This morning I got done putting the finishing touches on a video that I’m planning on showing this coming Sunday for Christ the King Sunday. This Sunday is the culmination of the church year and celebrates Christ’s reign as King of kings and Lord of Lords.

I used an audio clip from SM Lockridge. Pastor Lockridge gives a wonderful greeting to a congregation. I took the audio clip along with images and words and made it into a 5 minute video that I will be using for a call to worship. The amazing thing is that it was all done within the digital realm, on the church’s laptop. A couple of weeks ago, I did something similar at FLAME, but it was much smaller in scope. This was quite a project and when I was done, I also made it into a DVD, again with nothing ever leaving the laptop.

Some may say why use all this technology and video? In reality using video for worship is nothing different than churches did in the Middle Ages. Why did they use all that stained glass? Why did they have icons and statues? These things were teaching tools to help them remember the stories of Jesus. The Middle Age congregation was not able to read, and not only that the service was all in Latin. The pictures were teaching tools, not unlike the teaching tools that were used several decades ago like the flannel graph and film strips and audio recordings and even the posters that are part of the modern Sunday School ciricullum.

My desire is that through God’s word, audio and video, singing, praying and preaching, we make clear the gospel of Christ and that we build the Kingdom of God and his son, Jesus. I want to see us make disciples and to take as many to heaven as we can.