My son Joel is finishing up his studies on video game design. So I couldn't resist posting this from boing boing.
Before Nintendo got into the video-game business, it was a toy and game manufacturer -- here's a gallery of the pre-game Nintendo products.What I find interesting to note is that Nintendo changed. They didn't lock themselves into their product line. They saw themselves as producing games, not specific games. I wonder if there is something the church needs to understand. Do we understand what we are about, or have we locked ourselves into a specific "product line"?
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hmmm. I would like to see a collection of "new products" from the church on Squirl. ha ha!
Understanding the church and/or the gospel as a product, feeds consumerism.
On the one hand you say:
"Wow, church as I know it has changed! There are many amzaing churches!"
but then you say:
"Thankfully the "product line" doesn't need to change."
I was using "product line" negatively, in the sense that some churches and christians are locked into a "program" more than they are into seeing lives changed by the power of God's Spirit alive in people.
I admit there are times I am negative re some aspects of the church and christians. But then I see and read a lot of stuff to be negative about.
On the other hand there is much to be positive about. God is changing people; he is building his kingdom, he is, to use the cliche: helping his people to get out of the box. But, the sad part is, a lot of the "out of the box" ministry and life is in turn criticized by what, to continue the analogy, "product line" churches and christians.
I believe that God works in his church, his people - today. I also believe that he wants to do more than we have even dreamed of [Eph 3:20-21]