From Experiential Storytelling
Modernity has placed a lab coat on most preachers. After peering at the Bible under the microscope, they continually find more evidence and facts to disseminate to a waiting audience. The pressure each preacher faces is to come up with more and more points to explain what the text means.

Why not take a breather for a time and let the story speak for itself in a language those gathered can understand? When presented without all of the trappings of exegetical interpretation, the biblical text is freed from the limits of our minds and is open to the organic beauty of the infinite Word.

Yet another great quote from this great book! I am hoping to develop more creativity in my churches and my preaching. But rural America is notorious for tradition and resisting change! I am hoping to begin a youth worship service this summer when we get back some of our college students. I am really excited about this opportunity and hope that it would bring in some of the younger people in our community that the churches here are completely missing.

Ideas and prayers for this endeavor would be greatly appreciated!