In the summer of 2009, The Orchard Church was meeting in the East Towne Cinemas movie theater during it’s first summer. As a play on our movie theater setting, we decided to do a June message series based on movie themes from that summer’s box office blockbusters.
After four years, we decided to bring that series back, updated with current movies from 2013. We will be playing off themes from Man of Steel (June 2), Star Trek Into Darkness (June 9), The Lone Ranger (June 16), and Hunger Games: Catching Fire (June 23). In the spirit of summer movies, I even edited together a little “trailer” for this series for you to watch and share with your friends.
So why bring this idea back? Here are three reasons why I thought it would be a good idea to revisit this series idea:
- Summer Schedule
School is out and people are travelling during the summertime. Our lifegroup sat around last night discussing each families’ vacation plans over the next few weeks. With people in and out as they will be, I wanted to do a series that didn’t “build upon itself…” These messages will each kinda stand on their own. - Easy Invite
This series is just a fun, unique thing… A lot of churches wouldn’t take this approach. It may not be very easy to invite your friends to a year-long series on the book of Genesis, but everyone likes movies! My hope is that you will leverage this series to invite people who won’t normally come to church. - Making the Gospel Relevant
Not everyone speaks “church language.” But everyone likes movies. Even if people don’t “get” the church scene in general, they certainly speak the language of today’s most popular media. This is a great way to take the Gospel to people in a way they can understand.
I hope you will join us when you’re in town over the next few weeks, and that you’ll use this chance to invite your non-church friends into our group.