It always surprises me how quickly an idea can go from introduction to expectation, from mere inquiry to accepted standard. And once an idea has become mainstream in that way, it is difficult to revisit and evaluate it.
One of these is the idea that churches should livestream their worship services. What was rare in the days before the pandemic became almost universal during it as circumstances proved to be a kind of technological accelerant. Yet with those days now far behind us, the livestreams continue. I don’t know the percentages, but I’d say a church is now more likely to have a stream than not. It has somehow become almost intuitive to churches that they ought to stream their Sunday morning services. The video ministry has taken its place beside the children’s ministry, women’s ministry, men’s ministry, and all the other ministries a church is expected to have.
I’m sure it made sense for churches to quickly pivot to streaming in those early days of uncertainty. It made sense for churches to keep the streams going during days when meeting together was difficult or forbidden and perhaps also during the days when
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