Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to helping modern day believers live out the teachings of the First Century Church.

This podcast is part of the teaching ministry of Dr. David K. Bernard.

Dr. Bernard is dedicated his life to studying the Bible and helping believers apply its message to their daily lives.

In Apostolic Life in the 21st century, Dr. Bernard answers your questions about what the Bible

teaches and how those teachings apply to everyday life.

Thank you for joining us for this broadcast.

So a little over two years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic hit North America, as we all know,

and government officials started asking everyone to quarantine.

And as a result out of that, many churches for the first time began to stream their worship

services online.

Thankfully, most churches have been able to gather back in person for many months now, but a lot of churches are still streaming online. Thankfully, most churches have been able to gather back in person for many months now,

but a lot of churches are still streaming online as a form of outreach, and seems, by the way,

to be very effective. I would say just having done this in the past during quarantine, that

watching church from the comfort of your recliner does seem to have some advantages. We can pray,

we can worship, we can hear preaching

all without leaving home. And many pastors are reporting to us that at least some members are

seem to be opting out of in-person worship services permanently in favor of online church.

So I guess that leads to a question. Is online church a sufficient replacement

for in-person worship? And why should we bother with the hassle of getting dressed on a Sunday

morning and going to church in person when we could just worship at home from our living room?

Let's start with Hebrews 1025. It says, forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is.

And then it goes on to say, you should actually be meeting even more as you see the day of the Lord approaching.

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