Jesus Hates Papyrus » powerpoint http://jesushatespapyrus.com helping the church become the most creative place on the planet. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:33:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 There’s the Seth Godin I love. http://jesushatespapyrus.com/communicating/theres-the-seth-godin-i-love/ http://jesushatespapyrus.com/communicating/theres-the-seth-godin-i-love/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:30:47 +0000 Michael Buckingham http://jesushatespapyrus.com/?p=179 I know most of you don’t look at Sunday morning as a presentation…and it certainly is much more than just a presentation, but you are presenting the word of God and Seth Godin has some great advice for those presentations that you give every Sunday morning.

I’d like to highlight #4 on his list of approaches (but do check out the whole entry):

4. Powerpoint or Keynote, but with no bullets, just emotional pictures and stories.

That gigantic screen behind you isn’t to regurgitate what you just said. Sure, it can be helpful to put up a scripture, etc. but it can be used for so much more. Forget trying to make everything start with the same letter, or a fancy acrostic…use that space to engage your listener visually. Would you watch TV if they just printed the script line by line? Not a chance, so let’s not do the same thing Sunday morning.

What are you doing to make your Sunday morning presentation of Christ engaging?

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