Summary: Virtual Church – Online Church Only? | Watch This Episode on YouTube<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/virtual-church-online-church-only\/#arve-youtube-bc5ohi0rin065fa06ff56ef5210375484","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bC5OhI0RIN0?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Virtual Church \u2013 Online Church Only?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/STP-S17-EP09-Online-Church-Only.jpg","uploadDate":"2021-12-02","description":"Virtual Church \u2013 Online Church Only? This topic is addressed by Dr. Richard Caldwell on the Straight Truth Podcast"}<br> <br> <br> <br> Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel<br> <br> Support Our Podcast<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Join Our Mailing List<br> <br> <br> <br> Related MessagesConsider listening to the following sermons that Dr. Caldwell has previously delivered to the flock at Founders Baptist:The Church - Part 1The Church - Part 2Considering OthersA Holy ResponsibilityPerseverance and the Local ChurchThe Supernatural Nature of The ChurchA Believer's Relationship to The ChurchThe Ministers of The Word in the Life of The ChurchThe Behavior of a Healthy Church <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Virtual Church – Online Church Only? | Watch this episode on Vimeo<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/virtual-church-online-church-only\/#arve-vimeo-64167750965fa06ff57a2a567188506","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/641677509?h=43eac165f5&dnt=1&app_id=122963&html5=1&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Virtual Church \u2013 Online Church Only?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/STP-S17-EP09-Online-Church-Only.jpg","uploadDate":"2021-12-02","description":"Virtual Church \u2013 Online Church Only?"}<br> <br> <br> <br> Follow Us On Vimeo<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Listen to the Audio Podcast<br> <br> <br> Subscribe on iPhone<br> <br> Subscribe on Android<br> <br> Subscribe on Spotify<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Virtual Church – Online Church Only?What is wrong with doing or having church online? Isn’t virtual church attendance still being present and active with the body of Christ? Why is it so essential that churches meet face-to-face?These are questions that Dr. Philpot presents to Dr. Caldwell on this week’s episode of the Straight Truth Podcast. Dr. Caldwell seeks to guide and instruct us biblically in our thinking about these questions. He explains what the Church is. Why meeting face-to-face is an act of obedience, not just essential, and why doing or having church online does not reflect church body life.Dr. Caldwell begins by telling us that the Church is an assembling of God’s people. It is the body of Christ gathering together for the purposes that God has set forth in His Word; it is what He has commanded. Therefore, the Church does this on the Lord’s Day, gathering to mutually encourage one another, sing songs of praise, study God’s Word and partake of the ordinances. This is church life that God has commanded for His people.Dr. Caldwell speaks of 1 Timothy 3:14 and 15, where Paul writes to Timothy so that people will know how to conduct themselves in the Lord's household. He tells us this instruction is absolutely unnecessary if there is no need to gather together. Paul speaks of things here that take place in the Church through the fellowship of God’s people. So through Timothy, Paul wants the people of God to know how to do these things. Next, Dr. Caldwell turns to Hebrews 10:24 and 25, where the people who belong to the Lord are explicitly commanded to gather together.Dr.
