I recently visited a church that uses the satellite church model. They provide live worship and then stream in the sermon from their mother church. My overall take was pretty positive. The atmosphere was very friendly and the worship was great. The video sermon was beneficial and spiritually practical. Even though it was all good, I couldn't help but wonder why we are seeing this method spread across our country. Is this method growing because it's a great model or because we are not grooming new pastors/preachers?
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to this model. I'm simply wondering if this model was birthed out of necessity. Technology, which I lovingly embrace, has opened up many more ways to do "church" this method is just a foretaste of things to come. Live streaming has been made extremely accessible. If you own a camera, computer, and have Internet access you can stream services. Sounds easy and fun doesn't it? You know what is not so easy and sometimes a burden? Raising up a new pastor. Perhaps we should be discipling a new crop of pastors while or even instead of creating satellite churches. If no pastor can be raised then perhaps a streaming services is the way to go. But, most people would agree, a live pastor is much more beneficial to a community than a "streamed"pastor.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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- Paul LaRose
- Paul LaRose currently serves as the Discipleship Ministries Director for the Kentucky District of the Assemblies of God. He is also Senior Pastor of New Harvest Assembly of God in Frankfort, Kentucky. His passion for discipleship and Christian education is made evident by the fruits of his ministry labor. Paul has been involved in two successful church plants. He served as the Associate Pastor at Harmony Tabernacle AG in Dallas, Texas planted in 2001 where he developed the Christian Education program from the ground up. He currently pastors New Harvest AG planted in 2002. New Harvest is one of the fastest growing AG church plants in the Kentucky District and provides a strong Discipleship and CE program for all those that attend. Paul has been working with the Kentucky School of Ministry in course development. He wrote the course work for the Youth Leaders Tract and is finishing the Children’s Workers Tract. These courses are being used in many of our Assemblies of God Schools of Ministry.