![]() ![]() I can personally confirm this easy access to great teaching. What if church leaders reallocated some of the time that had been devoted to sermon preparation, and instead used it to curate the best online biblical resources and content for their people to engage with, Monday through Saturday?” ![]() There is a lot of excellent, orthodox content available online – but few churches are helping their people find and engage with it. This low demand and high supply means the market for Bible instruction has reduced the cost to virtually zero. Technology has Transformed Usīut, says Jethani, “With the advent of digital technology and smartphones, we are witnessing the most significant shift in communication since the printing press.Anyone with a smartphone may access thousands of sermons from anywhere, anytime. Each step in this evolution of information-sharing affected the shape of Christian meeting practices. We’ve gone from scrolls to hand-written codexes to printing presses to electronic devices. In his article, Jethani, a pastor and former Managing and Executive Editor of Leadership Journal, “explains why digital technology is disrupting our 500-year-old emphasis on lengthy Sunday sermons.” He traces some of the dramatic leaps in humankind’s ability to communicate. ![]() The most recent example of movement in this direction just came to my attention-an October 2019, Premier Christianity article by Sky Jethani: “The Case Against Sermon-Centric Sundays.” They are seeing that church-as-silent-audience cannot measure up to church-as-one-anothering seen in the New Testament. But more and more church leaders are questioning our customary Sunday ways. ![]()
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