience. God is using LifeChurch to tear away any misconceptions I have ever had about church. First, it was through the satellite/video teaching and now through their internet campus. Thank you Lord for choosing me for such a time as this.
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Craig Groeschel is the real deal. I have recently had a “training session” to host a Lifechurch.tv life group here in Germany. We’ll meet once a week like a regular church small group and on Sunday, we’ll meet up at my house where I’ll have the computer hooked up to the big screen and we’ll have church as you described in your post.
When you’re on a military installation in a foreign country, you’re not going to find anything similar to this experience. You won’t find that kind of worship music played at a church. For us, it brings a feeling of “home”.
What impresses me most about lifechurch though is the accessibility of the staff. From Terry Storch to Bobby Gruenewald to the chat administrators during “the services”….I’ve never waited more than a few hours for a response to a tweet or email. When you have thousands of followers, that’s impressive!!