Setting up chairs on Saturday night before Easter, my mind was flooded with ideas. I just want to write them down before I forget.
-Pointless Church - once a month (or whatever we could do... quarterly), we have a Sunday evening Service that is completely drama driven. In a sense, pointless... that it isn't a sermon at all. My picture is that it is two guys talking about life, maybe other characters too.
-Music -- I still get that picture of people playing music here, developing their skills, and writing songs. Maybe we could record here.
-I would love for Crossover to become a place for dramatic arts, music, local needs, and global needs. Kid ministries rather than being separate, might become part of the whole set of needs.
-One Sunday evening a month has to become Vision/Finance Team meeting.
-For those who like to sing more worship songs, the band should start ten minutes early. I'm pretty sure we could put a Quick Message on Song Show Plus that says, "You aren't late. We just started singing early!" or something like that.
For some reason, I have more hope tonight than I've had for a while. It feels good.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
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Those are some good ideas Brian, but I'm wondering in what way the first idea would be "pointless"? Do you mean that it would be an unscripted drama - sort of improv? I guess I'm not quite getting the concept.
Anyhow, let us know how it goes if you try to implement any of these ideas.
Leonard Sweet had a book that talked about how sermons 300 years ago sometimes had 50 or more points. Through the years, we trimmed it down to 3 points. Now we just need the big idea - 1 point. Sweet was talking about preaching conversationally, and that his wife began saying, "Sweet, your sermons are pointless!" Play on words.
Oh, got it. Thanks. :)
I guess I should finally get around to reading Sweet. The cheezy titles of his books (and excessive use of confusing metaphors) have kept me from really getting into his stuff.
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