I think of myself as rather progressive. I mean around my town they think I am a radical liberal. I think I am a moderate Christian, but nevertheless, I was surprised by my own reaction. I have no problem with the projection of hymn words up on the wall in worship. I have seen organists take a computer onto the console and have the music scrolled for them to play on the computer. It saves carrying all those books. I am one who scripts all my public presentations. I am trying more and more to get free from just reading the script, but I have almost nothing in my leading of public gatherings unscripted. So I have no problem with people having their message written down.
But when the speaker carried his Apple Laptop into the podium, opened up and began to read his comments from his computer screen, something in me was displeased. I have no logic for it. I realize that it is totally inconsistent, but still something in me was not happy with that arrangement. You can tell me that most public speakers have computer tell a prompters at conventions and meetings. And I do not know what the difference for me is. But to have his head half hidden behind an Apple laptop just did not rub me the right way.
There is a part of me that hates being one of those who always opposes the new thing. And I cannot tell you what my problem with a speaker reading from his computer instead of a typed page, but I did not like it.
So we are all walking contradictions; partly truth and partly fiction. And I just saw myself in pieces again.
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Shouldn't we be more concerned with the content of a message than the tools utilized to deliver it?
Jonathan Edwards read his sermons word for word from a previously prepared manuscript. Many people who heard those sermons repented & came to faith in Christ. It was the content (empowered by the Holy Spirit) that mattered more than the tools of presentation.
I affirmed that I was like Jonathan Edwards and wrote all of my presentations out and used the manuscript each week. So I agree with you that content is more important that medium. That is exactly why I asked the question of why it bothered me that the speaker used his computer.
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