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Online church seems to be the logical extension of models we have already adopted.

But more importantly, I think the whole conversation has reinforced for me that evangelicals are people who love fads.  Church growth, seeker sensitive, emerging…and now we’re on to ‘online church.’  We love getting all worked up, talking a lot about it, and then we all eventually move on and keep doing our own thing.

Of course, that doesn’t mean such fads don’t have any impact.  The center gets pulled in various directions as the people on the fringe’s make their case.  Case in point:  video sermons are now the center, while 5 years ago they were the fringe. But we are suckers for the next cool way of ‘doing church,’ a treadmill that is difficult to keep pace with.

- Matthew Lee Anderson (On Online Church and Evangelicals being “People of the Fad”)