OK, here’s a post from the “Ideas That Didn’t Quite Work” file. We had a message entitled “Leftovers” – it was a great message, with a great object lesson as part of it. As might be expected, we thought “Hey, let’s use leftovers in a fridge as the look for the day.” Great in theory, but I broke one of the important rules of church production: “Consider your camera shots.”
The look was effective when no one was on the stage – if a little gross. It had the effect we were looking for, shall we say. However, during the actual sermon, the look behind the preaching pastor was so “busy” that it was a distraction. There was too much going on from a visual standpoint, and it made to difficult to see the various items that he was interacting with during the message. Plus, the scaling was off – it just looks weird when you have 10-foot wide containers of chicken wings behind your preacher…
Hmmm - well, let's see...
I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
You can head over to my Instagram site for an abundance of shorter posts: creativeworshipideas. If you're looking for consulting - especially on weekend services, team leadership or multi-site strategies - I'd love to help. Just message me here, and I'll be in touch - Greg
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