You are absolutely right; he was performing a sacred right...
...not giving a performance.
Lose the microphone, and speak up; either the crowd will, in their solemn silence, hear; if not, then they also mistake it for a social event.
What is next, spot lights? Stage lighting?
No, God does not appreciate being mocked.
how is using a microphone mocking God?
How big is the room where your services are held? Does your preacher do 3 back to back services (with sermons in excess of 30 minutes). Can he yell loud enough to be heard in an overflow room or two on another floor?
And it's clear that your church doesn't have a tape ministry, or web streaming. Either of those would require a microphone. What is next, spot lights? Stage lighting?
It can help with the quality of the video feed to the overflow room, but I agree with modern equipment, it is not entirely necessary.
Oh spit. Having a disaster occur at a baptism does not equate to divine displeasure. Someone could give a baptism in the ocean and find the event visited by a man eating shark or lose the celebrant to a rip tide; does that mean God frowned upon that baptism?
I got dunked under similar circumstances. I stepped up to the mike (a larger church lent our little church the use of the baptismal) and gave my testimony of conversion then the pastor said on mike "I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Amen." (Sploosh!) If this was show biz, it was DULL show biz. But it along with the others who joined at that occasion was inspiring in a different sense to those who heard.
FWIW, we are condemned before we are saved. If the person being baptized, wasn;t to be saved, it's not the physical baptism, but the regeneration of the spirit or baptism by the Holy SPirit that results in salvation. That's for God to discern anyway.
Every sin committed has already been paid for on the Cross. Those who continue to rebel in sin might suffer the sin unto death if they reject his discipline and are simply good for nothingness if they remain by His plan, but most probably this was a simple blunder resulting in manslaughter.