Comments on: You can spend tons on fancy equipment, but if you’ve got nothing to say …

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:19:11 +0000

I was just consulting with a team from a neighboring city about this exact thing. They brought with them there own tech heads who wanted to make sure that the picture of thier new building included the latest gizmo and thingamejig that they had obviously been obsessing over. After re-aligning their thinking behind the worship leader and what the vision was for what was going to be said/sung/offered up to God from the stage, the talk of gizmos seemed a little pointless. Tech is a tool – nothing more.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:55:24 +0000

i’ve got nothing to say.

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links of the week (3.19.10 edition) « blindly pursuing life — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:38:17 +0000

[...] Content is what matters. After all, if you have every kind of equipment yet nothing to say, it is all for not. Great post on one of my favorite blogs. [...]

By: Sherry Hight

Sherry Hight — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:38:43 +0000

Hey Los,

Too ironic, I work at Purdue Univ. and Jason Fried is speaking to our Entrepreneurship Classon Tuesday, the 23rd.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:04:08 +0000

Has anyone done a study on the relation between state of the art tools in church and the number of transformed lives that result?

By: Rob Rash

Rob Rash — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:56:34 +0000

People know a fake when they see one. It all comes down to the heart, the soul. I’ve seen God in some of the most remote places that had absolutely nothing and I’ve missed God in some of the most funded, done up places to.

It’s the old cliche’, ‘people don’t care what you know until they know that you care.’ It fits.

By: Ronni

Ronni — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:48:23 +0000

AMEN!!!!!

By: Eric Frisch

Eric Frisch — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:19:01 +0000

I think this is really important for the church, especially smaller churches. I see a real trend towards “needing” certain sound gear, certain lights, even a certain caliber of musician to be effective because that’s how some other, much larger church is doing it. They don’t see any point in trying unless/until they’ve acquired those things. In reality though, God isn’t going to give us a message to spread and then deny us the tools to spread it. The Word connects with a lot of different kinds of people on a lot of different levels in a lot of different ways. Fancy new equipment is something we should look at when our ministries are expanding too much to be effective with what we’ve got, rather than as the vehicle for that growth and effectiveness.

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:50:46 +0000

I just read a similar idea in Hugh McLeod’s Book “How to be Creative”.

He kicked my tail when he was talking about artists can create without fancy tools. Hobbyist spend a ton of money to get the same result.

In regard to the church, sometimes the bells and whistles are necessary, like baby food and as Christian’s grow, so should their experiences (with less) and a more solid diet…

By: Colston

Colston — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:54:50 +0000

I think for me the biggest thing is that all the bells and whistles are nice but its not what keeps people in the church… Transformed lives, that is what will attract and keep people in the church.
Again, all the bells and whistles are nice and at times helpful but without transformation taking place its nothing but clanging cymbals….
When people see a transformed life it gives them HOPE that their life can be transformed too!
There is no hope found in the bells and whistles…