An Honest Question...

Do you feel that TV evangelism can be done tastefully? Could there be some kind of filtering as to what would be allowed to air - in case there would be something that would void out what we are trying to present? It's just a thought...what do you think?

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Sissy

Do you feel that TV evangelism can be done tastefully? Could there be some kind of filtering as to what would be allowed to air - in case there would be something that would void out what we are trying to present? It's just a thought...what do you think?

I hate the "restrictions" idea but if I had my personal rathers I would say no "Live" church services and absolutely no appeals for money, outside of a scrolling 30 sec. text at the end of the program.

Hello, I am new to the forum.

my vote is for limited advertisement and no services broadcast or lengthy begging for money. same as the previous post.

have a nice day

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Bro.Bob

Hello, I am new to the forum.

my vote is for limited advertisement and no services broadcast or lengthy begging for money. same as the previous post.

have a nice day

Cool Rob. Welcome to the forum. You are off to a great start!

[joyful]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

If our church started airing live church services I would have to rethink my attendance though - It is too intensly personal and private to me to broadcast live church.

I completely agree with this. Although our church does not air services on TV, they do record DVD's of preaching and though they don't do this anymore, they used to show video of the singers and occasionally the audience on the big projector screen at the front of the church during service.

During one service I was having a very intense and personal time of worship and as I began to open my eyes, I saw my face filling almost the entire front screen. I quickly closed my eyes again and I can only describe what I felt in that moment as a feeling of being violated. I was sick in the pit of my stomach, and it was not embarrassment. It was the fact that something very personal was made public. I can't even imagine having that shown on TV.

I am all for advertising on TV, but I think there are many reasons not to have live services being broadcast.

[StillStanding]

Originally Posted by joyful

I completely agree with this. Although our church does not air services on TV, they do record DVD's of preaching and though they don't do this anymore, they used to show video of the singers and occasionally the audience on the big projector screen at the front of the church during service.

During one service I was having a very intense and personal time of worship and as I began to open my eyes, I saw my face filling almost the entire front screen. I quickly closed my eyes again and I can only describe what I felt in that moment as a feeling of being violated. I was sick in the pit of my stomach, and it was not embarrassment. It was the fact that something very personal was made public. I can't even imagine having that shown on TV.

I am all for advertising on TV, but I think there are many reasons not to have live services being broadcast.

Good post!

Where's there such a controversy regarding the radio when it was allowable? Was there concerns as to "who would say what" on the radio that might misrepresent the church? I'm not quite old enough to remember when the radio was permissable.

Any takers on this?

However, I do remember some of the radio broadcasting that was done by anyone that could afford to be on the air - and let's just say...well some was good and some was entertaining to say the least.

In the early 90's my father-in-law and husband had a radio broadcast at the time - and the man listened to them and brought his family to our church and they were baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost and his name was Jimmy Godair - nephew of Johnny Godair!

You just never know...

[joyful]

Originally Posted by Sissy

Where's there such a controversy regarding the radio when it was allowable? Was there concerns as to "who would say what" on the radio that might misrepresent the church? I'm not quite old enough to remember when the radio was permissable.

Any takers on this?

I'm not old enough to have any firsthand knowledge of whether or not this controversy existed regarding radio broadcasts. However, you got me thinking about it, and I was pondering reasons that there might not have been as many objections.

One thought that I had was that radio is less identifiable. You might hear a preacher's message on radio, but unless you listened all the way to the end of the program or to an intro right after a commercial break, you might never even know what church you were listening to. Also, you would not really know what was going on in an altar or worship service (even if crazy or unusual things were going on) just by listening over the radio because the sound of the audience just runs together.

Because OP have a very distinct look, when people see a service on TV with people that "look like us", they are going to identify what they see with those of us in other churches that have the same look. This was a non-issue with radio, and that may be a reason for the increased concern regarding TV service broadcasts.