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UPDATE: Alan has provided some links to this church in the comments. You can see a biography for this guy here.
But actually I only have to go to church in Queensland...
Amazing... I promise when you come to our church you will be able to at least follow the preacher.
HT to Nathan where i saw this first...
This is amazing...
HT Mikey
I've seen this video in a couple of places recently and it got me thinking... (watch the video below before continuing).
"Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.
Anyway, it got me thinking a few things. But mainly I thought it was a reminder that if we're striving for creativity and relevance and freshness in our services (which we may or may not be) then we actually need to do better than simply modernising the liturgy and dressing cooler. We should also avoid copying another churches culture into our services (i.e. lets meet like Hillsong because they are large).
How do you work out ways of worshiping as a community, particularly of young people, that are relevant and culturally contextualised to your group?
I cannot even understand how someone would arrive at the idea that the KJV is the only Bible that God approves of? It makes no sense. The Bible wasn't written in English therefore it must always be translated. 500 year old English sucks for 12 year old kids and most 25-50 year old adults, so why not update the translation from the original languages as many have done? They even admit in the video that they think other Bibles are ok in other languages... One word: stupid. I'll be keen to see if the book burning BBQ grew their church to 15 members or more!
I didn't really like this. I actually thought Driscoll at times sounded like the complaining boy he was absolutely destroying on stage. He took about 15mins to make one point.
I'm just not sure belittling is the way forward for a pastor to encourage his flock to grow in Godliness...
Having said that, he got better in the last 5-7mins.
I saw this at Koorong in Hobart once. It's almost as bad as Sunday School Musical!
See the hompage
This video gives you a small glimpse of the power and devastation of the recent Tsunami in the pacific. CRAZY!
Here are some statistics about the digital world we now live in to blow your mind!!
HT to Michael Hyatt
Watch these 4 videos of Seth Godin speaking on things that matter in today's society. (HT to Doozy)
Mark Seaby (West Coast player) must be a Christian. Cool. Good to know there are some Christians in the AFL who are standing up for Jesus.
HT to Wayne Field
HT to Youth Ministry Geek
The conversion of C.S. Lewis from CPX on Vimeo.
Saw this video of a new Regina Spektor song, Laughing with over on Josh Harris' blog. It's an interesting song with interesting words. If you can't understand the lyrics from listening to the song, they are on Josh's blog.
So you're thinking WHAT? How can you claim the first and do the second. Well apparently it can be done.
I went home for lunch a couple of days ago. I turned the TV on and watched 5 mins of a show called "The View".
One of the women on this show says:
I read a quote that said your goal is to be a true disciple of Jesus (the aforementioned Lord) and also of Mother Teressa helping the poor and hungry. I also heard you're posing for playboy, do you think Mother Teressa would have done that?
Heidi Montag replies by basically admitting she's done it and it will be tasteful and that's ok for a 'modern' version of Mother Teressa... I hope her Pastor saw this and lovingly corrects her.
It's about 2:25 mins in on this video.
Few things make me laugh out loud. This video did. He starts by asking them to take their shoes of like Moses did so nothing is separating them from the Holy Place of God (I thought Jesus did that?) and then South Park style replaces the word 'baby' for 'Jesus' in a medley of secular songs. A must watch!!
