Are you longing for fellowship with other like-minded believers? In this interview, John Truitt of Kentucky shares how he uses video conferencing to have interactive and encouraging virtual fellowships. Whether you want to join in with what he does or you want to start your own, this conversation is loaded with helpful guidance on how to succeed.
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- Get in touch with Truitt at jtruitt@kalleo.net
- Here’s a link to Truitt’s facebook
- See the Christian Virtual Fellowship YouTube channel
- More information about the 20s and 30s Apologetics Conference (June 8-10)
- Listen to more Restitutio interviews here
- Intro music: Jazzy Frenchy by bensound.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Thanks very much for the information. God bless your day.
Glad this system is working for some people! On another note, I’m digging the new intro music to the podcast.
Interesting to see this growing. I didn’t expect to see such a decent size(meaning, good for dialogue but not too large) virtual fellowship group. We may have to check this out to get some others to speak with and gain more connections since we haven’t really had anyone in a while around to speak with about the Bible.
Thanks for sharing!
I have always wanted to understand what a virtual video fellowship is.l would like to stay in the Body of Christ if possible.
Dear Sean,
Thanks to you and your guest for this interesting and timely episode.
In many ways I feel like I’ve been a virtual member of you and your fathers church for many years but about 2 months ago I started a virtual fellowship, my wife and I live in an area where there is no fellowship with like minded believers and two of our friends live in different states across the country and time zones who are also on their own. They responded warmly to the suggestion and so far our time together online has been very rewarding and is a blessing.
Before we started I tested out various software to make sure it worked first we tried Skype, but for one member it never worked, we then tried Google hangouts which at first seemed to work and its what we started with, but it was never really reliable, we then tried Facebook video chat which has been for the most part reliable.
Your guest mentioned using Zoom, which I use at work and is a very reliable piece of software which we will be looking into for home use.
I understand what your guest says about singing, the timing is never in sync, but as a group we have decided that singing is an important part of fellowship and something we want to incorporate. I can only offer this suggestion that is when your singing concentrate on your own singing, so you don’t get too distracted by everyone else. I sometimes loose it and start laughing but that’s ok. Over the years I have played in a couple of bands and sometimes as a musician that’s what I had to do, ie focus on what you’re doing.
One thing I have noticed as a side effect of our online fellowship is that we talk a lot more on the phone during the week so all in all this has had a positive effect all round.
God Bless
John
For isolated Christians, of which there are many throughout the world, this is a means of much needed fellowship for which we are very grateful (Heb 10:24,25).
Do you think it would be beneficial for those who lead these groups to set out a statement of beliefs?
We are aware too that among the Unitarian elders/pastors there are differences on some major doctrines, eg the rapture, baptism, once saved always saved, which is an area of concern, I think. Of course we can all have some differences, but would you agree that unity on major doctrines is important, and so how can we deal with this situation when searching for truth after leaving false religion? (1 Cor 1:10)