More often than not a certain degree of clarity is often missing between people that create media for the church and people that lead and pastor the church. I have run into this predicament on more than one occasion and have found that one of the reasons this happens is that both parties unintentionally fail to be painfully clear before the production of a media project. I recently heard Bill Hybels speak on this issue of clarity in which he mentioned the line “just to be clear” when talking with others on exactly what is going to be done. I’m slowly in the process of using this line “just to be clear” after discussing a project. After discussing a project I am about to create I will say “just to be clear” I am going to do this and create that and it will help you accomplish your specific goal by doing this.
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I recently finished reading Andy Stanley’s the Principle of the Path and decided that this principle really had a lot to do with my approach to being creative. As a video producer I am constantly trying to be creative in the way I write, shoot or edit videos. Not all the time, but sometimes I feel I lack in creativity and usually this is because I am not on a path.
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Last year in a post I wrote about creating transitional statements when incorporating video into worship services. I felt a need to write about this again because this is something our church has failed to do and I know others must be wrestling with this as well. The idea behind creating a transitional statement is [...]
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In the New Testament Jesus gives us the command to go and make disciples. 1 Thess 2:8 says that our desire was to share not only the gospel but our lives as well. Discipleship is a foundational relational process and in my opinion is the most time-consuming, inconvenient and messy part of the Christian Life. [...]
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Recently I have been doing a lot or re-thinking and reading about discipleship. Last month I read organic disciplemaking which I thoroughly enjoyed how it spoke about discipleship as a highly creative process. Most recently I finished transforming discipleship which includes a triad model that I believe is revolutionary to say the least. Both [...]
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