Signs Your Church is Geeky

Today I was sitting in a back room ripping the sermon CD to mp3 for the podcast and figured I would put these out on the blog.

Top 10 (aka. 1010) Signs Your Church is Geeky

  1. Most ministries are named using recursive acronyms.
  2. There are many more people in the sound booth than there are ever on the stage.
  3. Altar calls are done via IM.
  4. Small Groups have been replaced by SkypeGroups.
  5. Your worship leader rewrote Martin Luther’s song to “A Mighty Firewall Is Our God.”
  6. Some are so paranoid about using any public wi-fi that you are installing fiber to the pews.
  7. The call to worship prayer includes “Lord, we pray that the fire this morning will come from our hearts and not from our laptops.”
  8. That whole “God responds to knee-mail” joke has been banned.
  9. As the congregation has been growing there has been discussion of “installing” new services.
  10. The preacher’s outline is listed as points 1, 10, and 11.

If you can think of any other good ones, please post them in the comments. :)

Edit: Also, check out the following posts dealing with “The Geek Driven Church.”

  1. “10 More Signs Your Church is Geeky”
  2. “Another 10 Signs Your Church Is Geeky”

5 Responses to “Signs Your Church is Geeky”


  1. 1 chatfield Sep 26th, 2006 at 7:05 pm

    The WBB (weekly buletin and blog) and the OOW (order-of-worship) are beamed to your Palm as you walk through the door. Please have it powered on as you enter.

  2. 2 Bob Brown Sep 26th, 2006 at 7:34 pm

    That would save on paper. perhaps it could arrive with areminder to turn off cell phone ringers, or just the whole phone altogether.

    I saw the mother of a 12-year-old text messaging during prayer a few weeks back.

  3. 3 Bob Brown Oct 26th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    An inordinate amount of your benevolence ministry’s work is fixing computers for little old ladies.

  4. 4 salvationismine Nov 4th, 2006 at 11:51 am

    I love these Signs Your Church is Geeky! lol
    Hope you dont mine if I pass them on, with your link , of course!!

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