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?

- “We look forward to worship every week.” I think this is true…and sad. Worship should be a part of our every day. I sing on our worship team and something our worship leader, Leon Beaudin, repeats time after time is that we can’t take people someplace we’ve never been.

- “When the music stinks, we yawn and wonder why the worship wasn’t very good.” I think we, as church communicators, so focused on engaging those who walk through our doors, can sometimes lose focus of the very simple fact that it is ALL about God.

Our challenge is to balance the need to engage people in worship while being sure to never getting in the way of worship.

Personally my challenge is to turn off critique mode long enough to allow myself to enter into true worship…even when the worship screen displays another cheesy ocean scene.