I Encourage My Kids Text in Church!

In fact, my pastor encourages it as well!!!

Now I’m not talking about chatting with friends or avoiding the sermon by texting the latest gossip, but at my church we have a two-way open conversation with the pastor by texting him questions. Before he even starts on the sermon, he puts his cell phone number up and encourages the congregation to text him questions. And at the end, he tries to answer most of them.

Take this morning for instance. His subject was on Hell. A very controversial and touchy subject with so much ambiguity and questions despite how enlightening his sermon was today. At the end there was a bunch of unanswered questions. My kids even jumped in on the conversation and my pastor was very honest in his answers. If he didn’t have them, he said so. Faith can be messy and though in the past he’s “claimed” to have all the answers, he unashamedly admits he no longer does.

There’s always bound to be a wise guy in the congregation with a personal message to our pastor, which he shares, like today…one of the sound guys complimented pastor on his good looks and eloquent speech. “Laughter doth good like a medicine” especially after a heavy subject at church.

So what are your thoughts on this? Do you text questions to the pastor in your church? How else can technology be used in a positive way in church?