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Lose the microphone

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.

You misapprehend on two counts.

1. I was speaking specifically of the Baptism.

2. I also mentioned services in pre-electronic times.

Modern church services are another matter entirely.

My church does have a tape ministry, televised rebroadcast of services, and Internet streaming, both video or audio-only.

I'm not sure if it adds or detracts from the services; probably depends on age and background. MTV generation probably likes and expects it; my grandmother would have been scandalized; it is obvious I'm ambivalent.

I might add that, in a church, I prefer acoustic instruments to amplified; pipe organs over electronic; candles to controlled electric lighting...but a good preacher trumps any and all of those.