In this post by Nick Charalambous, he reveals some issues surrounding the condition of the traditional church service and how it translates online. He does this by showing why people attend church online.This got me thinking about the future of the Church 2.0 movement and the new issues future church leaders will face. I'd like to list a few of those issues here so we could begin to run down some solutions, but that's just it....we can't anticipate problems we've never run into before.
When a new disease is discovered in the world of medicine, the cure calls for the creation of a new type of medicine. Sometimes the disease is a form of a known disease that has mutated or been amplified by other bacterium. This situation can be remedied not by creating a new medicine from scratch, but by tweaking a current method of treatment.
Since church on the web is a relatively new form of ministry, leaders will face problems and issues that have no known solution. We must be creative in finding new remedies. It is essential that we resist the urge to try and cure these issues with tried and tested methods used to tackle problems in the traditional "brick and mortar" church.
The same old problem-solving methods may mask the symptoms of future issues, but it's going to take brand new methods we haven't even thought of yet to cure the new problems ahead. This is when leaders should rely on God the most. The quicker we ask God for answers, the quicker we can pinpoint problems and fix them so that nothing hinders the life-changing message of God online.
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