Creativity's Unseen Work

Disclaimer- this post could be seen as tooting my own horn, so apologies ahead of time!

I'm scheduled to teach at Hillcrest on July 7 and am working at trying something new.  As we're going through the Story, the format allows for some creativity to kind of spice things up.  The section of The Story we're going through for this Sunday is some of Jesus' best stuff- feeding of masses, walking on water, sermon on the mount, healing people, casting out demons, bringing people back from dead, etc.  It was difficult to focus on only a couple of stories, so the message on July 7 will be "choose your own adventure" style, where Hillcresters will get to use this amazing little app to actually vote- live- on which stories they want to hear.  They'll vote, and then we'll do that story.  That story will lead them to two more choices, they'll vote again, and we'll do the story they select.

All in all, it requires preparing 14 different stories (or mini messages) with the foreknowledge that at most only 6 different stories (3 during first service and a different 3 during second service) will be presented.  And Tarina- bless her heart- has agreed to join the fun by preparing 4 different songs to close out the service, again the song she sings will be determined by the path the people choose, but also with the foreknowledge that at most only 2 songs will be heard.

In essence, over half of the work being done for July 7th will go unseen and unheard.

Such is the work of expending some creative effort, right?!