Got to
throw my opinion in here. My wife's parent's go to a mega church with Ton's of gear. Every
Sunday is a show. Even though I'm a Bible beliver, it really turns my stomach to see all that money that could have been spent feeding starving kids in Africa or something. They say they are in a rich part of town and have to live up to a certain standard or people won't come. My thought is if you are serving an important
role in the community people will come. We don't have the same problem at my church:
My Church's "Rig":
-An ancient 12
channel two scene
preset board... no memory or submasters
-2 "new" S4's
-6 of those old square 4.5 inch Berkey "zooms" that you open up with a screw
driver and move the lenses around in.
-8
Par can's that look like they are from the 80's... that's 1880's
-A video
projector the size of a microwave. That pumps out around 12 lumens... not 1200... just 12.
OHHHH YEAAH!!!
WE have over 300 members, two services, and could easily afford to spend more on lighting but don't because it's not important. I don't recall anything in the Bible about being the church with the most Vari-lites... seems to me it's supposed to be more about helping the poor, sick, and hungary. Just my 2 cents.