Visual Worship in China

Meet “Biscuet “. Biscuet’s a Visual Worshiper. And Biscuet lives in CHINA.

I like China. It’s starting to grow on me. Today starts my 2nd journey (and Nate’s 3rd) to China, so it seems only appropriate that we talk about what “visual worship” looks like in China.

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with fellow visual worshipers lately, and one thing I’ve been wanting to do is include you guys in on that dialogue somehow. So Biscuet and I got on iChat and I hit the record button….and what happened next was exciting. So here is what I hope to be the first of many video interviews discussing the multi-faceted concept of “visual worship”. (the video was almost 40 minutes long, so i cut it down to 9-10 minutes for all of you ADD people like me out there…but a little further down, i’ve posted the full length interview.)

I highly recommend watching the full length video when you get a chance. Biscuet goes into a lot more detail on his experiences in the Chinese Church and what visual worship looks like there. A lot of what he said moved my heart and started messing with my head. Some of what we talk about might frustrate you, but hopefully it will inspire you. But the point for me in doing this is NOT to impress upon you or convince you of what I think to be right or wrong, but to instigate a dialogue in your own heart… to cause you to take a few steps back and look at the bigger picture… to evaluate if you are allowing yourself room in your worship experiences for God to reveal Himself in a new and fresh way.

To make it easier, I put chapter markers on the full length video. and if you download the video from my Vimeo site and play it in QuickTime, you’ll see the chapter markers in the playback area. But if you want to skim through this long video, then here’s the timecode for the chapers:

0:11 – Introducing Biscuet

4:12 – What is “visual worship”?

7:54 – Biscuet: a Visual Worshiper

11:12 – the Chinese Church

15:00 – Production & the Chinese Church

17:45 – Biscuet’s Shifting Perspective

20:31 – My Shifting Perspective: Visual Silence

24:26 – Visual Worship in China

27:29 – My Response

33:14 – The Heart of the Visual Worshiper

35:13 – A Great Spiritual Awakening

37:10 – Conclusion

There is a very missional purpose behind Nate’s & my journey to China this week. From the very beginning of Grateful Inconvenience , we decided that we would hold any ministry/missions opportunity in equal standing with any business/profit-making opportunity. It is very inconvenient at times, but the gratefulness is far beyond what i could comprehend…hence, our company name. We’ve been invited to go to an event called Call2All , taking place in Hong Kong. We will be doing a myriad of jobs in the realm of video production, including VJ-ing and also sitting on a panel discussion on Visual Media & Worship in the 21st Century. After the conference, we will be heading up north to Tieling with a team from Call2All to do some more unusual work.

I plan to tweet and blog as much as I can while I’m there about what’s going on; the Flip Mino HD is charged up!

Please be praying for both Nate and me, as int’l traveling always has it’s curve-balls: physically, culturally and spiritually.

“Shi Shi”!!