Vertizontal has a post up about using Twitter at church. The usefulness of something like Twitter in a worship service might not be immediately apparent, but John describes the unexpected ways it proved worthwhile. The way his church went about it provides a nice model for experimenting with new technologies in worship services: they encouraged people to try using Twitter during a service, watched closely how it worked in practice, and then listened to positive and negative feedback about it. And doing all that gave the church lots of ideas about other ways to put Twitter to use in other (perhaps more suitable) parts of the church’s ministry.

I can see how Twitter might be really distracting during a sermon—but I’m also intrigued by the potential to read people’s immediate responses to a message they’re hearing.

Anybody else tried using Twitter in a church service? How’d it go?

If your church hasn’t tried anything like this… could you see it benefiting the service at all? What use(s) might you find for Twitter in your church services or ministries?