Is the purpose to be more like a concert? Why do we need to enhance worship with lights? Can you name specific, continual times/services/events where the worship was definitively enhanced by stage lighting? How do you know it was the lighting that enhanced it? What would you say to people around the world or those in smaller churches that don’t have the resources to have stage lighting? Don’t you think it would be unfair and unjust of God to use something that makes it easier to enter the presence of God, yet not everyone has access to it? Is it to create an atmosphere? What kind of atmosphere does it create? Is it to enhance worship? How does it enhance worship? If stage lighting can enhance worship, doesn’t it mean that everyone that has come before us was missing out?

Isaiah 1:18 says, “‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ Says the LORD…” Again, this isn’t to cause strife, but to cause one to think. Some of these thoughts may cross over or be duplicated. These main questions are listed below with more thoughts and questions. On the contrary, they are meant to cause one to think about the purpose behind our actions, what the Bible says, and if what we are doing is according to the Word of God. These questions are not meant to berate, assault, or in any way cause conflict. These questions are just to get us thinking about what we’re doing in church (not just in worship, but the whole service). With this idea of today’s church culture in mind, I have a few questions for those who think we need stage lighting shows. You do anything to grab and keep people’s attention because after all, we are a visual generation. You try to put moving graphics on the screen so people don’t fall asleep. If you can’t, then you do your best to have some kind of stage lighting to keep the audience’s attention. In the culture of the church today, it has become the trend to have a stage design, stage lighting, even a whole light show to accompany a worship service.

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