Until recently, the idea of pulling out your cell phone in church was the height of trashy behavior. But now, some pastors all over the country are encouraging their members to Twitter during the service, sending out "tweets" of notes, ideas, and principles from the message to their many followers.First off let me say this; if your pastor is so boring you have to multi-task on your phone to keep from losing it during a service, you might want to consider finding a church where you personal can get fed. I believe this is another way for Satan to stop the message from going forth. Satan no's that preaching is one of the most powerful tool there is for reaching souls for Christ. Satan has watch man long enough to no just what to use to pull us away and stop us from receiving from something as simple as preaching.
Now the Holy Spirit does not interrupt itself when speaking to people. If the Spirit is speaking to you through the pastor then you should be listening and taking to heart what the Spirit is saying. If you are texting then you are not giving full attention and
you are likely annoying someone near you with your activity.
I fell it's better to ask the person to come to church with you so you both can be blessed, or wait until after the service and either visit or call them and tell them what wonderful thing God did in church today. Reading a tweet is like eating popcorn, there is usually very little substance in it.
I used to go to a large church and they would make announcements before every service for people to turn off their pagers, phones, and other devices and still in every service you can hear someone's crazy ring tone that disturbs right when the pastor is at the crux of the matter. Really, is church such a waste of time that we can't give Jesus our undivided attention for 1 hour?
Question: Is there a place in the worship service for technologies like Twitter? What do you think?