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5 Responses to “SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World”

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   David T. Bourgeois on February 13, 2010 @ 9:48 am

   Here is my review of this book, which I first wrote on my blog last fall. You can view and scores of other books on faith and technology related to my blog to find [. . . ]. For those of you familiar with this new movement is the idea of the church in line is not only a record of your online service. Instead, it is actually the implementation of a cult in direct line with the worship, education, supply, community, or communion and baptism. This includes the two churches with an Internet campus, and those who are able to provide services in virtual worlds like Second Life. The author addresses questions about the validity of the church in line and ask tough questions. He ends the book by requiring churches online that have the form and try to do things that no physical world, the Church can brechen.Wenn you read my blog before, you know I am a critic of the church were to be online. But as a lover of technology and the Internet, I am always open to new ways of thinking about things and want to see how technology can be used to share the message of Christ. But I am also realistic: “I know that just because we do not want the church can do online, we should. Then I read this book looking with an open mind and heart – new ways of thinking about the church online. SimChurch Some highlights for me: – A definition of virtual church as “a gathering of people near the house of God in meaningful community with the task of building the empire.” – The author here on those within the Church described in Acts 2 as a means of discrediting the church would use virtual. The early church, there was a very special moment in history, and we will never fully managed to catch up. churches today can not expect everything to Acts 2 Church .- The discussion is about how our vision of the Western world is blurring our understanding of “presence.” define presence as the location of our body, is not a gift of God or the biblical idea .- A challenge for Christians to always on guard about how we feel. Given all that we are practically in any way, we should totally transparent about our online lives. identity and authenticity, will be key issues in virtual church .- A faithful churches to start churches in the virtual community offers. The exact modalities of how to They will be prepared by each community in their traditions and their understanding. baptisms should also be available on line .- The Church must use its strengths to things, the physical world, the Church can not do (or at least not well ) .- Douglas Estes is a supporter of the church in line and in this book, he makes a very good case that it is important to move forward, the churches and the challenges that face Chief even match. I really enjoyed reading this book and was invited to a deepening denken.Leider online at the church, I am not yet convinced that the participation of visiting viewed in a religious service on Internet and communicate with a computer and in fact, a church physically. According to my experience, this is the kind of worship, community and community experience online anemic compared to what you can for full participation in a church physical world (and not on issues related to communion and baptism above) to obtain. Now that would not be a big problem for me if not for the fact that this online church never encouraged those who hoped participate online in a church physical world. I had this SimChurch dealing with this issue, but it nicht.Nun come, I repeat, I believe it is imperative that Christians take the Internet as a mission field and learn to understand them. I would not spend so much time to do with the churches, if I do not feel that was important. With the Internet should be part of a service church. And it is, and must meet the minister in the virtual world, part of what they do. And yes, even providing the possibility that a person to an online service of the church can become part of Department of experience – but it must be clear that every believer is to find a physical community must be part of a gut.Insgesamt I think it SimChurch discover a large church online job and its implications . If you opt for a better understanding of this phenomenon, then I recommend this book. And if you’ve never participated in an online service, I encourage you to do, now that the campus more than forty different internet. Thinking They participate, even in the Church “real life” too. Rating: 4 / 5
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   John M. Hall on February 13, 2010 @ 11:54 am

   For many heads of ministries, the theme of evangelization virtual reality is about as relevant as suits and neckties polyester mile wide. Few, if any, sufficient time to time, checking e-mails and Facebook spend much less on networks of virtual reality like Second Life. Its just not a kingdom, where they always, or even aware. In SimChurch Doug Estes takes the daunting task of extracting the virtual world with the gospel and why it is you do not care. Much of SimChurch explained, is dedicated to exactly what the virtual world. Estes decompresses the chatter associated with virtual environments. It is both useful and necessary for the development of his comparison of the Church in the “real” world and the Church in the virtual world. What value of many ministry officials, as evidenced by the loyalty of his ecclesiology Estes to discuss the implications for ministry in the virtual world. Commenting on those who moved away from the validity of the virtual world, the Ministry Estes writes ,”… it is easy to give examples of unorthodox behavior going forward in church tours – Avatars in lingerie , the conspiracy theories questionable and Christian prophets with marauding trolls. Now that I think of the mind, it is easy to do the same with the churches of the real world. Church in the virtual world sounds exactly as the Church in the real world – many people confused and broken, which “shares” of their confusion and brokenness of others. “It was partly like that, attention to the fact that the” real world “the pastors and churches ignore the parallels to their virtual world to draw colleagues at your own risk. SimChurch is not all about education and awareness. Estes hobby casting a vision of how churches and families that can be removed from the virtual world, we must keep the Gospel. It also describes the possibilities of using the virtual world and engage people who might not otherwise fit darken the doors of a sanctuary in bricks and mortar. Estes wrote: “What if in the future virtual world based on small groups were more powerful than today’s small groups in worship because they are full of experience, which is happens when we invite our friends to our house, not only for nachos and chips with chili cheese and some discussion, but in a service virtual church to participate – especially one that is able to use the power of the world Virtual allow participants to get involved? What if a virtual church pastor said hundreds of these “religious parties” in the real world? “Is the magnitude of the positive message that sends Estes. It is a challenge for the virtual world to redeem and claim them for the Gospel. I found this book very practical and reflection. I asked my assumptions about the virtual world in question, as I honed my understanding of ecclesiology. SimChurch is also for those who regularly carry in technology and for those who do not. In any case, it makes you think about the possibility of taking the Gospel to a mix largely neglected group of people around the world. Rating: 4 / 5
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   Kyle Gilbert on February 13, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

   As an Internet campus pastor for nearly a year under the belt line to the church, I left the book with some skepticism, but my skepticism was completely unwarranted. I finished the book last night and I wanted that I had already read this book! The exploration of the author of the biblical text, church history and the current process was an online Ausnahme.Ich’m reviewing a lot of things I took for granted the online service. Frankly, this book left me more excited than ever about the importance of such Dienstes.Auch if you do not currently engaged in a service line of importance, this book is certainly useful. Rating: 5 / 5
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   Matthew Bailey on February 13, 2010 @ 2:21 pm

   Virtual Church is something that I did not know until recently, but for me the question of how an order to the relevance of such a thing. I noticed there are many controversies on the subject, many dagegen.Allerdings seems none of the grounds as well thought out and researched Sim church. Mr. Estes was careful to explain in detail what happened virtual church (and is not). It also uses examples of how this is not the first time that Christians have been wary of anything new. (Chapter, in which John Wesley and the Methodists, for example) and it could again these fears are unfounded. Distributed for the real purpose of the online church is to reach people to testify, and the Word of God, part of the population (which is significant and rising), not otherwise hear. The argument is “well these people are wrong because they need to enter a” true “church experience. This is not experience that convince everyone. This is another mission. One, the word of God to the most widespread are the corners of the Welt.Mr. Estes is a book to provoke thought and provide his thoughts with the research and script writing. It should be required reading for Subjekt.Bewertung: 5 / 5
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   J. Woods on February 13, 2010 @ 3:57 pm

   If I received a copy of this book by a friend of mine, I was not sure what to expect. I never really spent much time thinking about what might influence it for a church, or as the growing number of technology that means. I’m not even the most religious people. I have faith, but I am not currently in a church and struggle with many aspects of organized religion angehören.That being said, I found this book extremely interesting. Other church members and pastors have already spoken about the work of Estes up ‘and how they help guide the excellent service on the Internet. For me as a layman, the fascination of this book is less an example: “What the Bible calls the legitimacy of the Church” and the translation of this term in a virtual world. I believe that working Estes’ must have an impact beyond the church, although no mistake, this is really his main focus on Buch.Eines chapter, which was really made me think of called “The avatar incarnation. This chapter examines Photos Estes (representations) of yourself in a virtual world, and if people can experience spiritual growth through it. He speaks of how people can be real world changes because of what their avatars, experience, and how their real life affects what they want with their avatar experience. For me, an avatar is always something outside of myself – but Estes argues strong case that even such a thing as an e-mail is an avatar, and that is something very personal ve Einzelnen.Ich has learned much in this book. were organized more I learned about the early church, I learned from the biblical faith that affect the legitimacy of churches, and I learned from virtual worlds and experiences in which I have never taken (eg Second Life), and I was wondering how virtual environments are more and more that are extensions of the real world. Estes argues a strong case that you do not always consider the “real world” that the “virtual world be otherwise, and arguments for their benefits in many different areas. Rating: 5 / 5