In these waning pandemic days in America, many churches are keeping an online worship option going even as they reopen sanctuaries. All good.
But Zoom worship is already drawing a median age similar to what we had in the building pre-Covid. Most young adults are no more drawn to a Zoom church experience than they were to the services we had inside. In both cases, a particular paradigm of gathering easily gets conflated with what it means to be active in a church.