It was made apparent to me over the weekend that I may have giving off the wrong impression by using my tablet pc during church services. 

Some of our more aged members were under the impression that it was just a toy I was playing with while our pastor was preaching.(If they were paying attention to the pastor instead of me they would have never seen that I even had it right)

It really brought home a problem that churches all over the nation are experiencing. 

How to integrate technology in services without creating the appearance of distractedness. 

While we may be a smaller church, our technological capabilities are on par with many churches double our size.  We have taken an active path in harnessing any technology that will allow us to extend our message. 

Where we may have failed is in illustrating the possibilities that technology give our congregation members.  We have implemented things without really explaining them. 

We launched a website and put an announcement up, but did we really take the time to explain what the website was for? 

We allowed our congregation to utilize the wi-fi during church so they can access whatever they need to for a bible app or online journaling program but did we tell them how it could help them in their personal study?

Being a child of a technological generation I understand the usefulness of the many resources we have at our fingertips.  This can however be confusing and intimidating to those older congregation members who are used to the traditional way of doing things. 

Maybe we need to be more proactive in trying to involve the older members of the church in our new “innovations” for the movement of God’s word.