Can You Gather With God Over Zoom?

And even if we wanted to return to God, where on earth is His dwelling place anyway?

I need to cultivate the practice of meeting Christ in these small moments of grief, frustration, and anger, of encountering Christ’s death and resurrection—this big story of brokenness and redemption—in a small, gray, stir-crazy Tuesday morning.

To live the life of faith is to hear the silent cry of the afflicted, the lonely and marginal, the poor, the sick and the disempowered, and to respond. For the world is not yet mended, there is work still to do, and God has empowered us to do it – with him, for him and for his faith in us.

One of the communities I love is a group of folks who gather below an interstate bridge in Waco, Texas, each week for worship. They creatively call themselves Church under the Bridge.5 Over a decade ago, homeless folks and their friends began meeting for Bible study and grub, and now there are hundreds of folks from all walks of life trying to figu

“The true task facing pastors and lay leaders,” he wrote, “is that of reminding wayward members of the benefits of spiritual education, the joy of community, and the richness of fellowship with other believers.”11

Anyone who has ever attended a religious service (or any event) with children knows it is a constant struggle to get them to sit still, pay attention and not distract those around them. Every Sunday in the pew is a battle of wills. But if in-person services were a skirmish, online church is war.