Church Tech: Why Have Technology in Ministry: Short- and Long-Term Memories PART 1
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Can media technologies be used for spiritual growth and outreach ministries?
Do short- and long-term memories have anything affect on spiritual results?
Introduction. Church technology is providing Christians greater opportunities to spread God’s Word more than any other time in history. Internet and media technologies for growing in and distributing His Word and ministry messages have never been easier.
Problem With Forgetting. Pastors may spend an average of 20-30 hours each week on message preparation, deliver that message around an hour in length, and have listeners within minutes forget over 50%. After one hour, 66% is forgotten, and after six hours, 75% is lost. Seven hours is a further loss (Ebbinghaus, 1913). So before the end of the day, more than three-quarters of the message is gone! Conversely, two or three hearings beyond the initial one cause retention rate to increase to about 80%. (Graph is Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve. X-axis = 0-7 Hours of Time. Y-axis = 0-100 Items Remembered.)
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Multiple Listening. Multiple listening is the only way, other than a shocking Divine Epiphany, to transfer items from short-term memory to long-term memory. Brain research within the last century has determined we have two kinds of memory, short-term and long-term, which network back and forth. Everything we hear first goes into short-term memory. When the entrance of additional short-term events displace former short-term ones, this is called forgetting. Remembering is having events stored in long-term memory. Two factors must occur to initiate long-term memory (or remembering), (1) an X amount of repetition (2) within an X amount of time. In music, a melody or part of a melody must be repeated a certain number of times within 30 seconds for melodic memory to occur. If 30 seconds applies to tonal sound, verbal must be similar because they are both sound. As changing events in short-term memory interact with more permanent ones in long-term memory, these direct the listener’s focus of attention. Only that which is attended upon and remembered affects life-changes. Want Biblical proof?
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Ministry Tip. We at Kingdom, Inc. have found the idea of multiple listening so valuable for God’s Kingdom that it has become one of our main ministry tips to train pastors. (Have you ever noticed that when you call, we give out many ministry tips?) Many pastor or ministry leaders may ask, “If I record sermons for multiple listening, isn’t that promoting myself?” The short answer is, “It has nothing to do with the speaker, but everything to do with the Truth in the message. Multiple listening has the same effect as studying the same Scripture over and over!”
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