Technology and worship
Since when has worship become so dependent on technology?
Luke and I recently mounted a new widescreen video projector in the church sanctuary. As with anything “do-it-yourself” project, there were some minor glitches. For example we had to adjust the mounted projector to fill the screen, we had to do some signal checks from different computers and finally we had to change the screen resolution from 800 x 600 to 1280 x 768 dpi. Since Luke is a tech savvy guy I figured things would be fairly straightforward.
They weren’t.
Something went loopy with our song projection software. We tried to recover the song database last night. We gave up at 11:15pm without a resolution.
I came home, frustrated and annoyed, wondering when church worship became so dependent on technology. Does technology enhance or detract from our God directed worship? Is what we call “Sunday morning worship” is better defined as a Christianized theatre production? Do we gather primarily to proclaim the goodness and sovereignty of God, through Jesus, or are we more interested in being satisfied that the “Sunday morning show” was worth the hour and fifteen minutes we spent at church?
For myself, I’m not sure I can answer that question yet. I’d welcome your thoughts from wherever you sit.
