Using iPad in Church?

I stopped carrying a paper Bible about 2 years ago. I use Logos for my Bible, Notability for recording sermon notes, and Goodreader for preaching notes when I preach.  I must admit every once and a while I miss the paper Bible but over all the benefits have outweighed the negatives.

True. While I love my leather Bible, having everything in one device would be handy and a lot less to carry! :-)

Currently at church I carry ... note taking journal, ...

The iPad isn't the best for taking notes because you need a capacitive stylus and they are harder to write with.

My Samsung Note 8.0 on the other hand has an active Wacom digitizer and is great for taking notes.

You'll love the iPad for everything else.

Yeah, I had the Note II and it was a fun phone. Went back to iPhone since I went back to being a Mac/iOS guy. :-)

For taking notes, I was thinking of just typing them out. I'm a fast typist. Probably looks better than scribbling them out anyway. :-)

I'm just curious how many people are taking tablets to church over printed Bibles, journals, etc. It's another use case I'm wondering if I should jump on.

With notability I find writing with my finger to be very acceptable. I can also tke a screen shot of a passage and mark it up with arrows and lines connecting thoughts, then export it to pdf. My pastor usually has a sermon note page in the bulletin. I take a picture of it in notability and write on the note page so I don't have to write as much. It also comes with the benefit of being able to easily erase a mistake and adding color for distinction.

Sounds interesting. What's the iTunes Store link to that? It is true that the basic outline is already in my bulletin each week, so this sounds like a fun concept to try.

I use the iPad in Church all the time.

Admittedly most of the time I am preaching and it would look odd if I started taking notes.

When I am not preaching I try to concentrate on the sermon by giving it my full attention.

That would look odd. :-)

I do concentrate on the sermon as well and give it my full attention, but I like to take notes to remember what the preacher is saying long term. Always great to look over my notes throughout the week and really remember the applications.

I use a Logitech keyboard case for typing notes in church. It's a lot faster for me than the on-screen keyboard. I used to use a lower quality keyboard, but the keys were mushy, resulting in errors that made it no faster than the on-screen keyboard.

I've thought about those as well. Side question: Why use a keyboard case+tablet over say a MacBook Air? That's a concept I've been wondering about what the benefits are.

Why use a keyboard case+tablet over say a MacBook Air? That's a concept I've been wondering about what the benefits are.

The tablet+keyboard combo works well if you want a tablet most of the time. Sunday morning is really the only time I use my iPad with a keyboard. The rest of the time I have the smart cover on it. The iPad is still smaller and lighter than a MBA, plus it has built in LTE.

Good idea about swapping cases around. True about the iPad being smaller than MBA and built in cellular. Not sure if our church has Wi-Fi, so that is another plus (I'm getting an iPad Air with built-in cellular and on T-Mobile with the free data plan).