Powerful Words

I was flying to LA this past weekend to spend some time with a tech team at a church wanting to move towards being a “visual worship team”. As I was flying, I was catching up on some reading in COLLIDE Magazine…a magazine I HIGHLY recommend any one interested in media, worship, and pop culture subscribe to. These are some notes and quotes that I wrote down that I thought were very timely. ———————————-
- don’t let technology INTERRUPT or ENTERTAIN
- Technology should enhance community rather than replace it. It should increase interaction, not decrease it.
- “The Church has really been postured to be an enemy of the creative process b/c you can’t control it and b/c the message isn’t always as linear. The irony is that we wonder why there are no artisans in our church.” – Erwin McManus
- Don’t react & respond to culture, we should be creating culture.
- See beyond the media to the message.
- “Excellence is when media becomes a transparent aspect of the service & not the focal point.” – Mike Apple
- “The greatest failure of media artisans occurs when many people ‘look on and admire without understanding.’” (Schaeffer, The God Who Is There, 33)
- Visual media should focus our people towards the One True God.

- “Ultimately, our motivation for excellence in artistic expression supersedes philosophy, is grounded in theology, and is expressed as worship.” – Scott McClellan

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On a side note, I just added a great blog to the blogroll. Already Been Chewed is a design blog by the designer for COLLIDE Magazine.