Hi, this is Hank Hanegraff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answerband broadcast with another Hank Unplugged short.

I'm sitting here sort of dazed after an operation on my head for a squamous cancer removal.

I now have a big ugly scar on the back of my head.

I suppose it matches what's up front.

But at any rate, I'm reading an article that's titled,

Are Internet Services as Good as the Church. And as I'm reading

this, an article by Paul Glatter and John Samakula, I think it is. Anyway, as I'm reading this

article, I'm just thinking out loud. It's an article about how digital worship has sort of overtaken the Christian church, particularly

the evangelical Christian church, and how almost half of people that responded to a survey

now believe that online services are as good as in-person services.

And so many of these people don't want to return to in-person worship.

And as I'm thinking about this, I'm thinking about how people who are involved in digital worship now find it convenient to multitask

and even to shop around for other church experiences and how these same people now can dabble

in Christianity without really being accountable or committed.

And how this is a complete misunderstanding of what the church actually is.

When you are baptized, you are baptized into a body. You're incorporated into the body of Christ.

And so church, by its very nature, is an embodied experience.

It's not just about having a corpus of intellectual precepts.

It's not just about listening to good TED talks with a spiritual

slant. It's a sacramental experience. It's a Eucharistic assembly. We gather together and we partake of the medicine of immortality that transforms us.

Sacraments are dispensed within a body.

Christianity knows nothing about Lone Ranger experiences.

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