In another post Cojak mentioned a plexiglass podium. This got the ole timer to thinkin (which as you boys know, can sometimes be controversial) bout which model/method/style/paradigm/etc of preaching/teaching is the most effective.In your opinion, which of the following model/methods/styles/paradigms/etc is the most cutting edge, cool, relevant and missional way to present the gospel and communicate truth to a 21st audience:1. Little round table with a bottle of water settin on it, an a stool fer the speaker to set on.
To be really cutting edge today, you gotta have one of these:www.displays2go.com/P-4276/Truss-Lectern-Features-Unique-Curved-Design?utm_source=google.pla&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GooglePLA&gclid=CNybvvWuycoCFdgcgQod7u0PSg
I must say one of the most missional services I have been in was a 4SQ church in Salt lake City. With young eager folks sitting around a young pastor who was sitting on a stool at a small round podium or table and giving a discourse on Salvation. One of the best I have encountered, considering the location, and the audience background. I sat spell bound as these folk were eager to LEARN. This pastor may not have turned any old LDS folk’s heads, but he was turning heads and I think lives as he TAUGHT. I sat thinking, this is something like Jesus did. It had never impacted me before how important it was to GET THE POINT across without the normal PREACHING I was used to. It is important for the audience to UNDERSTAND. I think he had a cup of coffee, but I never saw him taste it after the first few minutes. Imma thinking it got cold. ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
OTCP – this ranting on missional congregations doesn’t make sense.The world has changed since I grew up.There are now numerous folks that have no idea about a basic knowledge of Christianity. When I grew up – even the sinners understood about sin and such.Now – there is a huge vacuum.These newer congregations are simply filling that vacuum in a new way.One isn’t better or worse than another.Get a grip________________
You don’t need a fancy podium. What you need is: a desk next to a co-worker, a check out counter at a store, a street corner where people gather, a class room in the local high school, a coffee house where college kids gather, a break room, a fence in a back yard, the internet, facebook, twitter, a fishing lake with your kids/grandkids, text messaging, the local hang out…………………
I think the problem comes when one is attempting to be cool and they’re not cool. If people would just be themselves, it comes across so much better.
right on Eddie! (Travis is cool!) ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Mr Robbins,Would Kevin Wallace or Travis Johnson make a great next GO________________
Thirty years ago, the plexiglass podium was cutting edge.My verdict: plexiglass podium is passestool is coolI have no idea what would be cutting edge. I live in world which constantly astounds me with what is considered the newest popular thing. What’s old is new, and maybe old fashioned heavy wood pulpits will come back around.
I wish you’d quit using the word missional when being negative. Obviously there is no understanding attached to the word when one lumps it in with a sarcastic tone.As an individual that has been in the center of the missional movement for the last six years I would invite you to read some of the basic missional movement works before jumping to conclusions.Start Here:The Forgotten Ways – HirschCreating a Missional Culture – WoodwardSurprise the World – FrostThe Road to Missional – FrostThe Shaping of Things to Come – Frost/HirschThanks…all the best________________Live an epiK life!Discover More…www.refocusing.orgA Mission in Formationwww.bluewaterinthekeys.com
I think the buzz should be Matched Impedance. In the electrical world devices with matched impedance’s transfer power more efficiently. If these guys impedance’s were matched equally with their recipients the total power received would be much better thus having greater results.
Not at all, Miss Bonnie. Here is perfect OTCP Matched Impedance:www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Wl2ZdfITU
Phil, here is where you misunderstand. The ole timer IS NOT being negative. Nor is there a sarcastic tone.One thing I do smile about when I hear the word missional (a word I readily use myself) is that when the term began to be used in reference to a movement, so many jumped on it as though it was a new concept, a new discovery, a revelation no previous generation had been given. Now that is funny.
bonnie knox said:
Wow, then I will be cutting edge You already cutting edge, D. Don’t let em fellers in em skimpy skinny jeans tell ya no different.
Not at all, Miss Bonnie. Here is perfect OTCP Matched Impedance:www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Wl2ZdfITUWatch especially the 5-minute guitar solo beginning at 4:50. You boys listen to Pink Floyd in Pikeville? Dude, I owe you an apology for judging you… I had you pegged as a Conway and Dolly fan! ________________Proverbs 3:5-6; John 13:34-35; Acts 1:8
Not at all, Miss Bonnie. Here is perfect OTCP Matched Impedance:www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Wl2ZdfITUWatch especially the 5-minute guitar solo beginning at 4:50. You boys listen to Pink Floyd in Pikeville? Dude, I owe you an apology for judging you… I had you pegged as a Conway and Dolly fan!
But, IF you read the voices of this movement you ALWAYS hear them say it is a RETURN, a re-engagement with the original call and NEVER a new move of the Spirit. Hence, the seminal book that spawned a lot of the ‘talk’ which is entitled THE