UPDATE: On the other hand, read this blog entry on Mark Batterson’s Evotional blog. Interesting food for thought.
Brian Slezak is blogging at The Appian Way blog about this article which appeared in the New York Times a couple of days ago: Missed Church? Download It To Your IPod (registration required).
I have to admit that I have mixed feelings about podcasting, godcasting, or videocasting church services, or for that matter including streaming audio or video of church services on a church website. This is not to say that I think podcasting or videocasting is problematic in itself — I think there are great uses for it, primarily in memorializing the spontaneous life of the church. But actual services, I’m not so sure.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
