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Preaching is Performance Art

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more."

Nearly any churchgoer could have said this, and in nearly any period of history. But in this case the listener was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American essayist and lecturer (1803-1882). He went on to explain that "the capital secret of [the preacher's] profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned … there was not a surmise, a hint in all the discourse that he had ever lived at all."

We have all heard preachers with that problem. Their sermons employ an artificial set of communication skills divorced from ordinary human life. These preachers assume that the purpose of the exegesis they learned in seminary is to spring-load sermons with technical data that will impress and subdue listeners. Or they spend all their time working on what to say and no time at all on how to say it.

T.S. Elliot said the purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. In preaching, we're called to turn ink back into blood. Yet so many preachers speak only abstractly, as if they were devoid of humanness. There's no flesh, no blood, no tension, no mystery, no life in their sermons. No dialogue, no communication, and no eye contact with those looking at them expectantly every Sunday morning. Only words drawn from commentaries or a thesaurus. These are the preachers that tempt us "to go to church no more."

But the opposite temptation also exists: to deliver the sermon in such an animated way that all attention is drawn to the preacher and away from the Word.

We could make a long list of such preachers: The wannabe comedian, the preacher obsessed with cultural awareness, the narrator that strings together poignant but pointless stories, the media maestro who spends hours mastering digital techniques and only minutes on the message, the preacher with an affected pulpit tone, the awkward speaker who has plenty to say but no confidence in delivery, the masterful presenter whose message is a string of banalities, the preacher who becomes convinced that personal experience and "life message" are more interesting than the gospel. The list goes on.

Such preachers also tempt us to give up on sermons altogether. In the end, it does not matter which of the temptations is displayed in the pulpit. The result is the same: the people are kept from an encounter with God.

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According to palm they told me when the adobe flash comes out, that will allow us to receive animated text gif. messages (you know where the words are changing colors the snowman is dancing and yes those dirty ones we get from the verizon customers lol). they told me the flash will be to the phone and not just the browser. and animated text will be seen. i hope this is correct. There is a difference between flash and animated gifs and they are very independent technologies. Flash in the phone would mean that if you happen to download a swf it could run it, it could just up and take over the thing unless there was a complete rewrite of everything, not just the technologies talking to the video card (as would be the case with enabling the GPU). it was customer service but he had contacted others before he would reply to me about that(called me back about 3 HRS later). he said he wanted to find out about what would be included with the update 1.4 and i told him that i wanted to know about the animated text messages and why other phones had them and we didn't and he said that was because we didn't have the built in flash like the windows phones have. and like the blackberrys have. but said that will be in 1.

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