Last weekend I taught at Soul Survivor's Mini Festival. I used a loop of Joshua Longbrake's photo series 'I Am The Church' and started with a new presentation I'm currently developing on what God is doing in Europe. In this presentation we base jump from Rio's Christ statue and then hoover over several nations in Europe. Because we had only one hour, I sticked to North-West Europe, but of course there are also exciting developments in the South and East of our continent. The weekend was also good to reconnect with the Soul Survivor board and team, and with Jim Yost from Indonesia who taught on simple church, Luke 10 and out-of-the-box organic ministry among the poor, prisoners, prostitutes, Muslims, and what else.
Btw, today I found the 'I Am The Church' series on YouTube, put on a Sigur Ros track. Check it out. And here's another version.
Hmmm...it's not that I think we need a building in a certain shape. It's not that we need a guy in a black dress as far as I'm concerned. It's not that we need a certain liturgy to be church. But I would say we need one another to be church. The exclusive combination of 'I' and 'church' in this video...hmmm...
Posted by: Martijn | November 12, 2007 at 18:41
By the way, if your presentation with the base jump is finished...I'd really like to see it. :-) Both for it's style as it's content...
Posted by: Martijn | November 12, 2007 at 19:11
The purpose is clear: the many I's make up We the church. It's meant to help people OWN it.
Posted by: Marc | November 12, 2007 at 20:13
funny you used those pictures - i was surprised to see 2 of my friends show up in there!
Posted by: Suzanne | November 14, 2007 at 17:50