"The church cannot significantly
influence 21st century society by continuing to imagine
cutting edge
as stained-glass windows, and hi-tech as overhead projectors
while ignoring the tools that influence and mold the
rest of the world."
Bishop T.D. Jakes
The Potter's House, Dallas TX
Fully Alive uses a lot of boxes and cables to put on a
Sunday Discovery Service. We set up theatrical lighting,
rear screen video projection, about 100 square feet of
stage in addition to the stage that is already in the building,
as well as the sound system, which is fairly extensive.
All this goes in at 7AM and we are typically out of the
building by 12:30pm, 5 and half hours later. In that time,
we do 2 services.
Often times I have people come up to me and make comments
about all the work it must be or all the stuff we move.
This is our philosophy.
We feel that God grants us the ability to do what we do.
As long as three criteria are met, we'll do whatever we
can to make the service better.
The three criteria are as follows:
One, if God gives us
the know-how to pull something off.
Two, if He gives us the
resources financially to buy, rent, acquire the needed
stuff.
Three, if He makes it
possible LOGISTICALLY, do we have the time, can we physically
move the stuff, and can we store it some place safely.
If these three things are met then we feel that it is
our responsibility to do whatever God sets before us, even
if it only make the service just a little bit better. Anything
less and we would be robbing God of something.
What would have happened if the "Little Drummer Boy" had
not played his drum for the baby Jesus.
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