Nooma

I get real excited when I hear of people who try to communicate God in alternative ways or are being revolutionary in their way of connecting people with God, Erwin McMannus is one of these, the guys who are a part of XXXChurch (www.xxxchurch.com) are another.
One guy I heard about a couple of years ago is Rob Bell. Rob is a pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan. What made him stand out to me for a start was a story about one of the first sermons he 'preached' at his church.

The first book he decided to preach his way through was Leviticus, in one service the scripture was Leviticus 10:3, in this verse it says "Aaron was Silent" so Rob read out this verse at the start of the sermon and then sat down...

They sat there for 45 minutes in silence

While they were sitting there a powerpoint was playing that said "Some of you will be finding this really hard...tough luck"

Apparently this was the most profound sermon that the congregation had heard.

This guy is willing to try alternative ways rather than the bog-standard sermon.

Anyway this guy has released a series of DVD's called Nooma, each DVD is a talk on a topic, a talk is probally a bad way of explaining it, Rob is having a conversation with the listener. He has a website that is worth a look (www.nooma.com).

Picture taken from the discussion booklet that is available for free download off the website.

I am planning to have a closer look at the entire DVD set soon and I'll post here any thoughts that come from them.