I just had the chance to catch up on a couple of blogs from other churches in our nation, and it was very interesting to me that the very things that our creative team felt that God was telling us to focus on this past Easter, were quite similar to what other churches felt God calling them to also. We used a scrim (which casts a shadowy veil) to resemble the obstacles keeping people from experiencing the love of God. In our drama, some of these obstacles were anger, fear, loneliness, abandonment, guilt, shame, and failure.. People wrote their obstacles on cards, and put them in a chest onstage, and then we dropped the scrim at the end of our service so people could come to the cross after they gave their "obstacles" up to Jesus.. Another church (Willow Creek- pictured above)built actual walls onstage that were examples of finances, relationship struggles, and grief or loss.. They had people bring prayer requests onstage, and actually split one of the walls to show that with God's help they could break through anything.
My prayer is that the experience will reach far beyond just what happened last weekend.. That people will know that each time they let their guard down and Satan gets a hold of them and begins to reconstruct walls and barriers to Christ within them, that they will remember and KNOW that God is the answer. He is almighty, and there is NOTHING that can separate us from His love. NOTHING!
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