My offline world as a seriously ill housebound person is limited to receiving delivered shopping, having medics visit- and, occasionally, my daughter. There is no progressive church in my area. I can't be present physically, so online experience allows more than I could have accessed even twenty years ago.
Our Bible studies actually started with a small group gathering in a living room every Thursday night, so this really resonates. I love that the internet lets us share Scripture and connect with people we'd never otherwise meet, but there's something irreplaceable about actually sitting around a table and figuring out how to live it out together.
I have been thinking about this recently. Mainly, the concept of living more in the Little World. I do spend a good amount of time online, but my life is very much stuck in a rut of- work, home, sleep, repeat. I need to be intention of making time to go outside. Literally touch some grass. Be under the sun. We forget how much life there is to live out there. So much to see, feel, taste and smell.
This is good advice for most people. However, I am totally deaf in one ear, have limited hearing in the other. I do have a hearing aid.Going to church is extremely frustrating for me. I can't glean anything from sermons if can't hear them.
I asked if there was way for me to follow along perhaps a powers point type of screen with the written words.Basically, I was told that I wasn't the majority, it's my problem,not theirs.
Amen Bother! This Is So Real And Sad In Many Ways. This Comes To Mind, Be In The World But Not Of The World...... Do Not Be Conformed To This World But Be Transformed By The Renewing Of Your Mind (The Word)....🙏
My offline world as a seriously ill housebound person is limited to receiving delivered shopping, having medics visit- and, occasionally, my daughter. There is no progressive church in my area. I can't be present physically, so online experience allows more than I could have accessed even twenty years ago.
Our Bible studies actually started with a small group gathering in a living room every Thursday night, so this really resonates. I love that the internet lets us share Scripture and connect with people we'd never otherwise meet, but there's something irreplaceable about actually sitting around a table and figuring out how to live it out together.
I have been thinking about this recently. Mainly, the concept of living more in the Little World. I do spend a good amount of time online, but my life is very much stuck in a rut of- work, home, sleep, repeat. I need to be intention of making time to go outside. Literally touch some grass. Be under the sun. We forget how much life there is to live out there. So much to see, feel, taste and smell.
This is good advice for most people. However, I am totally deaf in one ear, have limited hearing in the other. I do have a hearing aid.Going to church is extremely frustrating for me. I can't glean anything from sermons if can't hear them.
I asked if there was way for me to follow along perhaps a powers point type of screen with the written words.Basically, I was told that I wasn't the majority, it's my problem,not theirs.
Amen Bother! This Is So Real And Sad In Many Ways. This Comes To Mind, Be In The World But Not Of The World...... Do Not Be Conformed To This World But Be Transformed By The Renewing Of Your Mind (The Word)....🙏
So good!