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The Gospel Is More than Information

You may be using presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint) and projection to enhance the worship experience(s) of your church. Or, you may be planning to start. Great! There is much that you can do with this technology.

Your projection of announcements, mission videos, and sermon points use this technology to help those in worship experience and hopefully assimilate a great deal of information.

Don't stop there!

You have heard and used some of the following phrases: "Faith is as much 'caught' as it is taught." "We are more than logical creatures." "Jesus spoke in parables." "'Word Pictures' help the hearer understand and experience God's truth." "We are both right-brained and left-brained creatures."

There is much more that you can do with your projections than convey information. Bulleted points are only a fraction of the possibilities. Informational videos add another fraction. But, "If you say it all with words, you miss the point." (Growing Spiritual Redwoods, Bandy and Easum)

Publishers are marketing products such as IWorship DVDs, a"one-of-a-kind" multimedia experience. Footage of beautiful natural phenomena of God's creation are synchronized with various styles of music.

According to WorshipMusic.com, "It's worship music that goes beyond the listening experience into the participatory realm."

You do not have to purchase presentations such as these. You can make your own.

Send members of your worship team and others on "camera safaris" gathering a host of non-copyrighted pictures and video that you can assemble into a library. Add to this library music from the public domain, your own compositions, and other music you have license to use. Gather pictures of art and drawings. "Catch people in the act" of service rather than just a "pose" of the group serving! (Get their permission to use their photographed and/or videographed images and voice.)

Use the audio and visual resources you have collected as background and accompaniment for scripture, announcement, and sermon points. Their presence will provide even more of an ambience conducive for worship. Greater partipation and assimilation of the experience will be gained. At one church which was celebrating their 50th anniversary, the music director and team used pictures of nature as the congregation sang "Shout to the Lord." What an awesome experience! What an awesome God we serve!

Tell the Greatest Story ever Told...Digitally!

Additional information on this site

Suggested Reading: Digital Storytellers, Len Wilson and Jason Moore (ISBN # 0-687-05213-0)

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