online worship: it’s personal »

by Simon Cooper

Our message in HQs today was all about John Ch.9 and how when someone has a personal undeniable experience with God all the explanations and questions that have been obstacles to their faith shrink.

We had another go at letting people join us online for our Sunday worship and we had quite a few people join us: not sure exactly how many, but it was good to hear the STF team was joining us all the way from Belgium and we had a couple of students also from Scotland tune in.

One thing I would recommend checking out is Terry Sweeney singing ‘come what may’ @ 15minutes 20 secs. into the service. He is the soul man.

It felt good to know even when the room is almost full we can make space for others to join in and connect through their computer. Really felt people were worshipping during the music.

Will put the message power point up tomorrow, but here are a couple of pictures from the slides with some v cool models:

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Me and Magnus watched it from up here in Dundee, Scotland, it was really nice and it reminded me of the good old LG times. I will definitely watch it every week I cannot attend in Scotland it being too expensive to travel to Edinburgh. Some points to maybe improve, would be to maybe check that the sounds stays constant and picks up the sound well from the room all throughout, for example when Wen Cheng prayed we could not hear anything, and that the powerpoint can be seen all the way throughout. But otherwise, its a great step forward and opens up a lot of doors for a lot of people and thanks a lot for the service Simon.

Ritatsu Thomas - 7 March 2010

Dearest brothers and sisters in Britain. I had a wonderful time watching and (thus participating in) your sunday service in London.I felt, I was back in Britain again after many years of being away -it is.. since the days of the cruseade in 1978 to mid 1980-- a time which I enjoyed immmencely. And great wonders!!! Thanks to the internet, now I can attend your sunday service (later on in the day or evening time) here in Denmark. Thank you so much.I will be looking forward to next sunday. God bless you all. Jorgen Bramsen

jorgen Bramsen - 8 March 2010

Hey - Great service, really inspiring! All the members in the STF team really felt like we were connected to our church whilst being many miles away. The message was also really relevant, as one of our focuses here in Belgium is to develop that personal relationship with God, and have our own personal experiences, so that when we come back to London to witness, we'll have some solid ground to stand on in terms of our faith! Thanks, and we're looking forward to next week!

Daniel Pollitt - 8 March 2010

thanks everyone, and it really means a lot to us here in HQ church having you join us on Sundays. Kind of helps us to brush up our standards, and get everything in sync cuz I know time feels longer online or when something is being broadcasted. If u have any suggestions how to make the online experience better for you, or generally for the service, please keep sending in your feedback: give and take - it's a divine principle.

Simon Cooper - 8 March 2010

Hello Simon! I watched your sermon from Belgium with STF team that day. I can say, it is good and important development - to learn how to broadcast a SS online. And I agree with Daniel Politt - it might be very helpful for one on frontline. Further more, as far as I know, it was unusual for an STF team to partispate a SS. Good job! Yet, I'm sorry to notice that you couldn't find a chance to improve your orator's skill (I belive, there are members who like to count how many "parasite" words you may pronounce during cermon)!

Yuri Bachmann - 7 May 2010

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