cms in free fall

at the official opening of cms house today i was asked to lead an audio visual meditation on the hinge point in the service between looking back and celebrating cms past and looking forward to the future and the changes ahead. a few people have asked where the video etc was from so i am posting it here so i can point people to it...

the video was dayvan cowboy by boards of canada which i did make a worship trick a while back. you can download it from warprecords free or get the dvd free with the EP that you can order from the same page. the text of the piece was as follows. i read it such that the line about looking into the future is before the parachutist comes through the clouds, and the baptised line fitted with him falling into the ocean...

god crossed a border, a boundary
left his world to go on a journey into ours

the word became flesh and moved into the neighbourhood
dwelt among us

we stand in a long line of ancestors
of pioneers
of risk takers
of improvisers
of those who dared to take the adventure
of following christ
to leave their known world
step off its edge
free falling with god
crossing borders
into unknown futures
and new worlds
to share the story of christ
and plant the seed of the gospel

as the father sent me so i am sending you

the story has been passed to us because of those
who dared,
who risked,
who dreamed
who followed,
who improvised

now we stand looking out into the future

will you dare?
will you dream?
will you risk?
will you follow?
will you leave your known world?
will you freefall with god?
will you join christ in the adventure?
will you be baptised into god's mission?
will you rise to surf with god into the future?
will you trust the spirit?

far we have come far must we go
here we are send us

Comments

[tim]

love that video - used it before... always looking for a reason to use it again...

[Mark]

Nice!

[saga arpino]

nice video.

but

really nice words.

a call i know i haven't taken up

[Dave]

Jonny, great vid - did you find a high res version and can we use it and the words for CMS Sydney? We have our annual conf coming up in Jan and it could be very useful

Here is a vid we currently have embedded as an ad on Christian Today (au version)

http://au.christiantoday.com/missions/

[jonny]

dave hi! get the dvd i mention in the post above and that will be high res.

[David Derbyshire]

Thanks for this Jonny. We used this as part of our personal sacred space last night. We combined in with resources from Sue Wallace’s 'Multi-sensory Prayer' and from Tess Ward’s 'Celtic Wheel of the Year'. We had a theme of looking backwards and forwards at the end of summer as we were putting the clocks back. It worked well.

[David at free Christian resources]

Great post. I've even highlighted it at my blog I liked it so much!