Dr. Elmer Towns is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and scholarly works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar lecturer, and dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed over 20 resource packets for leadership education. He began teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri, for three years and was not satisfied with his textbooks so he began writing his own (he has published over 100 books listed in the Library of Congress, 7 listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List; several becoming accepted as college textbooks. He is also the 1995 recipient of the coveted Gold Medallion Award awarded by the Christian Booksellers Association for writing the Book of the Year, i.e., The Names of the Holy Spirit.
He is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.
Online Churches
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2940149680085
- Publisher: Liberty University Press
- Publication date: 07/11/2014
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
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Can online churches fulfill the same role as physical churches? Innovative ministry leaders Elmer Towns and Todd Mullins tackle this controversial question in their book “Online Churches.”
Towns and Mullins explore what it takes to build a viable online church, examining the elements necessary to create a faith community in a virtual neighborhood. Is there a biblical justification for online churches? How should they function? How can sacraments such as baptism and communion be administered? The authors explore the most common objections to virtual fellowship and investigate firsthand how some of the biggest online churches in the world create and maintain authentic Christian community. What they discover is that online churches are a valid option for today’s believer.
Online churches examined in the book include: Glory of Zion International Ministries (based in Texas), Christ Fellowship (based in Florida), and Yoido Full Gospel Church (based in South Korea).
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