Church, Faith, Current Events, VR, VRChurch, Web 3.0 Stuart McPherson Church, Faith, Current Events, VR, VRChurch, Web 3.0 Stuart McPherson

3 Reasons Why the Church Needs to Be in Virtual Reality

Currently, there are roughly 20 active churches in Virtual Reality, the majority of them running their services in platforms like VR Chat, Bigscreen, RecRoom, Spatial.io and Horizon Worlds. That’s 20 churches trying to plunder hell and populate heaven by reaching the 171 million people.

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Faith, Bible, parenting , Fatherhood Stuart McPherson Faith, Bible, parenting , Fatherhood Stuart McPherson

God’s Unfailing Love On Display Through My Failures

No matter how your story reads. No matter your rebellion, God loves you. His love is unfailing. He desperately desires a relationship with you. Maybe your dad wasn’t around growing up, or maybe your dad wasn’t the greatest to you, what I hope you learn from my own failures is this, at the end of the day, God is the standard that every dad is to live up to. Don’t let the faults of an earthly dad deceive you from the truth of who God is. He is not wrathful, and He is not unfair in His discipline. He is for you and wants the best for you. You can never do anything that causes God to love you any less. Know that. Believe that. Live in that.

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Faith, Current Events, Church, Metachurch, Web 3.0, VRChurch Stuart McPherson Faith, Current Events, Church, Metachurch, Web 3.0, VRChurch Stuart McPherson

Turning Doubt into Belief: The Metaverse Church

So here I am, a Virtual Reality Church doubter, now spear heading a Virtual Reality Church (who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?). A couple of weeks into being a Virtual Reality pastor, one of our IRL (in real life) church members asked me what I enjoyed most about doing church in VR. I hadn’t really put much thought to that at this point, but I loved his question. I thought about it for a second, and I told him, “I get the opportunity to be an international missionary all from the basement of my house.”

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Faith, Current Events, Unity Stuart McPherson Faith, Current Events, Unity Stuart McPherson

"US & THEM"

Social media and news stations are saturated with images of unrest, protest, and violence. Destruction and death seem to top the headlines of every post. And in every social media feed: hate speech, heated arguments, and (here’s that word again) division.

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