worship trick 20 [second series] - lego bible movies

at grace last night we began the first of a series of three services looking at parables. we were thinking about stories of hospitality and this included the parable of the banquet. the way we decided to tell it was using the bricktestament bible stories in lego. it was good fun and made me think you could use the site for any bible story. be great for all age services as well...

i use a mac so if you use pc you'll have to work out the equivalent...

using grab, i took screen grabs of all the images with the text underneath in the story. i then imported them into iphoto and created an album of those images in the correct order. i then selected slide show and set the time between frames to about ten seconds. that looked brilliant when displayed full screen. as the rest of the service was being run in arkaos i actually wanted to drop the story in to arkaos, so in iphoto i selected all the images and then from the drop down file menu selected export, chose the quick time option and again set the time between images to about 10 seconds and voila - a movie ready to drop into arkaos. i thought this was probably a useful idea to share and worthy of being a worship trick.

[update: by request of the brick testament creator i have removed this movie]

(i actually did precisely this with 40 as well to create two ways of showing that...)

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Comments

[Simon Fogg]

We have used the Brick Testament stories in our monthly All Age Worship services a couple of times (just on a self-running series of 1 picture per ppt slide - very high-tech!). They have gone down well. Some of the Old Testament stories (e.g. Joshua at Jericho) are particularly blood-thirsty in the Lego series - this should further encourage your readers to give them a look.

[cheryl]

nothing to do with lego, but i love the idea of one NT scholar (Raymond Brown?) that just in the moment of hearing a parable, reality turns inside out and the kingdom of heaven breaks through... just for that moment.

which i guess becomes enticement then to live the parable.

[Darren Rowse]

great tip - we've used the BT heaps and love it - but a video like that is a great idea. thanks for the idea.

[tim]

we looked to blog this site but felt that certain stories, see the law section, went a little too far...am i being too holy or what...your comments would be appreicated...i do love the concept of lego and most of the stories work really really well, but as a whole site it just didn't sit right with us.

Tim

[Lion Kimbro]

Yeah, Deuteronomy is just totally crazy. We should just strike that book from the perfect Word of God.

It's giving us serious grief with the non-believers.

We usually just skip that section; It's not one of the "good parts" of the Bible. We only dip into that bad part when we're justifying a war or something.