This is one of my favorite worship experiences we have done for a while. Our new series is called "Indescribable" and is based upon five of the names of Jesus found within the prophecies in the book of Isaiah and the fulfilled in the story of Jesus' birth. The weekend messages center around those five, but we created an experience in the entryways of all 8 campuses that feature all 121 prophecies of Jesus from Isaiah. Every campus has some form of that experience on weekends, but because several are in rented facilities, they are limited on what they can do. Below are some examples of that experience at the Yellow Box in Naperville. We actually are going to leave all of this up for the entire series, through the end of December. We set up the ground level to become the book of Isaiah, where you can follow a time-line through the chapters and experience a series of 10 prayer stations that connect the worshiper with the different themes of the prophecies. We are encouraging attenders to come back during the week by themselves, with a friend or with their small group and travel through the experience to create a new kind of connection with God's plan and purpose for Christmas.
HUGE kudos to my administrative volunteer, Cyndi Dole, who spent the last three weeks of her life making this happen at all sites!
Here a few of the tie-in slides we used in the service during Communion. Each slide featured one of the prophecies and then would fade into a slide that had the New Testament fulfillment of that prophecy. They took a picture of one of our blank scrolls and then super-imposed the scripture over the picture, using the same font we did it. Great job TJ Friesen!