Technology and God's Word

     Yesterday our Gospel reading was the Great Commission from Matthew 28.  "Go and make disciples of all nations..."
     Along that line of thinking, I have been pondering a great deal lately about how much and what technology we in the church use or should be using to the end of spreading the Gospel.
     Now I would not consider myself a technophobe at all.  I actually like technology, and I am fascinated by all the new stuff they are coming out with all the time (from a safe distance I should add).  That is to say that neither can I afford to keep up, nor do I think for the most part that it is absolutely necessary.  I don't really want to get caught up in that game of always trying to keep up.  It seems to me it would be exhausting, let alone what to do with all of the obsolete stuff.  Some of it I think I could figure out on my own. Some of it I would be able to do if somebody just took the time to show me.  Hey, I am from the "Show-Me" state, AND I am a visual learner.  But some of it I just don't see a need for, or that I would ever use it.
     Which brings me to my question for today--How much and what technologies should we be using in the church to do the work that God has called us to do?  The majority of the work that I do in the church centers around the Word.  I am a Lutheran pastor, and I think that is how it should be.  But we use technology to do that.  We record the services.  We have a website that helps to bring people to the Word and the Word to people's lives.  I have this blog, in which I am trying to feed people with God's Word on a regular basis.  We use emails and cell phones and computers to do much of the word processing and communication that is done in the church.  But I know pastors and churches that make use of so much more technology than that.  And I am not saying it is a bad thing.  I guess I wonder how far do we go with it?  At what point does it go so far with the technology that it no longer resembles church and worship but business and entertainment instead?  Something to ponder!  Perhaps more on this tomorrow as I think it through.
Thanks for reading and God bless!