Creating an Experience
In an article for PreachingTodaySermons.com on "Crafting an Experience," Rob Bell offers this example of one of his Easter sermons: "These are questions I ask myself. How can I make it as hard as possible for somebody to sit with a holy stare? How can I make it so hard for you have to engage? How can I create an experience such that it becomes harder and harder for people to stay spectators? What's happening in this text? What could I have people do? What could I have them say to each other? What can I have them feel, hold or look at? Is there something I could hand out?...