Is it okay to tweet or use other forms of social media during the sermon?
Eric Dye, Jeremy Smith and Phil Schneider talk about the implications of using social media during church from a personal perspective as well as how it might be perceived by those outside of the church.
What do you think?
Episode Three
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When I first thought about this topic, I figured everyone would be all for it and that this topic might fall flat on its face. However, I was surprised to find that’s not exactly what our conclusion was. In fact, we all tend to lean towards not using social media during the sermon (I keep going back and forth on the issue), unless there is a concerted effort to do so.
Here’s some more food for thought:
- What I Learned About Live Tweeting During Church
- How ‘Liquid Church’ Is Using Technology from the Pulpit
- Should You Tweet During Sermons?
- Don’t Tweet During the Sermon?
- Study Finds People Tweet More About Church than Beer
We would love to hear what you think about this question.
Should you tweet during church?
Five Questions
You’ve heard him on the podcast for the past few episodes, so we decided it was high time we had Five Questions with ChurchMag author Jeremy Smith.
Link Love
I think it’s a little funny that there are more links related to the topic than the “Link Love” portion of the podcast post.
- A Tweet by John Saddington
- PSA: If you’re not a developer, don’t install developer betas on your iPhone by Chris Rawson
- Tech Wreck Tuesday #3: Awkward A Cappella by Phil Schneider
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Paul Clifford (@PaulAlanClif) says
I live-tweet our services as an evangelistic tool AND I don’t necessarily read RTs and DMs during church. For me, live-tweeting is about taking notes and sharing them with people.
Too often, people use any distraction as an excuse to “poo poo” technology, but “playing tic-tac-toe with a kid next to me” is as much a distraction (if not more b/c you’re distracting the kid) than reading twitter, so the problem is the person, not the tech.
Then again, as the guy who literally wrote the book on Twitter for churches, you might expect that I’m in favor tweeting in church.
Paul
Eric Dye says
True story. 🙂