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Facebook and other social media tools have changed the way people communicate, work, find each other and fall in love.
What about Church Life?
What Constitutes Religious Experience?
Social networks offered “a great opportunity,” but ”they can never replace the importance of people being together physically in the service of worship”-Pope Benedict XVI
Religion and spirituality are being reduced to bytes and instant messages – mere blips on a screen – and that something crucial to faith, like a concrete sense of community and the experiential aspect of religious practice, is being lost.
"In the search for personal spiritual fulfillment," says Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland , "nothing can replace the joy and lasting value of sharing one's faith journey in person with another human being."
How Social Network Make Religious Experience better?
Jesus Daily reminds me every day that I am not alone
“There are so many people battling cancer, fighting to keep their marriages together, struggling to restore relationships with their children,” he said. “There are people out of work, at the end of the line and I just want the Jesus Daily to be a central place where they find encouragement, no matter what battle they are fighting.”
Synagogue had reached thousands of people around the world and significantly expanded the number of people participating in Shabbat services on Friday evenings. They offer readings and services via live videos on Facebook, allowing Jews from all over the world to join in prayer and in conversation on Facebook, Twitter or Livestream.