I recently read an article by John Ortberg titled People of the Book. Love the way John writes and speaks! Thought I'd share a few things that made my synapses fire in new ways.
Here are some wordbytes:
"I was at a conference recently on generosity, and I asked a man who works full time with churches in the area of stewardship what typifies generous churches. His immediate response: 'They have generous senior pastors'."
"Suffering causes people to ask questions like no other force in the world. It snaps the threads of our illusions of control and sufficiency."
"We get so used to the Bible, we miss its edginess. The prophets were the original street performance artists. What they did was much more like radical street theater than it was like a church service."
"If I'm honest, what holds me back is not lack of creativity. It's lack of urgency. I don't think the main force that drove the prophets was creativity for creativity's sake. I think it was spiritual reality. There was such a desperate awareness of the need for God to come fix things up that it drove them to do anything to make space people's awareness for God.
"The teachers I most learn from often find non-verbal ways to drive home what they are teaching."
"People don't care what I know. They care about what I'm learning."
Here are some wordbytes:
"I was at a conference recently on generosity, and I asked a man who works full time with churches in the area of stewardship what typifies generous churches. His immediate response: 'They have generous senior pastors'."
"Suffering causes people to ask questions like no other force in the world. It snaps the threads of our illusions of control and sufficiency."
"We get so used to the Bible, we miss its edginess. The prophets were the original street performance artists. What they did was much more like radical street theater than it was like a church service."
"If I'm honest, what holds me back is not lack of creativity. It's lack of urgency. I don't think the main force that drove the prophets was creativity for creativity's sake. I think it was spiritual reality. There was such a desperate awareness of the need for God to come fix things up that it drove them to do anything to make space people's awareness for God.
"The teachers I most learn from often find non-verbal ways to drive home what they are teaching."
"People don't care what I know. They care about what I'm learning."
6 Comments:
Like that quote about "radical street theater." Been studying Ezekiel, and, while I generally shudder when the "drama team" hits the stage, I would be all eyes and ears if they acted out Ez. 4 and the first part of 5. Sat in on your session at Exponential and appreciate your candor and genuine heart for Jesus, family, and ministry.
Good stuff... thanks for sharing!
That was a great article, thank you for sharing it. I feel that many times creativity is stressed for creativity's sake, which cuts God out of the picture. Great post.
Good stuff. I'd normally never go to Christianity Today, thanks for the tip. :)
Wow! Very convicting. Thanks so much for sharing Mark.
Pastor Mark,
Melange in musical sounds has the same meaning and usage as collage in artwork.
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