Introduction:

Thank you for visiting this site. Here you will find some of the best knowledge in church acoustics and its impact on church sound systems anywhere.

Why do I post free information about church sound and acoustics on the internet?

I believe that the Bible is sufficient in all things.  That includes worship space design, acoustics, and sound – including amplified sound.  While it is true that amplified sound did not exist until 100 years ago, if you follow the design details in the Bible, you will get the fullest performance out of any properly designed and installed sound system and hardware in God’s house.  The moment you ignore the Bible’s teaching about sanctuary design and acoustics, you limit the performance of every piece of electronics installed. You limit congregational singing, and, in many cases, speech becomes compromised enough that the sound system becomes a barrier between the minister and the audience, denying some people the chance of understanding the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ or the teaching the minister is trying to convey.

Every year millions of Bibles are printed and given away.  With the internet, the Bible is free and accessible to everyone around the world.  As said earlier, everything we need to know in building a house of worship that fully supports Christian Worship in every way is in the Bible.  The problem has been that while there have been examples of people who tried to copy Solomon’s Temple in the past, they failed because no one understood the real purpose of the palm tree carvings on all the walls and doors in this holy place.  If they had known its actual function, then it could be possible that both Jewish Synagogues and Christian worship spaces would all be looking very similar on the inside. 

For years people have thought of the carvings as decorative while others have given these shapes spiritual meanings.  While spiritual meanings can be attributed to the Cherubs and open flowers, the palm tree is the most out-of-place item within the temple.  Many Bible scholars and historians state that everything in the Bible has a purpose.  Then what was the purpose of the carvings of palm trees?

Furthermore, how did the details of the palm tree carving survive 3500 years in Jewish and Bible Scriptures?  Knowing a little about how the Bible was compiled, such detail could have been easily left out and forgotten unless there was a purpose for it that God wanted us to discover.  In 1994, I stumbled across the purpose of the palm tree carvings.  This led to a universal way to fix existing Christian worship spaces and Synagogues.  This method of improving churches is the most effective system of fixing worship spaces, and it is a very cheap solution as well.  Once the purpose of the palm trees and Cherubs were decoded, it became the key to unlocking how Solomon’s Temple was supposed to function.  I started looking under the gold and discovered that the temple is a template of every aspect of modern worship space design that all churches need, and it has been in the Bible all along.

I cannot speak to the reason it took us so long to figure all of this out.  I know that if I were to keep this information private or patented it or licensed it, it would deny more people from hearing the Gospel within worship spaces, and I do not want to be responsible for that.  It would be wrong for anyone to keep such information a secret to the Christian Church community.  Three years later, and after 30 church installs of this acoustical system, I began sharing my knowledge on the internet in 1997 as a DIY system any one church can do on their own.  I tested the worship spaces to document and confirm the effectiveness of this method of finishing the walls of existing sanctuaries is. 

The struggle of hearing and congregational singing within a confined space has been with us since Christianity began.  In 313, after Emperor Constantine became a follower of Christ and ended government persecution of believers, Christians took over pagan temples and began worshiping in them. Since then, Christians have turned to everyone else in designing worship spaces and have allowed the secular world to dominate church Architecture.  From then to the present, Christians have been worshiping in buildings that can never meet all of their worship needs unless that house of worship follows what the Bible teaches.

Today, because of radio and TV broadcasts, mass media, and the internet, the number of false teachers and wolves in sheep’s clothing are so abundant and clever that it is harder to tell who is teaching Christ and who is teaching a false version of Jesus.  These false teachers have become so good that they have formed congregations of people who are followers of a false Gospel and build large mega rooms, and claim that their buildings are houses of God.  There are thousands of congregations following false teachers around the world.  It is so bad that it is almost impossible to tell the false teachers apart from the faithful ministers for Christ.  Both in broadcasting and internet media, these false churches are now dominating the screens of what non-Christians are exposed to the first time they see this type of religion.  This form of religion preys on the poor, the weak, the un-education, and all classes of those looking for a shortcut to wealth and prosperity to satisfy their hidden sin of greed.

The one thing that I do know is that false churches don’t want to fix their acoustics as detailed in the Bible.  They want the kind of acoustics and sound systems that are as good or better than what you will find in Las Vegas or any other secular performance space.  They don’t even want their worship spaces to be as good as concert halls.  They want a place where you can put on a show, a place where it is easy to manipulate people’s feelings to be more receptive to false teaching.  Get people all excited for a half hour or longer, and you can get them to do and believe almost anything.  Then, add in lights that change colors, fog machines, huge video walls, and abstract backgrounds, and what doesn’t get you emotionally hooked with sound, they add “eye candy” into the mix to secure your loyalty to them.  These false churches put on a fantastic musical show. 

They don’t care whether you sing or not, as long as they can get you addicted to being in mood and be receptive to hearing false messages of spiritualized positive thinking.  Positive messages are always about focusing on self-improvement.  Self-improvement is code for placing yourself on the throne of your heart above God.  People are being duped into believing everything from being able to save yourself to deserving to be as wealthy as the false teacher they are following.  Not only do these false teachers put on a spectacular, addictive musical show, but they put on a verbal presentation that is as good or better than most professional self-help motivational speakers who also live like the rich and famous.

In a way, these false teachers have convinced millions of people into believing that their version of religion is better than winning the lottery.  Give us your money, and God will make you rich!  They turned tithing into the concept of buying lottery tickets as a group celebration.  The tickets have no numbers, the winner is always the leader, and the losers are all those people who don’t have a clue that there is a life after death.  Live for the moment, that tithe will pay out any day now!  People who are in this trap, do they know they sold their souls?  Nowhere in the Bible does it say such teaching or imply such promises.  One of the greatest fears these false teachers have is a worship space that performs as well as Solomon’s Temple.  Why?

When a worship space follows the Bible’s design for a house of God, the Christian will not need the show to experience authentic congregational singing and true Biblical worship.  They won’t need the manipulative entertainment performance to get people into a hyper mood.  The congregation will hear and understand the words in the songs they sing and get a blessing without being manipulated.  Singing chouses gets boring fast when somebody can’t maneuver you into a trance.  When you can get a blessing from singing hymns as a congregation, you don’t need to be entertained with a 3-ring circus.  True hymns include the Gospel message.  Most new songs that are sung as worship songs these days have no gospel message in them whatsoever. Saying Jesus 30 times doesn’t make it spiritual but telling people Jesus died for your sins just once can open a persons’ heart.  A true house of worship exposes false music entertainment performed in churches.  Once the false music doesn’t have a hold on the congregation, it becomes almost impossible for false teaching to follow.

Spiritual warfare comes in many forms, and one of them is by having houses of worship that perform better as an entertainment center.  It is in those places where a corrupted gospel can get a foothold into the church community.  Fix the houses of worship we have and design new ones as God always intended for us to have, and you can reduce the number of false teachers significantly. 

There is enough information here for you to figure out how to fix your church and get most of it correct.  By making this information freely accessible for existing churches, where they are determined to preach the Gospel, they can affordably upgrade their churches and add another roadblock to false teaching entering the church. Already hundreds of churches have taken the leap of faith, and all of them have seen and experienced dramatic change.  Trust the Bible, and you will expose your church to True Christian Worship, and you will join the other churches that are growing because of the Gospel, not in spite of the Gospel.

This battle cannot be fought alone.  With your help, pass this information onto other Christians and churches, we can put a dent in slowing down or stopping the ever-expanding plague of false churches around the world.  It becomes easier to preach Jesus and the full Gospel message the right way in large spaces when existing churches are transformed into acoustically friendly worship spaces.  Good acoustics is a big help in making God’s Word that much more effective. 

Pass this on.  It only takes a spark to make a difference.

Statement of Faith

Why does a sound consulting company on church sound have a statement of faith?

The sea of air between a person in a pew and a minister preaching the Gospel has many hidden obstacles that can undermine the efforts of a community from being a light in this world.  As Christians, this is our way of saying how seriously committed we are in making every house of worship a safe place where the Gospel can be presented as perfectly as possible.

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The Bible is God’s word: The Bible is inspired by the God through the Holy Spirit without error in the original 66 books. The Bible is our authority.

The Trinity: There is one God, eternally existent in three distinct Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ: I affirm the deity of Jesus Christ from before creation, through Him all things were created, (John 1:1-3). Jesus descended from Heaven became a man, lived a perfect life to become the perfect sin sacrifice to atone for all of our sins. When Jesus died on the cross, he died for all of us. when Jesus rose from the dead, He rose for all of us. He became the way, the truth and the path to everlasting life.

Salvation by grace alone: Salvation of all people is by grace alone through faith.  When a person recognizes their sins and sinful nature, when a person understands the purpose of the sacrifice Jesus made for all people,  repents, and chooses to be a follower of Jesus Christ, they become Born Again.  We become new creatures in Him.  By accepting Jesus as Lord, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us to guide you in a new life in a relationship with God.  By faith, we become another light in the world by example, as our love of God grows in our hearts, minds, and souls. 

Resurrection and judgment: All people are judged when they die. Those who are followers of Christ, their spirits go to heaven as Jesus told the thief on the cross. For those who do not know Jesus, there is a second judgement. Upon that judgement, their is both a resurrection and judgement where both the spirit and body will be sent to heaven or hell for eternity. Rev 20:11-15