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I think that has been the most interesting part of the pandemic for me -- how church has changed and adapted. I sometimes find myself in the bay area to meet cl

I think that has been the most interesting part of the pandemic for me -- how church has changed and adapted. I sometimes find myself in the bay area to meet clients, and if I'm there on a weekend there's a church I tend to go to (NBCC). One day on a whim I said to my family, why don't we "attend" last week's NBCC? So we did. Apparently the Mandarin-speaking congregation (in my home church in Sydney) is getting a lot of attendees from Beijing. When the restrictions were somewhat lifted (so that you could have more than immediate family in your house), we started a system where we rotate around to different people's houses in groups to join the videoconference. There's no reason we couldn't have done these things before, but we just didn't do it until now.

Jemaclus 6y ago
My mother-in-law is a die-hard Catholic and has been raging for the past three months because she can't go to church, and I just don't understand why she can't just watch the live-stream that the priest is doing. But for her, there's something about physically accepting communion. (I'm not Catholic, so I don't really get it, but I've been sternly informed that I should just not talk about that with them lol). I've often thought of churches as a poor man's country club more than as a house of God, and so yeah, I'm with you! I don't see why this can't just go remote like most everything else. I do wonder how the long-term landscape will change due to COVID...