On Stages

Its been a really long week.
By the looks of it, they're only going to be getting longer each time around. I'm not looking forward to that. I'm stressing a bit about where all the time I thought I had to do homework went. It just isn't there.

I watched a few snippets of a church conference this week. There was a lot of talk about home-based churches that are moving especially in california. cool stuff. But I still like Perry Noble's stance- that the church ought to have the most creativity, the best shows, the most captivating experiences, since we have the greatest message of all and we might as well back it up the way it should be.
That couldn't have been underlined more clearly than with The Who's performance at halftime less than an hour ago.
I spent all of the Halftime Report staring at the background behind the commentators trying to get a glimpse of the setup going on the field.
Greatest. Stage. Ever.
I feel like stadiums have always been one of the most difficult places to pull off a good looking stage, since you have people on every direction. A circle is a natural route to go, but an enormous curved LED screen with flash pots inside of it and media that complements its shape perfectly is absolutely phenomenal.

The problem?
Pete Townsend is 64. His days of rock and roll are over. All those guys looked like frail grandparents at a college reunion, enjoying their 12 minutes in the middle of the Sun Life Stadium.
We have the most excellent stage and lighting plot celebrating a bunch of old guys way past their prime who are celebrating football, beer, and wings.

we can do better. It would be my dream to be directly involved with something better than that. But seriously. Jesus >>> football. We make a big deal and throw parties to watch two teams of professionals, neither of whom we particularly cared for during the regular season, and then don't see anything wrong with merely showing up to church on sunday morning. Where's Jesus' circular screen-around-a-stage? Where are his lasers and his Showguns? And by golly, where are His fireworks and His flash pots?
If we did church like that every sunday, the entire state of new hampshire would, at the very least, be really really interested in what was going on.