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Weekend Teaching Series: Labels (week 2 of 2)
Sermon Title: Man in the Mirror
Bible: Ephesians 2
Sermon in a Sentence: We need to be most concerned with how God sees us, and not be too concerned with anyone else’s opinion.
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 6 out of 10
Attendance: Up 4% from last weekend, up 29% from same weekend last year
Service Length: 64 minutes
Understandable Message: This weekend was the Refinery Student Art Festival, so we wanted to hit on that theme for sure. The simple premise of the message was that you are a special creation of God, designed and loved by Him. Essentially this should be how we label ourselves, instead of establishing our value from the validation we get from others.
Volunteer/Student Involvement: Student greeters handed out bulletins, response cards and pens. A key volunteer made the mirror holder on stage. I used a couple of adults on stage as an object lesson, too. Students made up the band, ran camera and the control room, too. I especially loved it when the team also walked through the aisles at the beginning of the talk to make sure everyone had a pen/program. A solid weekend effort by our students and volunteers. Sweet!
Element of Fun/Positive Environment: We had a little fun up front with the announcements time and videos up front, but most of the “fun” was contained in the talk itself. I opened with an illustration of a label I put on myself – MOVIE STAR – and showed a clip of the time I was an extra with Tom Cruise in Far and Away.
Music Playlist: Everything, Holy Moment, Beautiful Lord, From the Inside Out
Favorite Moment: Breaking the mirrors! We had a mirror on stage, and throughout the talk I wrote labels of self-image on it. I wrote words that represent how we see ourselves and how we internalize and eventually believe the labels people put on us. Good or bad, labels aren’t the way we should look at ourselves. Then I hit the mirror with a hammer to reveal another one underneath it that had “I am God’s Masterpiece” on it. We also gave out dry erase markers to everyone who attended – so they could write “I am God’s Masterpiece” on their mirror at home, too.
Next week: You Own the Weekend 2: Mission Viejo High School
man in the mirror and didn’t play michael Jackson’s old school song “man in the mirror.” bummer. sounds like a great message though.
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