Since we started Harvest, we have been using movie clips to illustrate truths we were teaching. Some have been great.
Some have been flat out 'duds'.
I have to be honest: I am getting pretty well "clipped out". In this season, I am looking for something more than 'that was cute' to lead into our messages.
This past Monday, I came into our Creative Team meeting and announced that I was 'clipped out', and that we needed to try to do something more 'visceral', more cut-to-the-bone,......something more organic and original.
What was cool was that immediately, Jennifer, who leads our Harvest Actors Guild :), piped up and said that the Lord has been stirring her as well and she is writing, writing, writing away for series we have upcoming! Very, very cool indeed....!
We will of course have to use clips for the God @ The Box Office series next month, but after that, we are going to give it a rest and do live stuff. This morning, I read this quote from John Ortberg that really sealed it for me:
"We get so used to the Bible, we miss its edginess. The prophets were the original street performance artists. What they did was much more like radical street theater than it was like a church service."
We HAVE to go here...!!! :) Pray for Jennifer and her stable of actors/actresses. We are believing for anointing in this realm, that like the prophets of old, cut to the core and provoke people to LISTEN TO GOD.
To the future..!
PB