Kenya: Technology is Neutral, So the Church Should Use It - AllAfrica.com

Andrew Limo

Preachers can utilise engineering to propagate the word of God

It used to be a not-so-Christian thing for a Christian church to utilize engineering to propagate the word of God. Even the guitar was frowned upon by the old school fold who believed that anything outside the piousness of their guttural consonant voices was sin.

That have all changed now. The Christian Christian church is going hi-tech with audio-visual equipment, artificial satellite broadcast media both in television and radiocommunication and websites.

Church services, especially those in the urban areas, resound with music and dance in a manner that until recently, was considered worldly.

Trendy curates read from hand-held devices like the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), where using a software system like e-sword, they can voyage a soft transcript of the Book with a pen-like stick.

American televangelist Pat Oscar Robertson is now dwell on YouTube, the societal networking site.

Closer home, a church in Gilgil composes melodies and then salvages them on the computer. Come Lord'S Day and all the composer makes is hit a figure in the run-down and some thrilling anthem is played out through a powerful dad system.

The other twenty-four hours I watched as the curate of one of the most conservative Christian churches in Republic Of Kenya mounted a powerfulness point presentation for his sermon.

It was not an easy undertaking though getting it to work. First there was a job with the cablegram connecting his laptop computer with the liquid crystal display projector.

Luckily, some techno-savvy deacons quickly rushed to the pastor's aid. After fiddling with the cables, the machine started transmitting holy information to the wall in presence of the faithful.

The 2nd enlistment obviously had something to make with the deficiency of accomplishments by the adult male of God. He kept switching from the different position options and moving the microscope slides forward and backward with the pointers on the keyboard thus losing the sequence of his message.

And like any of us would make when engineering neglects us, he blamed it all on the capriciousness of modern innovations. Despite the shortcomings, it was evident that the fold keenly listened and followed the illustrations made available by technology.

I can conceive of how hard it was for one to follow the discourse those old age of the early Christian Christian church when the word was read by a individual from an aging scroll, with no mike and talkers to magnify his voice for the flock's benefit.

The innovation of the printing fourth estate must have got been a large alleviation for monastics who locked themselves up for years to compose the oldest book, the Bible, by hand.

So are the people of Supreme Being now conforming to the human race or are they simply responding to the prophesy that in the last years the human race will witnesser and addition in knowledge?

Most Christians believe that Information and Communication Technology (ICT), just like any other technology, can be used for good grounds or for destruction.

You can drive a auto (a technology) into a tree or a church compound. It is up to you!

Technology is neutral; it is the user who finds the way it goes. I have a batch of forwarded e-mails with inspiring Christian messages which I am instructed to send on to 10 other people if I desire to have a blessing.

Through the same computer, person else could see pornographic stuff. In such as a scenario, which portion of the computing machine make we blame?

For as long as it makes not worship technology, I believe the Christian church can deliver ICTs to back up its course of study (Isaiah 44:9-20).

The Book also warns against the thought that there is no restriction to human ability. Everything, the Holy Place Book says, should be done for the glorification of God.

Futurists have got warned that the usage of engineering is in itself the fulfillment of end-times prophesy.

Quite often Christians mention the loss of freedom and privateness as some of the disputatious issues when it come ups to engineering and the church.

Terry Cook in his book, The Mark of The New World Order, states governments, wellness coverage companies, recognition bureaux and other federal agencies that cod information on you may do a breach of your confidentiality in one manner or another.

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"Certainly, there would be no warrants that confidential information might not inadvertently 'leak' out to person not authorised to have got got it."

Whereas these concerns are genuine, some people have over-hyped the dangers of using technology. The existent danger is in not using it in modern Kenya.

How would one make concern - importation a car, transportation money or corroborate vote enrollment without the helping manus of technology?