Sunday provides us a day to relax, reflect, and refuel. On Sunday’s I like to sit back and ask a couple of questions. Maybe it sounds a little like those awkward games you play with people you do not know so that you can get to know each other better. Lets just call Question(s) for You.

You can answer them all or just one….

1) What do you do in the car? Listen to Radio, CD Player, Text?

2) The iPad, your impressions?

3) What church service do you go to? Saturday night, early service or late service?

Answer them all or just one….these are questions for you.

*kyle

Sunday provides us a day to relax, reflect, and refuel. On Sunday’s I like to sit back and ask a couple of questions. Maybe it sounds a little like those awkward games you play with people you do not know so that you can get to know each other better. Lets just call Question(s) for You.

You can answer them all or just one….

1) What is your favorite instrument to play or hear?

2) What would be your last meal?

3) Do you wear a watch? If so what hand?

Answer them all or just one…these are questions for you.

*kyle

Sunday provides us a day to relax, reflect, and refuel. On Sunday’s I like to sit back and ask a couple of questions. Maybe it sounds a little like those awkward games you play with people you do not know so that you can get to know each other better. Lets just call Question(s) for You.

You can answer them all or just one….

1) Who is going to win the Superbowl?

2) Did you go to Church in a building, online, not at all?

3) Biggest surprise of 2010 so far?

*kyle

Sunday provides us a day to relax and reflect/refuel. On Sunday’s I like to sit back and ask a couple of questions.

Maybe it sounds a little like those awkward games you play with people you do not know so that you can get to know each other better. Lets just call Question(s) for You.

You can answer them all or just one….

1) What is one word to describe yourself?

2) Coke or Pepsi?

3) What is one event you are looking forward to in 2010?

*kyle

The movie avatar does not deliver the wow factor. Instead it delivers 2 and half hours of consistent amazement. As I gazed through my 3d lenses I was overwhelmed from start to finish. There was not one moment where I was just “wowed.” Every minute was amazing. Avatar is changing the way movies are being made and more importantly the way stories are told.

The wow factor is simply a moment that makes you say “wow.” As I was sitting in the movie theater I started to think about James Cameron and his vision. How many years before the movie was every even shot on green screen he had written the script. Hoping that one day theaters and technology would be ready for his vision. I was sitting there thinking about his obsessive attention to detail, wanting everything to be perfect. But there was one moment that I was missing. It was the moment where you were completely blown away, the moment where you did not expect to see that or could not believe your eyes. That moment never came, and that is what made this movie awesome. Instead of focusing on “wowing” you into submission, Cameron focused on telling a story and being consistent in every aspect of his movie. He did not spend all of his time working on one scene, pouring hours and millions into making the ending the best possible. Instead the wow moment was the entire movie.

The wow factor only seems to exist in the church. Five Christmas Eve services ago, I was at church, sitting on the second row with my family. It was the usually Christmas eve service, filled with music, choirs, candle lighting and preaching. The wow moment came at the end of the service when suddenly a star curtain was revealed in the background bringing that “wow” moment to the night. It definitely took the crowds breathe away and left you saying “wow!” As I sat there watching avatar, I could not get that image of the star curtain out of my mind. It was the crowing moment for the Christmas Eve service, the Avatar moment, if you will, of Christmas eve services. It was the culmination of the service that had weeks of planning. I have also been on the other side of things. Knowing the wow moment was coming. Sitting there during the service and just watching people, wanting to tell them “you think this is great, wait until we do this.” I think we have gotten so caught up in the wow moments that we have missed consistent amazement.

Today I am going to continue this discussion. At 2pm central time I will post another blog on this subject talking about the effects of the wow factor.First I want to give some time to discuss and digest this now (and I do not want to write a 1000 word post that you will have to drink three cups of coffee to read).

Question:
Has the WOW!!!!!!! Factor lost its wowness?

*kyle

Tune in at 2pm central standard time for Part two of the Wow factor. We will discuss the reason why the wow factor is a negative factor to the church.

On Sundays I like to enjoy some sabbath, football, and napping.
So today you control the blog and answer some questions in the comment section.
You can answer them all or answer one…you choose.

Here are some questions for you.

Because it is Christmas Sunday let see what kind of Christmas questions we can ask:

1) What is your favorite Christmas movie?

2) Real or Fake (Christmas tree that is)?

3) What is one Christmas tradition that you always do?

*kyle

Speaking of Over spiritualizing things…Seth Godin had a post yesterday that asked 8 questions. Each question was not just a one word answer. It took time to really think them through, but really to just be honest with yourself about the questions. In good Christian fun I decided to steal the idea and ask some of my own questions. You can answer these on your own, one at a time, or in the comment section. With 2010 approaching I think some of these questions are on our minds.

Here is the post if you want to answer his questions.

Here are my 8 Questions for you:

What truth are you speaking into someones life right now?

What are you promising yourself you will start doing?

How much money are you saving for that next big purchase?

How much sacrifice of time are you willing to give to make your dream a reality?

What needs to be changed in your life right now?

What do you want people to say about you when you die?

What people are you surrounding yourself with?

Who do you care about?

(and after each answer, ask ‘why?’)

*kyle

The language we speak sets us apart, it places us in a group of individuals who all communicate based on the way we talk. You can take this globally and look at the languages spoken in countries and you can take this to individual homes and the language and verbiage spoken by families. Each community or group has a way of communicating that is only understood by that community. Most men have a way of communicating about sports, most women have a way of communicating about chic flicks. We all are separated into groups that speak our language. One of the biggest groups that speak a “language” is Christianity.

I wish we all spoke the same language. I have never been more frustrated then I was in Mexico, trying to communicate with a Mom and three children as we built a house for them left me frustrated and disappointed in myself for wasting three years of Spanish in high school. So much human contact is lost when you are unable to conversate and speak with one another. I have been thinking about this a lot lately (and you might notice from my blog post yesterday about Selling Christianity). How much of the message is lost in communication from Christians?
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