Think Like a Filmmaker

ritual artist?

has responsibility for the story’s verbal form.

Tradition exists only because the story is handed on to the next generation and they continue to tell it in their own way—in a way that will communicate powerfully to their context.

By “ritual,” I mean those things we do that help us know who we are.

Sensory-rich worship creates multiple paths by which to reach people. Everyone learns differently.

we are invited to create an experience of the story—

“story-dwellers.”

our goal here is to look through a new lens (pun intended) at how we communicate in worship and utilize some basic concepts that filmmakers use to make movies “work”—that keep us engaged and move us.

movies: 1) to expand our emotional bandwidth — to feel sensations that we rarely experience in our normal lives; 2) to reconnect with our higher selves — to be reminded of what humans are capable of, in terms of both good and evil, and to alter course if we’re steering more towards the latter than the former; 3) to be reminded we’re not alone—that,