I was just thinking about all of the wonderful things notofworks has shown us about how to be revelent, cool, and hip in the world today and I thought it might be good to start a thread where we can each testify as to how notofworks example has inspired us in our own lives or ministries.
I just thought notofworks was one of those "thinking outside of the box" kind of guys when he shared how he no longer spends time during the week preparing for sermons but rather more wisely spends that time with folks then prepares his Sunday sermon on Sunday morning.
I was still thinking he was just thinking "outside the box" when he started a thread stating he would appoint an avowed agnostic to his church board and be proud to do it.
All of the other things here and there like preaching in jeans rather than a suit, being a social and political liberal, etc all still just spoke to me "outside the box"
However one of his latest posts moved him from "outside the box" to possibly outside the planet. This was his post about his church having a weeks long (maybe months long, I forget) series featuring the music of The Beatles.
Now I admit my first reaction was that knee jerk reaction of an old fuddy duddy who for some stupid reason thinks you might want to feature gospel / christian music at church. BUT after reflection I believe this is just a super cool hip thing to do that will show the world how "with it" the church can be.
So with that as inspiration I am preparing to approach my pastor and propose we feature several weeks of the music of Lady GaGa. I have not quite worked out which songs yet but obviously Poker Face will have to be one of them. We can even show her music video on the big screen!!! I am so excited I can hardly wait. I now my pastor will be exicted to because apparently he is also one of those "out of the box" thinkers since he preaches most Sunday's with blue jeans on.
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