Ministry In The Metaverse
With the evolving of technology and the new generation who are naturally inclined to it, the means of reaching the lost must change.
The Z generation is the most unchurched people group. However, data has shown that they would enter the world of metaverse anytime. The church in general has been known to be slow in creative thinking because we think 'conservative' instead of 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Everything that the world or the New Age uses is discarded by the church as demonic or dangerous.
We almost forgot that God is always the original Creator. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠.
In this whatever-de-mic, it has changed the way people think, work, live and meet. Physical buildings are no longer as relevant. I believe that metaverse will be an essential platform to reach the unreached, which includes the next generation.
Having said that, effective discipleship, IMHO, still needs to take place in natural, real life situations. Because discipleship is more caught, than taught. It is learnt by modeling.
Since a physical church service or physical church cellgroup meeting cannot truly impart discipleship, Metaverse will replace their purpose in time to come.
We can choose to wait and see, or we can choose to grow and go into the first wave to reach the next generation.
“Going online is one of the best ways to reach people in countries that have traditionally been closed to the gospel.” - Souza
“As online communities grow into equipping communities, they are finding a ready audience eager to have spiritual conversations.” - Jate Earhart
“We’d be hard-pressed to find a higher concentration of unchurched or dechurched people from the 18 to 35 demographic than we can find in the metaverse.” - D.J. Soto
Read more in the link below:
https://outreachmagazine.com/features/leadership/69751-ministry-in-the-metaverse.html
Also check out the pioneer of Metaverse Church by D.J. Soto
https://www.vrchurch.org/
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