We talk about getting more creative in our worship gatherings, but sometimes when we get together to brainstorm, there’s a whole lot of silence. The white space just screams back at us from those 3-M sheets. What sermon series haven’t we done? What songs haven’t we sung? What movie clip haven’t we played? It feels like our brains are on pause.

Change of strategy! A new year is upon us and maybe this fall is the perfect time to get the remote off of pause and into play. Literally. Have you ever thought that it might be the four walls of your church building that are working against you? Maybe if you and your worship planning team made a point of getting out into the community and playing for the next few months, you’d need the whole 3-M pad to write down your ideas!   

What do you mean, get out into the community and play? I mean, get out and have fun. Go to the football game, holler, and eat a bunch of Cheetos.  Get tickets to the high-school play (yes, even if it’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and drink the intermission punch while you’re there. Yes, that institutional red stuff. 

The point is, get out of church-dom and go see what your fellow earthlings are doing. If you don’t know where to begin, just take a look at the school calendars your kids are bringing home. Any grade. From the kindergarten finger-paint-a-thon at the library to the soccer-parents’ annual talent-show to the eighth-grade-jazz-band’s “Ice Cream Rumba,” there are tons of things going on. Take your whole group when you go. Take your family.  Take as many church-types as you can. But get out there.

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