We’ve talked about using Twitter during sermons, before, but we’ve never seen technology used from the pulpit like this before.
Liquid Church has pushed the envelop and has set a new standard in interactive Church media.
I am seriously impressed.
Liquid Church’s Live Audience Polling
From the Liquid Church press release:
“Tim Lucas, Lead Pastor of Liquid Church, will lead live polling via text messaging at all locations where Liquid Church holds worship services in New Jersey. With the Presidential elections approaching, many individuals including the nearly 2,500 evangelical Christian attendees of the church, must decide how they are to engage in politics of the public square. The 4-week series of Sunday services this September will be focused on moving beyond the polarizing political rhetoric found in today’s news media.”
With one Sunday down and three to go, Liquid Church has put together one serious platter of awesome.
There promo video is hawt, too:
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During the service, Pastor Tim Lucas will ask the congregation to use their cell phones to text their vote on various questions being presented week by week. If that wasn’t cool enough, the tallied results will be displayed on screens–wait for it–in real-time.
Impressive.
If you were ever going to launch something this amazing, kicking it off surrounding such huge issues and attention was a good move.
Can you imagine using this kind of tech every so often? It might not be the best thing to do on a regular basis, but when you could hook it into your message, it really adds another dimension.
Maybe if we’re lucky, we’ll get to talk with Liquid Church about how they pulled this off, so other churches can do this kind of thing.
Hat’s off to Liquid Church. From the creative to the IT, it looks like they really nailed this.
Job well done.
[via Liquid Church]
Chandos says
At our church, we use polleverywhere.com for similar results. It’s all live and you can set up multiple choice or open answer questions. Pretty neat. It’s not super-flashy to look at, but it does offer some level of customization, so with a graphic designer in tow, it can look pretty slick.
Eric Dye says
Cool! We’ll have to check it out!