This is old, but I love it. There’s something beautiful and fun about watching and listening to a song played from a moving cab. The song will never be played quite this way again. The people walking by on the sidewalk or sitting on a bus become participants in a one of a kind experience. One of guitars is just out of tune. The camera work isn’t that great, but still pretty amazing considering they’re crammed in a car with two musicians with guitars, a cab driver and recording equipment.
An experience like this is wonderful, not because it’s reproducible, on the contrary, it’s beautiful because it’s can not be reproduced. The desire to shoot it again, only better, would loose the beauty of the original.
When we in the church attempt to duplicate or reproduce an experience, we all miss out. I understand quality control. I understand efficiency. But efficiency is often the enemy of beauty.
When we in the church are able to see our mistakes, our slightly out of tune projects as part of the music God can use to create beauty, it will be because we’ve stopped hoarding experience making as leaders and given it back to the people in our communities.
You can’t make someone have a positive experience. No matter what the matrix you run it through.
If you have 3 services on Sunday morning, with the same band, speaker and “production” – you know that you are going to have 3 different experiences. First because there are different people involved in the experience. Second, because different mistakes will be made by the people involved. Different things will be said.
This is intrinsically a good thing because the people not involved in the planning of the experience get to be participants, even on some small level, as they get to appreciate the defects and the beauty of seeing something unique together.
But then again, you might not like mistakes, or be able to see beauty in them.
you may believe that a perfect service, is the best kind of service. I’m sure you have some measurement for that. I’m just not certain, Jesus would always agree. 
What do you think?
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