GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
(Friday) The Good Friday services that our community ministerial association puts together continue to improve year after year. And that's a difficult assignment considering that they are usually put together by an ad hoc committee of pastors -- coming from very varying (mostly non-) liturgical backgrounds. This time they followed the pattern of a traditional tenebrae service.

I could have done without the PowerPoint images of Bible scenes (borrowed from several movies) flashing on the screen while people are reading the biblical passages. I have a hard time hearing what they're reading (really hearing) when my attention is continually diverted to a new screen image. Apparently, though, a lot of people connect with that. As a matter of fact the Jesus Film, the movie which has been shown to more people than any other in history, is simply the reading of scripture with movie images. I suppose that my problem is that I'm such a visually oriented person that I want to focus on the changing image -- to the point of distraction.