Packaging the Message
Foundations of Orality
We will learn that packaging has a big impact on the message.
Farmer Pablo
😃🤔🤯 Can you remember the sermon from two weeks ago?
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Watch the short story of Farmer Pablo.
😃🤔🤯 Can you relate to farmer Pablo? Find examples in your church or ministry that are similar.
It’s about transformation
How much impact has a typical sermon on your life?
Now look at Jesus’ Great Commission.
Teach them to obey everything that I have told you to do.
Matthew 28:20, ERV
Or Paul’s introduction to the application for the Roman church.
Be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind.
Romans 12:2, VOICE
God’s message is about transformation seen in everyday life!
A tangible message
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Watch this pottery bloopers.
Eternal One: Go down to the potter’s shop in the city, and wait for My word.
So I went down to the potter’s shop and found him making something on his wheel. And as I watched, the clay vessel in his hands became flawed and unusable. So the potter started again with the same clay. He crushed and squeezed and shaped it into another vessel that was to his liking. In that moment, I heard again God’s word for His rebellious people.
Eternal One: O people of Israel, can I not do the same to you as this potter has done? You are like clay in My hands—I will mold you as I see fit.
Jeremiah 18:2-6, VOICE
😃🤔🤯 How does God “preach” compared to what we are used to?
My expectation
😃🤔🤯 What I hope to gain from this program?
What & How
😃🤔🤯 Think about what is more important, the content or the delivery of the message?
Delivery
😃🤔🤯 Did you ever receive a damaged product because of unproper packaging? Share your experience.
How to say it
This is the introduction to Hebrews:
Long ago, at different times and in various ways, God’s voice came to our ancestors through the Hebrew prophets. But in these last days, it has come to us through His Son, the One who has been given dominion over all things and through whom all worlds were made.
Hebrews 1:1-2, VOICE
In John 12:37-50, Jesus is challenged by people who do not believe.
I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.
John 12:49-50, NLT
😃🤔🤯 Reflect on the verses above. Does God care about how His message is delivered?
Orality is about the HOW
Most of us are well equipt with WHAT to say.
Orality is about HOW to say it!
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