So look at this video and tell me. What's the implication of this technology for the church, for worship.
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What's the implication of this technology for the church, for worship?
Interesting...
For the Church/worship, drive thru at 11 AM, and take home a flexible video of the early morning service? - or have it delivered by the paper boy to then be 'read' with the Sunday paper?
Much of the implications are possible now (albeit slower and less tech-glamorous than flex-video) in the form of the internet. Video/Audio forms of various services from other Churches are on line. Television has been rendering services since I the time I was my parents walking and dispatched ‘remote control’ for a black & white analog TV. Written word versions have been posted online for awhile (google sermon and a given topic…). St. Andrew could create and publish Sunday sermons via the internet – and these could be viewed by those not able to attend on a given weekend. Flex-video could allow the sermon to be delivered to those without internet accessibility (but in that case, the delivered technology would be out pacing the end users at-home technology, and it would take some time for the cost point to come below the threshold of internet access to begin with).
What is missing in the post WIFI/PDA/tweeter delivery mechanism era is all that is gained from being at Church. I cannot envision technology ever overcoming the in-person experience (can video ‘motion’ really capture the ‘emotion’?). Is it that technology is providing (‘delivering’) another reason to not attend Church (in-person)? Either I missed the point of the BLOG, or I offer - resist the urge of emergent technology.
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