06.06.08
Videos in Church???
For those of you who are interested in matters of ecclesiology (i.e. the Doctrine of the Church) and a biblical understanding of corporate life, I cannot recommend highly enough the work of Mark Dever and friends over at 9 Marks ministries. He recently posted an interesting piece regarding whether or not videos should be used in church. Here is his conclusion:
“In conclusion, I am not suggesting using video on Sun AM is necessarily sinful; but I am suggesting that it must normally (or always?) be imprudent. We are trying to build a word-centered counter-culture in a vision-addicted age. Will it really help the people to concentrate on the words of Scripture, or my words of explanation and exhortation by getting them to engage with a video just a few moments before? Immediate impact doesn’t always lead to lasting awe. In fact, it can work against it.”
You can read the whole thing here http://blog.9marks.org/2008/06/when-seeing-doe.html