FEATURE
Is the Pandemic Unchurching our Ch W
hen Was the Last Time You Went to Church? People may respond, “Do you mean physically to the building or virtually to an online digital program?” With the impact of the pandemic, the landscape of "going to church" is looking very different. The pandemic has caused churches to either close down physical worship services or cut down the number of people who can attend to lessen the transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
16
Alberta Adventist News
JUNE 2021
Our world has changed literally overnight, and so has our relationship with the church as we once knew it. It has been said that there are more people viewing and watching online church services now than ever before. Because of these cataclysmic changes, we need to ask the question, What is a church? What will the church look like post-pandemic? How do we want the church of the future to look? Where will the church be in five, ten, or twenty years? These may be
some tough and challenging questions on which to focus, but if the church is going to thrive well into the future, we must confront the reality of global changes that are taking place right now. Pajamas and Online Church I think it might be safe to assume that when we finally make it through this Covid era, many people that attended church pre-Covid, will not be coming back to the building. Instead of waking up and dressing up in Sabbath's best
