Please Twitter in Church?

A recent article on CNN discusses a pastor's encouragement to Twitter during church services.

John Voelz, a pastor from Michigan is looking for ways to make his church services more creative and interesting for his congregation. Not only does he encourage Twitter, they actually educate their congreaton on how to use Twitter. For two weeks, they asked the congregation to bring their laptops and cell phones to a training session where they showed them how to blog.

This is a very unorthodox approach to getting congregates more involved and interested in church. Most likely, many would argue that although technology is growing more intertwined with daily life, Sunday morning mass may not be the place for it just yet.

However, this is not the only church service that regularly integrates Twitter into mass. In Seattle, New York City, and Charlotte, pastors have the same idea. These pastors claim that it is necessary to modernize church services, to allow people to remain close to God in these changing times. "Twitter Sundays" are becoming more popular throughout the nation. Pastors feel that this is an undeniably useful tool to create a greater sense of a unified community.

Some things that are said on these microblogs:

"had awesome music today and yes i am twittering in church."
"nothing u do 4 the lord is in vain."
"I have a hard time recognizing God in the middle of everything."


I can only say that I am surprised. Yet to be quite honest, I really shouldn't be. Technology and Internet tools are the way of the future. If churches want to modernize along with it, it is a fun creative way of allowing church members to become more active, unifying them by this social tool.