[InvisibleChurch]

how is using a microphone mocking God?

[ApplegateRanch]

It is not the microphone, per se; it is the treating it as a performance, with an audience.

Ministers, pre electric, preached entire services to much larger crowds, who had no trouble hearing BECAUSE THEY LISTENED. Proper acoustics also helped.

I've seen too many services that were way too much "show" and not enough "tell".

Just a bit of the old Puritan and Huguenot ancestry showing through, maybe.