December 29, 2006

christmas worship 1

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This worked well as Christmas worship. I hung 4 nappies across the front. My (sermon) reflected on Christmas in the 4 gospels:

: Luke's Christmas is the stuff of childhood carols
: Mark's Christmas has no Christmas and Jesus is an adult, announcing the Kingdom
: Matthew's Christmas includes foreigners
: John's Christmas is God giggling.

On each nappy was a different visual image, taken from a contemporisation of the Book of Kells. The images had been digitally scanned and, using inkjet printer transfer paper, ironed onto the nappy. So each nappy represented a different gospel.

So the Christmas response was the invitation for people to come and rip a piece off the nappy from the Christmas that most challenged them. So if you look closely, John's gospel got a thrashing.

Posted by steve at December 29, 2006 09:04 AM
Comments

Steve, mate, you're amazing....that's awesome!

Posted by: christherev at December 30, 2006 07:46 AM

Thanks for sharing the service - I missed most of Christmas this year so was nice to catch up. I tried to find a pod cast of a service as I was stuck at home but couldn't - there's a challenge for you in that!!

Posted by: jowall at December 30, 2006 08:08 AM

thanks Chris. it was actually a really simple idea; i simply wanted to make each gospel "stand out" and throught visuals would help that; and then wondered how that visual thread could flow through the service.

Posted by: steve at December 30, 2006 09:39 AM

that's great - you inspire me! Thanks for sharing :)

Posted by: Deborah Taggart at December 30, 2006 08:03 PM

Hello Steve, I'm from Toronto Canada, and just finished your book. Just wanted to say thank you for your insights.

peace.

Posted by: Lon at December 31, 2006 03:47 PM

way cool - aren't nappies the same as diapers in American?

Posted by: Makeesha at January 7, 2007 05:37 PM