Our congregation at College Hill has been engaged in a conversation in recent months about Intelligibility. Specifically, we have been talking about our current sound system and the need to update and upgrade our system in the sanctuary to improve intelligibility.
Intelligibility is important to the spoken Word. Intelligibility impacts our worship and impacts how lives can be reached. You may say that a sound system may or may not make that much of an impact, but think about what is lost if you can't hear or understand.
So often, the Word talks about how people came to faith by hearing. Hearing that Jesus was performing signs, people came. Scriptures are fulfilled in hearing. A centurion was saved because he heard of Jesus. All those things inspire me to want to provide the best atmosphere in which the Word is spoken and proclaimed.
On Wednesday, our Church Council will be acting upon a recommendation of our task force. We have been working with a local company that works predominantly with churches. Please pray for us. Please pray that College Hill be an instrument of God's Word.
Paul said, "So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the Word of Christ." Romans 10:17.
After that - the pressure will be on. I won't be able to blame the quality of the sermon on the sound system. But then again, it all goes back to intelligibility.
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7 comments:
a: I'm praying for the right wisdom, direction, and decision
b: I'm thankful for your leadership
c: I'm hoping the people's opinion of your preaching doesn't change w/ the new sound system!
Those are some tough transitions that you are overseeing, my friend.
Thank you for leading that congregation into a new season of worship and ministry. I'm sure that there have been some long and important conversations involved.
Exciting times! The right pastor in the right place at the right moment...with glorious things about to happen (and already happening)! Hey...sometimes our system does work!
Thanks for leading your congregation into the future. Good luck on your sound system, and all the other things you are doing to enhance worship at College Hill. I checked your church website and think it is well done.
I just tried to access your church website again but can't find it. What is the web address?
Greg, good thoughts...kind of reminds me of the commercial with the cell phone calls being dropped and people misunderstanding what is actually being said. We're trying to work on updating the sound in our Christian Life Center (gym) to make it work for a new service this fall...so I understand what you're going through. Keep up all the good work you're doing. Grace and Peace, John
Since I was the one who was blessed with the opportunity of making the proposal to the council, I thought I'd let you all know that the motion passed without fail. College Hill is very blessed to have Pastor Greg sharing The Word with us, and we pray that now it can reach even more. Thanks for your prayers!
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