Lindsay Wilcox’s Reviews > Rebuilding Your Message: Practical Tools to Strengthen Your Preaching and Teaching > Status Update

So is being one of the "churchpeople" bad? I'm not a fully formed disciple, but shouldn't that be something I'm working on becoming?

There is a place for silence in liturgy. That pause after "let us pray" is for us to actually pray, silently. It's not meant for shuffling our way to standing and for the priest to find the right page. No one suddenly hears God through noise.

Giant venues like St. Peter's Square have screens because the spaces are huge. We don't generally have Mass outside, but you can't fit a million people inside there. I dislike screens the way I dislike drums and tambourines: they *can* be used well, and I have experienced that, but they are usually used badly.

I have only seen video screens used like the authors mention in one place: a giant ballroom at a FOCUS Conference. I am tall, and even I had my line of sight blocked so that I couldn't see the song lyrics more than once. If children can't see over adults, what makes the screens more visible to them?

I don't know what page this was on, but I made a note while I was reading on a plane. The "areas of human development" are listed as physical, intellectual, spiritual, social, and emotional. Sounds reasonable to me!

These tiny chapters are driving me crazy, but this one on establishing ethos is pretty solid.