Modern BelieverCulture Changes. God Doesn't.

As a geek, this article really speaks to me. The Church is increasingly lagging when it comes to technology. Instead of showing others how to use new technology to reach people, we’re taking our sweet time, only adopting something when people start moving to something else (how many of you are still showing VHS instead of DVD).

There I was at the Pantheon. The building originally dedicated to all gods by the Romans and later used as a church. It holds the record for the largest unreinforced concrete dome. It exactly as high as it is wide, seemingly no simple feat at that time. Awesome.

I could go on and on, but here’s the point: in antiquity it was the church that was the “backbone of technological innovation,” to apply the words of Klaas Verbeken to a different subject. New technologies and systems were developed so that they could be used to glorify God.

And here we are all those years later. And who is one of the greatest users and innovators of all things techie? The porn industry. Tink betamax vs. vhs, blueray vs. hd-dvd, etc.

What a bummer. It’s as if the devil has stolen the playbook of the early church and has caught on to its effectiveness.

Oh, you’re still reading? Go find a youth pastor and ask him what the kids are into these days. Put the priority on incorporating that yesterday.