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Permalink Reply by Logan Wang on April 6, 2009 at 12:53pm

Hi Ashlee. I love your photo. I like Sally's idea because you say that what you want to do is "take people on a journey to understand what worship is all about." I think Sally's idea would work awesome to engage the people at the two churches. Make them uncomfortable, entertained, enlightened, etc. Good stuff. If you can find a Bible story to perform in this way, I think it would be a great journey piece.

Here's another idea: Read the same Bible passage three times, but with greatly different styles. One person could do a high church, mighty rendition using massive words and lots of flair. Another could do it absolutely boring, no emotion. The third can read it with meaning and reverence. Or maybe you choose three different verses or passages. The point would be to engage people in a listening journey that would point out the many ways we approach God.

If you can manipulate the space you are in, and you are serving good, hot coffee, I would create a controlled line that people would have to enter before getting their coffee. Almost like a museum tour, you could place signs along the way asking, "why are you entering this space - for good, hot coffee? For an experience of taste? Smell? Do you come to worship with the same expectation?" Obviously you would need to write more than that, but you get the idea. Something like that would be cool, but wouldn't really break up a lot of time.

Maybe you could get a 7 year old kid to read some Psalms about worship. That would be awesome too.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Sines on April 6, 2009 at 9:37pm

Here is a worship concept that our group explored two weeks ago. It was inspired by the blog written by Jodi-Renee Adams (103 run-ins . . .) and a "Auto-Bike-ography" written by Trent Cresswell, a 17yr old, turned 18 in-a-coma, who discovered God in the re-piecing of his life.

We started with six volunteers. One at a time, they viewed an item and the audience had a chance to question them in 20 question style about the object they saw/felt. The "item" was my son's truck . . . actually--parts . . . and each volunteer viewed a different aspect of the truck, but they thought they were all seeing the same thing. A fan, a brake line, a hose with clamp, a gas filter and a large beach towel. (yes, it is part of his truck! My son uses the towel to cover the large hole around his stick shifter to keep out the noise and fumes). The audience became very confused! So many conflicting? descriptions! What was this thing???!!?

Then I read the poem by John Godfrey Saxe about six blind men and their description of an elephant. Like a wall--like a snake--like a rope--like a fan--like a spear--like a pillar.

I shared the blog by Jodi-Renee Adams and the story of Trent Creswell and gave the opportunity for the group to write their own "run-ins" with God and then I read selected contributions from the audience.
Worship in context with Ephesians 1 (v. 7-10+).

What does God look like? We each see and experience a different aspect/facet of God in our lives each week. Every day a new glimpse.

Worship. Coming together as a community of faith and sharing our current stories helps all of us as we explore who this really big God is. Bigger than the understanding of one person, one denomination, one culture.

God speaks. God moves. God is beautiful.
we respond. we create. we worship.

we worship.

Holy, Holy, Holy,
God the Father,
God the Son,
God the Holy Spirit,
One God,
My God,
My All.

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Permalink Reply by Jinger Wadel on May 14, 2009 at 1:26pm

Linda, Hello....my name is Jinger and I am Trent Creswell's mom. I can't tell you how touched I am that you used Trent's Auto-Bike-Ography as a topic. This was a life changing event for Trent and our family. We thank God everyday for Trent's life and the lives this story touches each day.

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Permalink Reply by Jinger Wadel on May 14, 2009 at 1:26pm

Jinger Wadel said:

Linda, Hello....my name is Jinger and I am Trent Creswell's mom. I can't tell you how touched I am that you used Trent's Auto-Bike-Ography as a topic. This was a life changing event for Trent and our family. We thank God everyday for Trent's life and the lives this story touches each day.

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