type of service in your church

[tateziwin]

My Baptist Church puts on a PowerPoint Presentation of the sermon.
Pretty neat, I reckon.

How do other Baptist churches present their service to the brethren?

[CrystalBrooke]

we have 4 preachers at our church, and whoever feels like they have the message gets up and reads what he needs from the bible and preaches on it. pretty old fashioned and simple, but i like it that way. sometimes we dont even have a sermon.

[jenptcfan]

We have a traditional service early Sunday morning--no multimedia presentations, only piano and organ.

We also have a contemporary service later Sunday morning--complete with power point notes for the sermon, short video clips that go along with the message, dramas, choir and praise team, various instruments, etc.

[tesnusxenos]

we have 4 preachers at our church, and whoever feels like they have the message gets up and reads what he needs from the bible and preaches on it. pretty old fashioned and simple, but i like it that way. sometimes we dont even have a sermon.
this is the way I think church should be. really taking into account,
1 Corinthians14:26, that everyone has something to bring!

[~WildRoseCowgirl~]

We have a traditional service too, my mom playes the piano and we sing both contemporary songs and hymns, and pastor gets up and preaches....

[Mary_Magdalene]

edited due to me being a jerk.

*Please look away while i get this huge plank out of my own eye-this sometimes gets messy :sick: ** ugh-this hurts....*** hey! I told you all not to look!***


Please accept my apologies on being such a jerk. i have been struggling with some "plank in the eye issues" lately. :sigh:

[CrystalBrooke]

:prayer: praying....sorry for the side track...back to the OP:)

[@@Paul@@]

this is the way I think church should be. really taking into account,
1 Corinthians14:26, that everyone has something to bring!
.........As our Pastor always says: "If God told you to share something,,, I'll let ya, as soon as He tell's me"... :P

[Mary_Magdalene]

if you have posted before me in this thread, please read my apology in my post above.

thanks.

[BT]

Please accept my apologies on being such a jerk. i have been struggling with some "plank in the eye issues" lately. :sigh:
Forgiven and forgotton.

[OracleX]

OK bring things back to the topic ...

Our church using a projector setup for everything. Announements on the screen when you come in, music on it when you sing, sermon notes on it during the preaching. Every child in the children classes have a number and if you see it in the top corner, you know that you need to go see you child.

Our church has a fairly modern look to it and functions very smoothly with all the techonolgy that has been used.

[Frankie]

My Baptist Church puts on a PowerPoint Presentation of the sermon.
Pretty neat, I reckon.

How do other Baptist churches present their service to the brethren?I attend a Baptist service and we have modern praise music with a band, overhead projector with the music and sermon notes on the screen and 4 pastors. 2 main pastors who do the sermons, a worship leader pastor and a children's pastor. Sermons usually last about 30-40 minutes and the music, scripture reading and announcements all together last about 30 minutes. So, our worship services are about 1 hour 10 min. and sunday school is about 1 hour long. Prayer meeting is about 30 min. So, if you are going to go to the whole thing, you are looking at about 2 1/2 hours or more. If there are baptisms, service is longer.

I have to admit though, it goes by so fast that it feels like you are only there for 10 min.

Frankie

[eldermike]

Our church using a projector setup for everything. Announements on the screen when you come in, music on it when you sing, sermon notes on it during the preaching. Every child in the children classes have a number and if you see it in the top corner, you know that you need to go see you child.

Our church has a fairly modern look to it and functions very smoothly with all the techonolgy that has been used.
This is a perfect description of my church.

[BT]

OK bring things back to the topic ...

Our church using a projector setup for everything. Announements on the screen when you come in, music on it when you sing, sermon notes on it during the preaching. Every child in the children classes have a number and if you see it in the top corner, you know that you need to go see you child.

Our church has a fairly modern look to it and functions very smoothly with all the techonolgy that has been used.
This is a bit opposite of my church. We use a projector for Wed night Bible Studies and sometimes the Sunday night services or other things but we aren't immersed in technology like you guys are. I don't see a problem with it one way or the other. It's a preference thing. We use hymn books and chorus books for the singing. Which is fine with me. If our pastor wanted to use a projector I would not run screaming out of the church. :)

[OracleX]

This is a bit opposite of my church. We use a projector for Wed night Bible Studies and sometimes the Sunday night services or other things but we aren't immersed in technology like you guys are. I don't see a problem with it one way or the other. It's a preference thing. We use hymn books and chorus books for the singing. Which is fine with me. If our pastor wanted to use a projector I would not run screaming out of the church. :)
LOL I could just see you running out screaming... ROFL!

One thing about a church that I use to go to that I thought that they were going too far with techonolgy was removing the physical person. They were talking about doing satilite churchs but one preacher and that the satilite churchs would have a video feed of the past preaching at a different location. That didn't appeal to me much.

[Frankie]

LOL I could just see you running out screaming... ROFL!

One thing about a church that I use to go to that I thought that they were going too far with techonolgy was removing the physical person. They were talking about doing satilite churchs but one preacher and that the satilite churchs would have a video feed of the past preaching at a different location. That didn't appeal to me much.No kidding, I agree! I would not be very excited about attending service with a "virtual" pastor. lolololo

Frankie

[CrystalBrooke]

we dont even own a projector screen! (not that there's anything wrong with it) i live in southeastern Kentucky...im not a stupid hillbilly, but we are quite simple about church services down here! my school choir took a trip to myrtle beach to sing at a church down there...i didnt like it very much...it was too modern for me...i bet you all wouldnt like it here either, bc we are soooo...opposite of your services. but its all about what you're used to and if God's in it, thats all that matters!

[eldermike]

but its all about what you're used to and if God's in it, thats all that matters!
Amen

[Razorbuck]

We open the worship service with prayer then sing hymns from the "Heavenly Highway Hymnal" accompanied by guitar or piano, no canned music. Then Preacher or one of the men preaches for about an hour or however the Holy Spirit leads, then altar call. Sounds dry looking at it in print but our services are always exciting (to me anyway) and seem to fly by!

[Sword-In-Hand]

We have one pastor, but he's a fireballer. He's not a hacker as is common in some Baptist churches, but its easy to see he has a passion for Christ and doesn't care to get excited when he preaches God's word.

Sunday morning services are usually old fashion. A couple of hymns, a special song, then the message. Sunday nights are altogether different. We turn down the lights, throw up some praise and worship music on the projector and have our full praise band play music. Wednesday nights are pretty mellow, but still awesome to attend.

[Razorbuck]

We have one pastor, but he's a fireballer. He's not a hacker as is common in some Baptist churches, but its easy to see he has a passion for Christ and doesn't care to get excited when he preaches God's word.
Forgive my ignorance brother, but what is a "hacker"?

[Sword-In-Hand]

LOL, let me attempt to explain that phenomenon.

A hacker is a preacher who gets on a roll and says "hah" after each sentence. For example.

"I want you to know that the Lord loves ya, hah. You've got to believe in Jesus to be saved, hah. There is only one God, hah. Moses touched his staff to the water, hah."

If you've ever seen the movie Coming to America, when Arsenio Hall plays the pastor, that gives a good idea of a hacker.

[Razorbuck]

Thanks for the clarification! I've heard preachers like that before. Scared me to death the first time. I thought he was choking! I was getting ready to run up on the platform and perform the Heimlich manuever when I noticed everyone else was calm as could be and shouting "Amen"! ;)

[Mary_Magdalene]

if you sit in the front, plan to bring some tissues with you to wipe the spit off you face. some of them can really get some distance goin'. :wave:

[RED that's ME]

Well it keeps the service interesting for sure. :P

[jenptcfan]

lol...y'all are cracking me up!

[tateziwin]

>>>if you sit in the front, plan to bring some tissues with you to wipe the spit off you face. some of them can really get some distance goin'. :wave:<<<<


LOL!!!
I am so glad I posted this question! :D
Not only has it been informative but it has been hysterically funny too! That last one about the 'distance spitting pastors' really cracked me up.

My church, even though it uses modern tech for sermon, the songs are pretty dull,( nice and glorifying but a bit dull and old), is there any way one could suggest to the pastor that perhaps some more modern stuff might get a few more people in? (there is only about 20 folks attending)
Like, how did your churches transfom from the traditional to up-to-date? :scratch:

[eldermike]

Like, how did your churches transfom from the traditional to up-to-date? http://christianforums.com/images/smilies/scratch.gif
I have yet to see this happen. What we did was start a new church. It took 8 years meeting in schools, then a building program. We are now full and looking at a second service. And even though this sounds great the focus on our mission statement has gone by the wayside as we now have a building and programs to run.

So, I am about ready to start another one. When a church is meeting out of boxes they tend to focus on leading people to Christ and doing things in the community.

If you find a way to make real changes in an established church let me know.

Mike

[Sinai]

We typically use a combination of hymns and praise choruses--with the words projected onto the video screens (although folks can also use the Baptist Hymnals for the hymns and choruses that are included in that book). Since the church choir and orchestra normally do not participate in the early Sunday morning service, that service may tend to be a bit more informal than the 10:50 service.