Although you can have ''friendly association'' online, so much of what defines Christian fellowship is participation. Early church members ate together and that can't be done online. Fellowship is more about personal relationships with other believers and those types of relationships aren't easy online. There are some aspects of Christian fellowship that can only occur face to face.

A big problem with the virtual church is getting out in the community and being a light for Christ. As a virtual church people probably don't live anywhere near each other which makes it difficult to get together and being a light together. Reaching out to different types of people like the poor or homeless will be difficult because they probably don't have access to the virtual church.

In the virtual church you can logo out or walk away whenever you want while as in real life it is less likely that you are going to just get up and leave church. Being ''forced'' to go through the discomfort of being with people and hearing things you don't want to hear is a learning process and will help you to learn how to handle difficult situations that you don't want to. A real life Christian community is where you learn to grow and mature as a Christian.