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A Thousand Good Ideas

May 29, 2012 in Blog, Creativity, From Our Staff with 2 Comments

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It’s an honor to serve as the Creative Director at Open Door. I get the incredible opportunity to help creatively communicate the message of Jesus through our services and different departments, whether that’s in a video, song idea, illustration for the message, design work, etc.

What’s funny to me about creativity, through various conversations with people, is that most people don’t think they’re creative. Ironically they are some of the most creative people. I can really relate to this. I rarely “feel” creative.

I really think this hits on an important issue within all of us. If we rely on our emotions to drive us we’ll never really accomplish anything for God. What I constantly come back to is this thought and it’s one of those things that drives us at Open Door: I’d rather have one “God idea” than a thousand “good ideas.” We have to be consistently led by God, not just by our emotions or what we “feel” like is a good idea.

I think this applies to more than just church. It really applies to our lives. How often do we rely on our own logic and feelings rather than being led by God’s Spirit? It’s a challenging question. One that I keep coming back to over and over again. It’s one of those things that focuses what I do. We aren’t just about doing cool things to do cool things. We are about doing what God’s called us to do!

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Michael Chandler
Creative Director

Christmas Stage Flip

November 29, 2011 in Creativity, Volunteers with 1 Comment

Christmas is coming which means, its time for a new stage design!  Check out the short video that shows you how Michael Chandler and his team go about it!

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Creating Something Amazing

November 3, 2011 in Children's Ministry, Creativity, From Our Staff with 0 Comments

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” - Ephesians 2:10 

For the past four weeks the KIDMO team has been sharing with the kids of Open Door about God’s creativity. This is truly one of my favorite things about God, and it has been an amazing four weeks! Four kids have gotten saved and eight kids have expressed a desire to get baptized! We have not just learned about God’s creativity but have gotten to see how it works in our every day lives, and in God’s bigger picture!

This past Sunday we ended our creativity series upstairs. As we closed out this series I am reminded of my senior year in college that I lived in a little apartment with my older sister, Amber. It was a small two-story apartment that was longer than it was wide. As soon as you walked in you were standing in the living room, which was open to the kitchen, and the stairs leading up to our bedrooms were right in front of you. When it came to explaining our décor in this apartment we fully embraced the phrase “broke college students”! It mostly consisted of friend’s furniture that we happened to end up with, and our sheet white walls were covered with posters. However, one of those posters always stood out to us among the rest. It was a photographic mosaic of a laughing Bob Marley hanging above our kitchen table. A photographic mosaic is where lots of smaller pictures make up a larger picture, that is only seen when you take a few steps back.  This poster was one of our favorite things for two reasons. We loved how in the poster Bob is smiling so big that his eyes are nearly shut.  He just looked so incredibly happy. Even though in reality I’m sure the reason for him smiling so big was not because he was so happy. We also loved this poster because of the simple concept of smaller pictures that can all stand alone but are creatively apart of something bigger. The shading and coloring of these pictures line up perfectly so that when you stand back you see the bigger picture. It’s nothing short of awesome!

Looking back years later, I think about how the concept is just like how God works creatively in the Church as a whole. We all individually make up our own picture. Maybe your picture would include family, friends, your love for the Lord, serving, your work, or maybe school.  What makes up your picture–the shading and coloring–matters.  God takes these pictures and creatively places them one by one together, each one as important as the next, to create something amazing: the Church of God. So that when people that are not yet apart of it take a look at the picture from a few steps back they don’t see Bob, they see the face of God. A God that is not just truly happy but truly joyful, filled with a love like no other, overflowing with compassion, and offering grace.  Our awesome God not only has a creative plan for our individual lives but for us as a church. I am so excited to be apart of it!

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Megan Pulaski

Four Kings: An Open Door Original

June 9, 2010 in Creativity, Message Series with 0 Comments

To conclude our last series we unveiled a brand new original song produced at Open Door Ministries.

The song was written and produced by Mike Taylor and Steven Emory.  It was written specifically for our series Four Kings dealing with wisdom.

It was an incredible way to end the series and the song stands on it's own as a great song.

You can check out more of Mike Taylor's (aka Sound the Messenger) work here.

Check out the live version from Sunday's service below!

It is so incredible to see creativity being developed and used at Open Door and we can't wait to see how God continues to use new and creative ways to reach people with the message of Jesus Christ.

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