Intelligibility

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.