This was a video one of our volunteers (Parker, you’re the man!) made as an object lesson in this week’s back to school talk called You Are Here. In my talk I shared how so many people are intimidated by church – they feel judged and like people are looking down on them with condescending. It is as if they are being “sin scanned” and their sins will be on display for all to see.

I plugged in a little platform with rope lights and this “booted up” on the main screen. I interaction with it a few times, for the voice authentication part and especially the part about denial. It ends abruptly, and the bit ends with me holding the cord that I had just unplugged as it got to some serious sins.

Funny and hopefully effective illustration of how people when they enter the church doors for the first time – and how we want to make HSM a safe, warm, fun and life-changing place.

JG