When did we lose the plot?
I have been at the Echo Conference this week and a common theme that surfaced was story. More specifically, the God story.
The question that keeps coming up in the conversations is; why has the ‘C’hurch failed at telling the story with quality, especially in the mass media realm?
I have come to a conclusion on this thought…for now at least.
The Church has struggled to bring quality to the story because we fail to trust the fact that God IS telling the story already, we’re just here to be used by him.
This causes the Church to feel the pressure to make sure peripheral doctrines of our theology are included when we tell the story in film, music, literature and other mediums regardless of how it effects the quality.
bingo. The story is his. It takes time for us to learn how to drop our pathetic stories and start living and telling his. It takes humility and constant repentance. I can tell you personally the quicker that I got that, the quicker my life started to make sense and mean something.
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@James // the rubber really does hit the road when it comes to our own story and interaction with our community. good thoughts dude.
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Right on, Vince. I think that we dilute the plot, cover the plot, forget the plot, berate the plot… because we get to caught up in the characters = ourselves. Obsession with character development diminishes who God is!
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i keep re-reading this line
"telling the story with quality, especially in the mass media realm?"
here is my thought; the problem with quality is it seems to me that the "C"hurch has approached media via the "pop" or "popular" method. meaning, pop style music, popular style video, you name it.
last i checked, most Pop music (regardless of style) is terrible. ok, flip over to the Christian version on your dial and wow, look music that is emulating the other music on the dial, and wow, its terrible.
so, that leads me to my question: doesn't the most powerful movements in history begin as grassroot movements?
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just a thought… mass media? its dying, so we need to move on from that unless we are invested there like TBN
the story of God is revealed in us… so our testimony (story) is vital. I think the issue is that we are too caught up in the mediums and not enough in community or relationships. when community is real, stories are told…even with a cheesy medium
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