Fumbling Around with Your Radar: Rob Bell

Fumbling Around with Your Radar
Rob Bell

Where do sermons come from?
Radar

Buckets

Chunks

Marinade

Radar
“the blank screen”---Sunday is coming!
From having to say something to having something to say

“I can’t wait to share this!”
What if you gave the Spirit 6 months to move instead of 14 hours?

“God must love you…”

I get to do this to glorify God

Sermon prep is:
All around us; all the time; everywhere; everybody
Vs.
Tuesday @ 9

Genesis 28

Surely God is in this place and I’m not aware of it

Faith is expanding consciousness to see the Lord is in this place

Faith is waking up to see God is already in this place

Jesus wants to teach us how to show up because he’s already there!

John 5

Always @ work

Preacher has radar

to presence and living work of Spirit

hypersensitive to world around

Point it out and put words on it

Life is preaching to me all the time

God’s other name is surprise

1.) Life
2.) Text

1.) Life—exegete life
Write it

Take a picture of it

Save it

Ask for it

Get it

Clip it

Tear it out

Store it

Mark it

Remember it

WITH NO EDIT BUTTON!

Don’t know why

Don’t know how it will fit

Don’t know when
JUST CAPTURE IT!

2.) Text
Memorize—now just with you; start to stand out

Inhale—what have others said?

Words—key words; used in other places; what tense; do words have pictures?

Location—where? What else happened there?

Culture

Concepts—mentioned elsewhere? Anyone else talk about this?

Stories—is this a story? Are there others?

Time—what else was going on?

Pictures

Actions—see what we’re reading

Connections

Sometimes the best stuff doesn’t come from Christians

Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler

When we define ourselves by what we’re not, we’re on a dangerous path…

If I couldn’t use any biblical or religious language, how would I describe this?

to a child?

to a Martian?

without words?

using only drawings and pictures?

using only actors?

If it’s Christian, it’s going to be fully human

see the world with Jesus’ perspective

What’s the thing behind the thing

The mystery behind the mystery?

The truth behind the truth?

Enact it

Perform it

Show it

Do it

Ignore it

Circle around it

Hand it out

Radar

Buckets

Chunks

Marinade

Buckets
Capture something

one idea/fragment/insight/sentence

one a week

no pressure, no time frame
Revisiting regularly—re-read

intention & attention

Series

Some buckets grow into chunks

If it isn’t hot, drop it—move one (may come back?)
Accumulating vs. arranging

Something taking root in you

Ask people to write their stories

get name, number, e-mail

People in church have gifts and skills

they’re just waiting for you to ask!

Marinade

Certain things have to have time to soak