Church media

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Church Media is a collective term for using media in the modern Christian church. Jesus inspired his followers to proselytize; Church Media is a set of tools used to achieve this aim. Sound, lighting and computer generated images, and web sites are the primary forms of media, but paper is also considered a form of media.

Many ministries today engage the skills of technically minded and creative Christians to utilize projectors, public amplifier sound systems, video content, dramatic plays with multimedia content among other things to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Media in the church has become as important as the preaching itself. No longer do we live in a world where a preacher can just talk for an hour and not use a visual aid, churches must use methods that are relevant to the culture. Media is the best way for people to remember what has been taught. Graphics that resemble the sermon, video clips that reinforce the message are just some of the forms of media that can be used.

Churches that often utilize media move beyond the hymnal and the organ, but these are often met with scrutiny, mostly from a generation that has never known anything different. Tradition is the rule of law for many but this often does not get a church anywhere, and it slowly dies because the church refuses to reach out to a generation that only knows Media as the form of education. The church has a great history of taking pagan events and ways and using them to advance the kingdom of God. It is only a matter of time before that revolution with Media will happen again, and the Church must work to achieve that goal.