Increasingly aware of discussions regarding the value of "texting" and "twitter" for ministry. For instance, Mark Galli of Christianity Today just posted an article entitled: "Does Twitter Do Us Any Good?" The article begins with the Trinity and then interacts with Kevin Kelly's article in Wired entitled, "The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society is Coming Online". Fascinating.
In a more playful manner, Timothy McSweeney offers "God Texts the Ten Commandments" by Jamie Quattro. Is this what "dynamic equivalence" means?
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hey keith i tried to send you an email 2x about this so i thought i'd leave it as a comment. here it is:
our oc staff just trained our students in sharing the satisfied booklet, and as much as i love the content and potential of it, i had a couple thoughts about it that i wanted to get your feedback on, if you have time of course.
what i observed:
lots of text, challenging to create a dialogue vs. a monologue
systematic (not bad :)), but very little if any narrative element
what i was thinking:
narrative driven, graphically stimulating booklet.
have you heard of Daniel Pink? real big with gen-y business minded/entrepreneurial kids. he wrote a book 'the adventures of Johnny Bunko.' my mind went there when i thought of what i could envision it looking like. i included a sample chapter from the book.
was thinking what it would look like to tell a compelling story that would expose the carnality of a Christian. also think it would be great to focus it around ONE THEME; each page would reinforce the theme.
http://www.danpink.com/johnnybunko.html
Hi, Brian.
Your observations on "Satisfied?" are pretty accurate. When I developed it, I was given pretty clear parameters. Thus, it is as it is...
However, there is always room for new, effective tools in the tool box.
I am generally familiar with Pink's six essential senses from his Whole New Mind. It echoes much of what we have read, thought and dabbled with over the last decade.
I was not aware of his exploration and adaptation of Manga. Did you know that we (CCCI) once developed an innovative Manga/Art presentation of the gospel (late 90's). It was acutally done by Makoto Fujimura (search: International Arts Movement). It was a fascinating project though didn't represent a breakthrough
It is intriguing to think of what a Spirit-filled life interaction could look like, using your thoughts. This summer, Rick J and I are going to attempt a re-do of Life@Large in a more narrative, story-form.
We'll see...
KD
I think what's missing from the usual training on the Satisfied booklet (and I saw the training last year at the OC, Brian) is that staff don't understand the "Ideal-Problem-Solution-Decision" flow of it that's the same flow in the old Birdie booklets and in the KGPs/4-Laws themselves. So, when the Satisfied booklets are taught, they are normally just word for word passed along and don't pass along the background narrative that is implicit in the booklet.
(And yes, I understand your constraints, Keith... so it's not a knock on what you wrote.)
Every resource needs a training manual on it. Whether it's the KGP's "Big Six" or the KGP's "PicturePages" or the Bible's "O-I-A", it's just a case where the Satisfied booklet's training on it has been lost somewhere.
But a narrative or interactive presentation of the Gospel or SFL is always nice, but again.. it'll need a training manual just as much.
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Your observation on the template or paradigm is correct. In fact, one of the design objectives of "Satisfied?" was to make it feel more like KGP/4Ls. That was accomplished in part by including biblical verses, rather than just the references (which in the older Blue booklet, verses were quoted only in the intro and first point and then again at fourth point.)
Another was to move it toward a biblical theology. (It is still a systematic summary, but...) If you look closely, you will note it begins with promises out of the Gospel of John, moves to I Corinthians, Galatians and concludes with Ephesians. So knowing the teaching on the Spirit from those four books, one can communicate the concepts with only Bible in hand, not needing the booklet per se. That is one example of where the training (though available) rarely got out into the mainstream of CCC.
As far as Tweeting, Keith, please know that I'll be constantly tweeting during CSU. It's how I'll communicate with my friends about what's being said even though we really can't talk (out loud) when there's a speaker up front.
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