Some have the gift of PowerPoint slide transition. I, seemingly, don't. At least not on a black-belt level.
Yet I've found myself being the one, clicker in hand, on many-a-Sunday.
Really, it shouldn't be that hard.
Follow the words, click once when they start to run out on the current slide, repeat.
But there's one drawback which is true for all churches which use projected words or people who actively monitor sound during a church service.
They cannot truly worship.
Sure, they can be aware of God's presence and have an encounter with God, but it will always be stifled by the next impending click (which you don't want to get wrong or you'll cop the dreaded now-is-the-time-to-change-the-slide-glance).
I wonder how often this is taken into account at churches?
Ideally, the person with the clicking power shouldn't be the same one every Sunday, thus freeing them up to engage more on their "off" weeks.
But, no matter how regularly the word-transition person is "on," is it recommended that they then attend another service in order to get some them-and-God time?
Heaven forbid that the slide changer is someone who would dare close their eyes when they sing to God... I guess they'd get weeded out during the screening process.
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