Companions,
So... Time Magazine ran an article today online about how Twitter is being used in worship...
George Bullard had a Facebook post about that earlier today (May 3)... and has gotten several comments there.
We've had some fairly lively conversation about it in the Order of Saint Luke CyberChapter (and no, it's not dominated by censorious tech-haters!)...
So I thought this could be a good place for some more conversation. I'll post the link to the twibe, too.
So... read the article
HERE
and discuss amongst yourselves...
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
4 comments:
Yeah, I twitter during worship. Even though my wife gives me the look.
Aaron,
I'm sure lots of folks do.
What the article talks about is having lots of people intentionally use Twitter during worship and posting the resultant "live-stream" on a screen in the worship space as this happens...
Peace,
Taylor
I would think that adding a giant screen to display tweets during a worship service would be a terrible distraction. I can concentrate on singing hymns and listening to the sermon or I can pay attention to the tweet screen (or whatever it would be called) but I can't do both and I seriously question how many people could actually do both. I would also think that including twitter as a part of the service would tend to drive away those who can't afford the electronic toys needed to generate the tweets. It would unintentionally send the message that you can't fully participate in worship if you aren't tweeting. I would probably leave my current church if we installed a tweet screen.
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