“Do
you want your children and grandchildren to know Jesus Christ?” asks
consultant and author Tex Sample. “Do you want them to worship in
a way that’s intrinsic to them?”
Sample
and Charles Fulton, director of Congregational Development for the
Episcopal Church, were presenters for the Bishop’s Fourth Annual
Spring Conference, “The E-Church”, which attracted about 220 participants
to St. Mark the Evangelist, Ft. Lauderdale, Mar. 26 and 27. Friday’s
session was particularly aimed at clergy, church staff and lay leaders,
and Saturday’s was for everyone.
The electronic culture has changed the way people under
40 experience the world, both men told the group. If the church wants
its message to have an impact on the people whose sensory experience
has been shaped by electronic media, we need to expand our vocabulary
of liturgical practice, and “bring the world’s story into the church”.
Spectacle, “performance”, images, music, light—these are
the elements of the multi-sensory “immersive” experience that the
electronic generations find meaningful...
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The Bishop's 4th
Annual 
