.:Callouses
I haven't played guitar seriously for well over a year. It's one of those things that I almost forgot I knew how to do. It's not as though I've forgotten I could, but more the experience and the feel of what comes with it was relegated to an almost lost memory. I forgot how cathartic creating music was. How I used to sit with my guitar and play the same four chords in different patterns until my fingers couldn't take it. It was almost a form of Worship (not of the guitar or the music).
Makes me wonder what else I might have forgotten...
.:Evangelizing
I was thinking about one of my new favorite films: The Fall.
This was a film shot over 4 years in 28 different countries. A lot of love was put into this beautiful, breathtaking film. A lot of time and money as well... Worldwide boxoffice... $3.3m... now remember that half of that goes to the theaters...
...peanuts.
So I've been telling people about this beautiful little movie. And most of the people I tell about it haven't heard about it, obviously. Then I started to think about 1st century Christians... They had something exciting, something beautiful... something a lot of people hadn't heard about.
Now think about a new movie that already has a lot of marketing out there. Every fifth commercial is an ad for this movie... there are billboards, posters, t-shirts... maybe even bumper stickers... Based on a non-word-of-mouth thing... you've heard of this movie.
Isn't that a little like Christianity today? People may or may not have experienced it, but they've definitely heard of it and have most likely formed an opinion on it (like you might have after having seen a trailer or commercial).
Nothing particularly deep here... just the idea of bringing something new to people that haven't heard of a movie or faith... versus bringing up something that someone already has some sort of contact, even if it is nothing more than hearing they need it without any sort of personal attachment involved...
vcD,
-R
Makes me wonder what else I might have forgotten...
.:Evangelizing
I was thinking about one of my new favorite films: The Fall.
This was a film shot over 4 years in 28 different countries. A lot of love was put into this beautiful, breathtaking film. A lot of time and money as well... Worldwide boxoffice... $3.3m... now remember that half of that goes to the theaters...
...peanuts.
So I've been telling people about this beautiful little movie. And most of the people I tell about it haven't heard about it, obviously. Then I started to think about 1st century Christians... They had something exciting, something beautiful... something a lot of people hadn't heard about.
Now think about a new movie that already has a lot of marketing out there. Every fifth commercial is an ad for this movie... there are billboards, posters, t-shirts... maybe even bumper stickers... Based on a non-word-of-mouth thing... you've heard of this movie.
Isn't that a little like Christianity today? People may or may not have experienced it, but they've definitely heard of it and have most likely formed an opinion on it (like you might have after having seen a trailer or commercial).
Nothing particularly deep here... just the idea of bringing something new to people that haven't heard of a movie or faith... versus bringing up something that someone already has some sort of contact, even if it is nothing more than hearing they need it without any sort of personal attachment involved...
vcD,
-R