“O Come All Ye Faithful?” by Denise Winterman

Denise Winterman, in her article “O Come All Ye Faithful?” speaks of the growing trend in the United Kingdom (also a growing trend in the United States) of people refraining from church attendance and pursuing alternative forms of “religious worship” whether that take place in their own individualized worship experience or in the chat room of an internet church. This trend illustrates the post-Christianization and post-modernization of so called Christian worship and fellowship thus denying Luke’s ecclesiastical comment concerning not only the early Church’s worship of the triune God but also their devotion to the apostle’s teaching, communal fellowship, to the breaking bread, and to prayer (Acts 2:42). This dynamic cannot truly take place with me, myself, and I or on some sort of superficial and futile “Internet Church” website.