Soooo, I had a brain blast this morning. I was thinking about shut-ins, social phobics and agoraphobics and how hard it would be for them to go to church and how they probably still need a church community. Then, I was thinking about how would my major as a graphic designer figure into God's grand design and my possible attendance of seminary. So I was thinking that a great way to bring the two together would be to have a welcoming well designed 'church' online for people to access.

People could post online video sermons that you could recieve by day, week or month or just browse by subject or length. There could be chat rooms and forums for people to interact with one another in and church search engines to find a live church near you. Also, if you met someone on online church and you wanted to meet them in real life, you could both go to church together somewhere. That way you would know someone there, already, and you also could meet in a safe place for the first time.

Also, if you checked 'finding a live church' as a goal at sign-up (which you could change at any time) then the online church could give you soft to active encouragement to meet you goals whenever you signed in! Other goals could be "get more involved in the online church" or "get more involved in the community" (and we could have a search engine or direct to other search engines that you can search for volunteer opportunities).

Also, you could send messages to online pastors or talk to them live on an online chat.

I looked online and they do have some online church, but unfortunately, like most things in the christian world, they have TERRIBLE graphic design. So that would be something else I could do: design graphically for churches. Churches are really great at advertising, but I have a feeling they don't really have the money to spend on graphic design. So! That's my idea. If you want to join in on it, say if you are good at the programming side of websites, or a designer like me, or if you are a pastor whose interested (really not sure any of those types of people read this blog, but its a shot) then comment below and I'll try and figure out some way to get in touch with you.

Hmm.
I've found that online relationships just aren't real enough. Then again, I'm not one of the people described above, who might value them more. Just seems kind of impersonal.

I guess it depends on whether a "little" bit of church, an impersonal one, is better than no church at all. At first I'd say yes, but I'm not really sure.
» middaymoon on 2008-12-08 09:11:22

Right on.
Good luck in your endeavors. :D
» middaymoon on 2008-12-08 09:27:09

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