{"id":995,"date":"2010-12-03T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T10:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2010-12-03T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T10:12:23","slug":"watching-you-watching-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2010\/12\/03\/watching-you-watching-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching you watching me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>Time to trade in the pulpit?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t intending to blog today after releasing a cat amongst the digital\u00a0pigeons\u00a0yesterday. \u00a0However, having come across an alarming statistic in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/dec\/02\/google-piracy-illegal-downloads\"> Guardian <\/a>today, I felt compelled to do so. \u00a0Apparently there are 35 hours of video material uploaded onto YouTube every minute. By my reckoning that amounts to a staggering\u00a03024000 minutes per day &#8211; which would take over 2000 days to watch? Even if that statistic is open to question and the maths could be reworked &#8211; it is an astonishing figure. \u00a0In this world of high tech swiftly delivered video material, should the preacher just quietly pack up her or his pulpit and shuffle\u00a0unobtrusively\u00a0off into the wings?<\/p>\n<p>You will not be\u00a0surprised\u00a0that my answer to that is a resounding &#8216;no&#8217;! There are numerous reasons, some of which will wait for another post, but here are two of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vast numbers of those millions of minutes are people orientated &#8211; people doing funny, or clever, or courageous things. As long as people are fascinated by people the Bible-based preacher will never run out of raw material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Much as we may love our videos &#8211; we are still hard-wired to engage face to face on the things that really matter. Reflecting on his experience of preaching at a student carol service,<a href=\"http:\/\/krishk.com\/2010\/12\/5-things-i-learned-about-carol-services-from-teenagers\/\"> Krish Kandiah<\/a> commented on the importance of\u00a0eye-balling\u00a0the\u00a0congregation; &#8216;<em>I changed the talk between the afternoon and the evening because of visual feedback i got as people listened to the talk. (something video preaching won\u2019t ever give you ;o) ). <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a great believer in integrating visual media &#8211; whether moving or still, into preaching. However, they are no substitute for captivating speech. We need to hear the most important messages face to face &#8211; and that is something which no amount of video-goggling (or was that googling) will ever replace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to trade in the pulpit? Wasn&#8217;t intending to blog today after releasing a cat amongst the digital\u00a0pigeons\u00a0yesterday. \u00a0However, having come across an alarming statistic in the Guardian today, I felt compelled to do so. \u00a0Apparently there are 35 hours &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2010\/12\/03\/watching-you-watching-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,95,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}