Comments on: Open Source Sermon Retrospective

By: Larry Rathbun

Larry Rathbun — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01:49 +0000

Nick – Nov. 22, 2008
As a practicing christian, Im fascinated by the obvious attempt of mainline organized religions, specifically liturgical branches, to grapple with embracing the new media to “transform” those people who have a “church memory” but have retreated from traditional services.
Here in the Dallas Fort-Worth area of Texas, we have a champion dealing with METAPHOR as the link between expectations for the delivery of a Sunday sermon to visual literates, (expecting nothing less than a polished delivery, just short of a professional theatrical performance), and the pastor who wants those with vested intersts in the delivery to “contribute”…His website is Midnight Oil Productions.
My personal response is to write movies that encompass many of the themes the Church would spread, and do so in a movie as “entertainment”,when in fact, the theme has been spread. Nic, give your gift of time and effort for as long as you can. It is my heartfelt prayer that all who are reaching for a tool to share our experiences will find it. – God’s Peace be with you! – Larry R.

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By: Andon

Andon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:54 +0000

I say do it again, although you could do it somewhat differently.

Rather than having it a full-blown sermon, you could do something for your Youth Group. From what I saw there, your ‘Senior’ group would probably like to help plan one of their own sessions, and you could have other people’s views in there as well. It wouldn’t even have to be a sermon, it could be a simple, short lesson or the whole youth group time – Planning what to do, when to do it, etc.

By: ruhama

ruhama — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:04:25 +0000

I would recommend trying it again, especially since some of the bugs could be worked out and more folks easily participate. It would be interesting to see if it can be done in a shorter timespan, too.

I mentioned this project in Sunday school last week and the group thought it was a cool idea, though I mostly talked about the subject matter, not the process. We’re currently studying 1 Cor, so I had emailed the leader with the final sermon.

By: Christy Tucker

Christy Tucker — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:26:37 +0000

If you decide to do a wiki for anything in the future, check out wikispaces.org. That’s what I’ve been using for most of the classes I develop; it works well for small group projects. It’s also open source and has a WYSIWYG editor. I’ve used Wetpaint for several sites in the past too, with mixed results. Several facilitators have commented that they prefer Wikispaces.

This was an interesting project. Glad I was able to make my little contribution and that it turned out so well.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:20:16 +0000

Glad you felt things went well for you. I would have liked to have been more part of the process but time….