and maybe I'm getting crotchety or cranky or something as I get older, but WorshipHouse Media (where I get most of my videos for Sunday morning) now has an Applause Meter application that you can use to "pump up" your worship crowd or some other church activity. Here is a quote from the information:
"Remember those old applause meters you would see on television that would gauge the sound level of the audience? "
Yeah, I do. But those were for television, for entertainment. To me, using this in a worship service (except for a zany youth activity or something?) would be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I consider myself pretty progressive when it comes to church and the "sanctity of the worship service" (in other words, I don't subscribe to the notion that we can't wear a baseball cap or we have to dress up or we have to be really quiet during the worship service, because it's "God's place". There should be no distinction between the "sacred" and the "secular" because God is everywhere and shows up everywhere, not just at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday.), but an applause meter is pretty silly.
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I totally agree with you...that is just wrong. Sometimes total silence those first few seconds after you sing a worship song says it all..not applause.
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