Interactive Preaching?
{ Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008
by alan
}
One of my big problems with the 'power' of the pulpit, is the preaching not actually engaging the moment. And while some might argue the moment is a spiritual one, I think even the preaching one should be a shared experience.
The way to this has always been the Q&A, or discussion post-sermonic discharge. Or even the back and forth of a workshop talk.
But Google has a new app out there, for the web-savvy congregation. Google Moderator, based on a need found in Google Tech Talks to aggregate questions from distributed talks. Could it be used for the preaching moment? Maybe even to keep a fading audience from falling asleep? (as opposed to one CNET author's musing whether participants would be too distracted from listening!)
In order for this to work though, we'd have to open up the sanctuary to wireless and, eek, laptops. Or maybe all we need is access for Ipod's and other mobile devices. The kids all have them anyway.
I tried to test out the app... but my lack of having a cell and SMS service means I can't get in to GoogleApps. Lame. I should just go back to reading books.
2 Response to "Interactive Preaching?"
i read from a blog comment that the commenter's church actually has twitter running in the background during the service
Hey, been a while! Care to post back the post that has this blog comment?
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