The Church has accepted the secular state’s version of what is wrong with the world; namely, that humanity is irretrievably infected with a disease, the variants of which will be with us forever. As a result, the Church has enacted all the secular penitentiary rules and regulations designed to exorcize or at least keep at bay the disease that now defines man’s universal condition.

Meanwhile, the old doctrine of original sin and the means of grace by which the Church has dealt with the soul and its struggle with sin have either been radically changed, done away with altogether or have disappeared into the cybersphere, where community is illusory.

The Church has, by and large, forsaken the field of reality, trading real community and real worship for illusion. It is now becoming the equivalent of a hologram, with its army as effectual as computer generated soldiers fighting against computer generated orcs. Yes, the gospel message can go forth on the internet. But the danger is that church leaders become cyber influencers rather than pastors caring for real sheep.

Further, the Church does not interface with the heavenlies or the reality of angels and the community of the saints by embracing cyberspace while deserting real worship in a real physical space. Cyberspace is not a bridge to Heaven.

The Church must return to earth and to real community, fighting the world, the flesh and the Devil on the ground rather than in the cyber sphere, which does not participate in the heavenly realities as it is presently controlled by those completely hostile to the church and is a devilish substitute for the biblical, heavenly realities.

Churches must reject the secularist rituals and doctrines being forced on it and return to orthodox worship, otherwise its effectiveness will continue to be diminished and the sheep will continue to starve.