- Why does Pastor Kenny record online messages in his house? Why not just live-stream the service?
- Why do you sometimes show your in-person worship music and sometimes show online lyric videos?
- Why do you share online communion sometimes? Isn’t an in-person service required to have communion?
You don’t need to be in a service to participate in communion. While it may seem strange to have communion in the privacy of your home, communion is something between you and God; not between you and your church. Its true purpose is to connect us with God, allow Him to search our hearts, give us the opportunity to examine our relationship with Him, and help us remember what Jesus accomplished on the cross. I can do that from my home, my car, a hospital bed… anywhere that I can take a piece of bread (or anything bread-like) and reflect on what his broken body meant and continues to mean, and anywhere I can take a cup of juice (or any liquid really) and reflect on what the new agreement between God and man — signed and sealed with his shed blood — meant 2,000 years ago and continues to mean to me today… I can take communion.
As to why we share communion once a month, it’s simply a means by which I can lead people in the process; people who might not remember otherwise, or who might not feel comfortable conducting it on their own, without the guidance of a pastor. Also keep in mind that many people who watch our videos are people from our congregation who are homebound for weeks or months at a time. They don’t have the opportunity to share in communion with other believers, and this helps them get a little bit of that.
- Have you considered making shorter videos?