Thanks to Carlos Whittaker for his Creative Chaos blog post - a post for leaders to share their stories the creative elements they used in their Easter Sunday services. We went out on a ledge and tattooed someone live during the message.
I was so proud of our Connexus team for this one. I wanted to start Jesus the Guru - a series about Jesus' place in the growing movement toward eastern spirituality - with the idea that all of us, regardless of culture, race, era we live in, or background all have an instinctive longing to know God, because God imprinted that on our heart.
As our creative team thought through this, we kept coming back to tattooing someone to make the point. We talked about it theologically and concluded that Jesus handled the prohibition on Leviticus (otherwise you better take off that poly/cotton blend shirt). We also prefaced it by saying in our announcement time that what we were going to do is something we don't recommend for teens in any way.
Here's a close up of the ink! You can watch the message online here or download the podcast (video or audio) off iTunes by searching "connexus community".
In the end, we were thrilled with how it turned out. Numerous first timers said it really caught them off guard in a positive way. Hey, if you can change people's mind about church, you open them to changing their mind about Jesus.
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