You can use the internet to stay connected with old friends from high school or even your neighbor across the street. You can even deepen your relationship with other believers from your church. But could online relationships replace the need for the face-to-face community within the church?
Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith, explains why "virtual community" is not able to serve completely as the kind of community that the church must be.
[Note: He later comments on Second Life, which is a website where you can create a digital alter ego and live a simulated "life."]
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