Although other books discuss how to involve multi-media elements in
worship, The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World is the first to
explore how electronic culture shapes people's perceptions and
expectations of what worship is.
The new electronic culture, explains Tex Sample, is a culture
that involves fundamentally different ways of experiencing and
knowing the world. It is also a culture that holds tremendous
challenges for all areas of the life of the church, none more so
than its worship. Sample points out that if we hope to reach the
generations that have grown up with television and other electronic
media as daily parts of their lives, we must understand what
electronic culture is, and begin to think about how the church's
worship can learn from it and adapt to it.
Examining the three central elements of electronic culture --
images, sound as beat, and visualization -- Sample demonstrates
that meaning arises for those steeped in this culture from the
convergence of these elements, rather than from any one of them
individually. He goes on to discuss how these are already present
in Christian worship, and how they might be made more evident. In
addition, he explains that worship can serve as a corrective and
critique of electronic culture, and concludes the book with
suggestions for how to build worship around an awareness of this
new kind of culture.
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