Jul
6

Headbangers: An Opener Game

By hrsweat // Church, Creative // View Comments

Two People…. Head to Head…. giving honor to the great metal bands of our forefathers! Two go in, but….. well, no one dies. Don’t be so morbid people!

This was a practice for an opening game we played at First Hattiesburg. We borrowed it from the game show Minuet to Win It.

We do things like this for two purposes. First off, we just like to have fun. I’m not sure when we learned that it was not ok to have a good time a church. Like God needs us to be solemn 24/7. There is a time for reverence and a time to bust loose. If you go to a church that never has any fun (aka “joy”, if you want to put it into churchy terms), then you might be at the wrong place.

Second thing, we do it for the people on the fringes. If someone comes to our church and the first thing we do is sing a song that they don’t know the lyrics to or one that sounds a century out of date, we have just alienated them and it will be harder for us to share the gospel. Instead, is it not better to put them in an open state of
mind? Start of with something that they can grab on to; make them feel apart of whats going on.