{"id":20089,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2003\/01\/01\/multi-media-worship-becoming-norm\/"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:27:14","slug":"multi-media-worship-becoming-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/multi-media-worship-becoming-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Media Worship Becoming Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/53770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/53770.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/53770.jpg?resize=82,92 82w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"\" class=\"\" align=\"@align\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/content\/img\/page\/9815a_lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/span>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><p><strong>O<\/strong>ne Sunday you realize your overhead projector is a dinosaur&#8212;like a Hammond organ. The video projector is the norm now; video in worship is no longer a megachurch phenomenon. More than 6 in 10 churches own a video projection system, and 4 in 10 report using video projection in their worship services each week. One-fourth of all sanctuaries are equipped with permanently mounted video projectors. In addition, 43 percent own presentation software, making worship increasingly high tech.<\/p><p><em class=\"citation\">Leadership<\/em>&#8216;s sister publication <em class=\"citation\">Your Church<\/em> surveyed 285 churches and found that churches of all sizes are tech conscious. Churches with larger budgets are much more likely to own video equipment. Two-thirds of churches with budgets above $250,000 own a portable projector. Almost as many (61%) of churches with budgets above $500,000 have a mounted projector in the sanctuary.<\/p><p>The video wall is the newest accessory. Larger churches were more likely to make the investment. Video walls had the highest ratio of use of the three video systems.<\/p><p class=\"is-style-article-source\">With reporting by John C. LaRue, Jr.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead1\">PowerPoint Counterpoint: Use With Caution<\/h2><p>About PowerPoint-based outlines for your sermon: That kind of stuff just comes off as unreal. Life is not fill-in-the-blank. God is not fill-in-the-blank. A more productive use of technology for sermons is to use a single projected image as a backdrop while you preach without ever making reference to it. For instance, if your text is on the birth of Jesus, use an image of a newborn with all the gunk and blood and stuff. That&#8217;s real.<\/p><p class=\"is-style-article-source\">Chad Hall, pastor and writer on postmodernism,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-wave.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"source\" rel=\"noopener\">www.next-wave.org<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-group aligncenter is-style-sidebar has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>We wanted to draw attention to a special event, but with so many announcements and flyers in the bulletin, we thought the message might get lost. So we bought a rubber stamp and a stack of Post-Its. The stamp read: &#8220;Honey, have we signed up for the Couple&#8217;s Retreat yet?&#8221;  It included a phone number. We stamped and stuck the notes inside the bulletins and newsletters. The retreat quickly filled to capacity.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t get a thick Sunday bulletin at Saddleback Community Church anymore. The California megachurch has dropped its newsletter, overflowing with inserts, in favor of an e-mail version, the &#8220;Saddleback Slice.&#8221; Sunday worshipers receive only a sermon outline and basic info about the church. The &#8220;Slice&#8221; will be e-mailed on Thursdays and &#8220;we&#8217;ll save a ton of paper,&#8221; the staff says.<\/p>\n<p>A few print copies will be available for worship attenders without e-mail access.<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead1\">ideas that work<\/h2><br><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">&#8226; Post-It Notes make announcements stick.<\/h2><br><p class=\"is-style-article-bio\">&#8212;Randy Martin<br>Springfield, Missouri<\/p><br><br><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">&#8226; Saddleback cancels print newsletter; offers e-mail only.<\/h2><br><p class=\"is-style-article-source\">&#8212;from Rick Warren&#8217;s Ministry Toolbox<\/p><br><br><\/p>\n\n<\/div><p class=\"is-style-article-copyright\">Copyright &copy; 2003 by the author or Christianity Today\/<em class=\"citation\">Leadership<\/em> Journal.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/help\/permissionsprivacy\/permissions.html#answer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"copyright\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for reprint information on <em class=\"citation\">Leadership<\/em> Journal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Sunday you realize your overhead projector is a dinosaur&#8212;like a Hammond organ. 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One-fourth <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/multi-media-worship-becoming-norm\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_books":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[154],"tax_ctp_field_guide_subcategory":[],"tax_ctp_field_guides":[],"tax_ctp_format":[131],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[683,156,687],"tax_ctp_tags":[5129,5190,5305],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-20089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tax_publications-2003-leadership-journal","tax_publications-leadership-journal","tax_publications-winter_2003-leadership-journal","tax_ctp_tags-technology","tax_ctp_tags-trends","tax_ctp_tags-worship"],"acf":{"scripture_references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Multi-Media Worship Becoming Norm - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Click here One Sunday you realize your overhead projector is a dinosaur&#8212;like a Hammond organ. 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