Batman monster truck. Taken by Jot Powers, 1/2006.
A friend and I were talking about church stuff when he mentioned monster trucks.
My mind began to drift (I can’t help it; this is how my brain works), and I wondered, how engaging would a weekly monster truck event be if…
- …no one came out with a microphone to introduce the event or build up the energy level of the audience?
- …the same monster truck – and none other – was used each and every time?
- …the cars it crushed were never replaced with different un-crushed cars?
- …the same music was played for the fans, week after week?
- …the monster truck didn’t interact with any other vehicles in the entire arena?
- …the monster truck was simply pushed to the middle of the arena and never moved, because people found it too noisy?
- …at the end of the event you were told, “We hope you come back next week, ‘cause we’re gonna do it all over again!”?
If this was always the way at Monster Truck Church, how long would it take before people stopped coming – even the diehard fans?
How soon do you think it would be before the doors were shut and people moved on, to maybe… Motocross Church…?
Does this sound a little like your church?
