Charles Lee is pastor of New Hope South Bay, and quite the innovative church leader. He has been instrumental in launching a handful of viral initiatives, including Just One, The Freeze Project, and The Idea Camp.
He recently started a sermon series entitled, “Six-Forty Series”, to speak to spiritual disciplines. The title “Six-Forty” comes from the format of the sermon presentation. The story goes that Jeff Shinabarger told Charles about how some Japanese architects were creatively formatting their design presentations to make them more focused, concise, and memorable. These design presentations, known as Pecha Kucha (which comes from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation), are 6 minutes 40 seconds PowerPoint presentations that contain 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each.
Charles thought this would be a refreshing way to communicate a Sunday message, and here's the first message with its accompanying Powerpoint slides. Hit play on the audio to listen, and click through each slide every 20 seconds, to get the full experience.
I just listened to this, and I did find it more engaging and concise. Perhaps less is more. What do you think? Know anyone else that's done this in a church context, and how did it go?
// DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network
[photo credit: taliesin from morguefile.com]
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