WJ:Facebook Getting Involved in Religion, Signs Contract with Megachurch as Platform’s Director of ‘Global Faith Partnerships’.
Big Tech social media giant Facebook is partnering with religious organizations as part of what seems like its goal to make the platform a virtual home for religious communities.
According to a Sunday article in the New York Times by faith and politics reporter Elizabeth Dias, ahead of Hillsong Atlanta’s opening, developers working for Facebook regularly met with Pastor Sam Collier to explore ways through which — in Dias’ words — the platform can help churches “go further farther on Facebook.”
Then in June, according to the Times, the church put out a statement saying it was “partnering with Facebook,” and since then, started posting livestreams of church services exclusively on Facebook.
“They are teaching us, we are teaching them,” Collier told the Times. “Together we are discovering what the future of the church could be on Facebook.” Collier did not elaborate further in his conversation with the Times, saying he had signed a nondisclosure agreement with the Big Tech giant.
In recent years, the platform has been building partnerships with religious organizations of varying sizes, from tiny congregations to huge churches from denominations such as the Assemblies of God and Church of God in Christ. more here
Put yer hand on the computer and say Amen!
Sounds like a contract with the Devil!
Maybe choose a non-fascist platform.
Didn’t rome do something like this quite a while ago?
Babylon one world church is mention in Revelations. The church of Satan for sure. Thou are saved by herd immunity!!!
It’s coming folks. Headed by Joel Osteen merging with the Pope’s dopes.
No, no and hell no will I ever have anything to do with such an abomination. My trust is in God and not a church bought and paid for by Scmuckerberg or any other social media pissant trying to outdo God by basing it all on false doctrines, false gospel, false hopes etc. etc. What else is new? The Gospel is real, these people are fools believing that SChmuckerberg, Joel Osteen and other phony baloney religious con artists can offer them any salvation from their worldly troubles. Just send them 10 bucks or better yet 100 bucks or more and they’ll send you nothing but a pack of lies if you’re that gullible and stupid enough to believe their malarkey. MY God has never let me down, these assholes will guarandamteed.
Blasphemy!
F*** Zuck!
I can read the Book myself, don’t need a middleman.
I don’t know enough about Hillsong church, but if they are the producers of Hillsong music, my church has stopped using their music. I was told by the music director that they do not believe that Jesus is God’s son. If that is true, then they cannot claim to be a Christian church.
Jesus Christ’s sacrifice when he was killed on the cross was to redeem sinners from eternal damnation. That is only possible if he is who he claimed to be. The only way to redeem us is for the perfect to die in our place. If Jesus was just a man, he was not perfect.
Besides, if Jesus said he was divine and he is not, then not only is he a liar, but he is a horrid man and not a ‘good’ teacher as so many people claim.
C.S. Lewis in “Mere Christianity”: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
This would be for churches who are more like the world, than they are the bride of Christ.
Any Bible believing church would more than likely have their sermon eviscerated by “fact checkers”.
“You can not serve two masters”
I’m good with out having them getting in between myself and my relationship with G-d
What will they do if someone, who is banned on fakebook, participates in one of their congregations?
They ain’t really ‘cheek turners’ over there, from what I’ve seen
“Hillsong” why am I not surprised?
Claudia, google Carl Lentz, this disgraced pastor represents everything that is wrong with this heretic church. Lentz was the spiritual leader of the Hollywood elites, Justin Bieber was a big supporter. Oddly, so was Chris Pratt, he is smart enough to know better.
Lentz was a big phony just like Paula White.
I’m sure there are legitimate God inspired televangelists out there, I just can’t think of any.
If anyone is looking for some good youtube pastors, I can recommend 2, Mike Winger and Alisa Childers, both have a ton of good content broken up into bite-size digestible nuggets.
I’m old school.
I only recognize the original church, Catholic.
Yes, I know our Pope is a problem.
Zuckerberg’s influence is a larger problem.
Didn’t Jim Jones do something like this just before the application of the Cool-Aid? Though it will be closer to Heaven’s Gate. (whatever you do, don’t eat the pudding)
their new sacraments will be doses of dopamine from ‘thumbs up’
instead of saying ‘can I get an Amen?’ they’ll say ‘hit the like button’
NO
just don’t need it
Propping up false teachers.
One world government.
One world economy.
One world religion.
To be headed up under the incarnation of Satan as the greatest (for a season) peacemaker the world ever saw.
Even those who will not believe the Bible is God’s word and would spit in the eye of Christ if they could, can see it all forming as we watch.
Um. No.
My father got snookered back Bible thumping televangelists in the 1960s. They’re phonies and a dime a dozen. They speak enough truth to gain your trust.
^^bad English. Too lazy to fix it. You get my drift.
The Holy Spirit commented shortly thereafter, “We’re outta here.”
you’ll have to have the ‘mark of zuckerberg’ to get in
wouldn’t touch it with a stick
might poke it though
there might really be something in his name
let me guess- is his middle name adrian?
If this is true, someone needs to circumcize Zuckerberg with a machete
Run, run away!
What’s facebook’s cut of the tithe and who collects it?
PayPaul?
InVainMo?
Forbidden ApplePay?
Papal infallibility? Yeah, right!
Reminds me of Lucas first film, “THX 1138”, where churches have become public kiosks you can confess to.
“Blessings of the State; blessings of the masses” it said.
God has been edited out.
Science fiction is just too damned prescient too often.