Sermon Notes Revisited
I didn’t think much of it for the last year and a half, but lately I have gotten a lot of feedback on the way we do the teaching graphics at Impact Church. I am always on the lookout for a better more innovative way to do everything and teaching graphics are no exception.
At Impact Church We don’t do the typical bullet point teaching notes. Before we launched Impact, we spent the better part of six months cruising around southern California seeing what other churches were doing. One Sunday we attended North Coast Churches Vista campus. They are a multi site church and this was one of their video venues. I remembered two things from that visit. First off Dave Mustaine was there, which was cool, and second, the teaching slides. They were doing a series called ‘Mark It Up’, in reference to making notes in your Bible.
So we ran with it and we have been doing teaching slides like this ever since.
We all know that some peoples spiritual journey rises and falls on the ‘fill in the blank’ sermon notes, so we have some of those too, but this is the backbone of the teaching notes. This accomplishes a few things. First it creates proactive use of your Bible. We value people bringing their Bible to church and I think most churches do. But then people get wise to the fact that you project the passage on a screen and they end up not opening their Bible, and eventually stop bringing it. It also creates notes that people will keep. Normally after filling out the ‘fill in the blank’ notes sheet it gets thrown out. People tend to hang on to their Bible and next time they cruise that scripture, they will have some good notes to reference.
It’s not perfect, but it is fresh and our congregation digs it. Yeah it’s a little sloppy, but isn’t that real? If you want some more examples, hit me up and I’ll hook you up.
I would love to get a hold of some more of your outline stuff like this. I am really intrigued. I am the teaching pastor for our third multi-site location at a church in the Dallas, TX area and am really digging this mind set. Let me know. Thanks.
Trevor DeVage
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I fell in love with the graphics when I visited you guys last spring…and again when I was there in Nov. What is it, and were do you get it? Hit me up with a link or something.
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Everything is custom done by the creative team.
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Found your site off of ragamuffins. Great site! You’ve been blog rolled my friend.
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I love this!
I think my pastor would too. What is the best way to get this info to him? I am sure he gets tons of e-mails everyday and I really want this one to get through to him.
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Trevor;
I tried emailing you back, but the email doesn’t work…hit me up and and I can get you set up
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This is awesome! I would love some examples on this – and anything cool you have done! Seems like you have your stuff together!
Terry
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