Thumb Wars: Is sending text messages and Tweeting in Church sacrilegious? (350 hits)
Remember when passing notes in church was borderline sacrilege? I mean, to hear parents of a generation ago, scribbling and swapping notes during the sermon was almost an affront to the Almighty—sort of like interrupting the President's State of the Union address or something.
Today, of course, people write in church all the time—taking notes during the sermon is totally acceptable, and increasingly the electronic version of passing notes, texting or Twittering, is also commonplace in church services. But not everyone is applauding this development.
In Thumb Wars, Tyler Charles highlights the key issues. Can instant messaging and Twitter enhance worship, or just interrupt it?
One would be hard-pressed to go an entire day without bumping into someone (sometimes literally) with their phone out and their thumbs punching buttons.It used to be limited to teenagers at the mall, but now text messaging is commonplace, as is its sister technology, Twitter. And for many churches, this is great news because these technologies provide opportunities to foster community—even during worship....
