VanGillMan
Puritan Board Freshman
Curious what people's thoughts are about videos being used on Sunday morning during the worship service? I admit our church has used them in the past, primarily for announcements from outside agenices, occaisionally to promote some activity going on in the church, and I never thoughts too much about it.
More recently however they have used videos for our regular announcements and welcome in place of a Pastor or Elder doing this function. My initial thought was that it was ridiculous to 'welcome' someone via video, you need a real person doing the welcoming. But this has also caused me to think a lot more about the theology of the technologies we use on a Sunday morning. Especially the videos. Is there a place for videos being shown on a Sunday morning?
Personally I have never liked them, but I have not thought this through Biblically and am trying to bring scripture to bear on this subject in my own mind. Input would be appreciated. My initial thoughts went to 3 John 14- face to face communication is much preferred. When I spoked to one of our Pastor's about this I was given reasons which seemed to all be pragmatic in nature and not biblical-theological.
Our church's Sunday worship consists of full band with all instruments, orchestra, choir and we sing more modern worship songs together with hymns and choruses.
More recently however they have used videos for our regular announcements and welcome in place of a Pastor or Elder doing this function. My initial thought was that it was ridiculous to 'welcome' someone via video, you need a real person doing the welcoming. But this has also caused me to think a lot more about the theology of the technologies we use on a Sunday morning. Especially the videos. Is there a place for videos being shown on a Sunday morning?
Personally I have never liked them, but I have not thought this through Biblically and am trying to bring scripture to bear on this subject in my own mind. Input would be appreciated. My initial thoughts went to 3 John 14- face to face communication is much preferred. When I spoked to one of our Pastor's about this I was given reasons which seemed to all be pragmatic in nature and not biblical-theological.
Our church's Sunday worship consists of full band with all instruments, orchestra, choir and we sing more modern worship songs together with hymns and choruses.