Mr. Lucas, the pastor at Liquid, speculated that hip, high-tech churches like his own might soon generate their own backlash.
Although audience members could text questions to the panel anonymously, the ones scrolling across two giant screens (yes, this was some seriously high-tech church) were universally tame, centering on political lobbying, leveraging resources, personal actions, and replicating the neighborhood/community school model.
Sussex Tech, 105 North Church Road, Sparta.
In just five years the church has also been outfitted with a computer lab, a projection system and a digital dashboard that streams information to a number of monitors located throughout the church, replacing the old bulletin board, said Joy Patterson, who serves on the church's tech committee.
At Shiloh Baptist Church, the church's two-person tech committee wired most of the church, including the sanctuary, with Wi-Fi -- as announced by a 12-foot-high black-and-gold sign that hangs outside one of the church's entrances, reading "Wi-Fi Zone".
Let's not forget my favorite (please pick up on my sarcasm there...) the millennials just don't think church is "cool" or "tech" enough to enjoy anymore.
The uproar has been loudest at four giant churches located in the high-tech, sprawl-ridden, conservative suburbs southwest of Washington.
From the smaller, more traditional neighborhood churches to the huge megachurches, tech-savvy religious leaders and congregants are finding unique ways to incorporate technology in order to modernize the church-going experience.
It's underground, beneath a church – you actually have to stop doing tech rehearsals when there's a service on above.
One audience member described it "more like Sunday morning at a Southern Baptist church than anything you'd find at a tech conference".
"We're in use at oil refineries, churches, finance companies, advertising agencies, schools, factories, warehouses and, yes, tech companies," Gadea says.
