"Man-Up" Series Brainstorming

[Brad Loser]

Our church is doing a series beginning in September called "Man-Up". They By-Line will be "Overcoming male passivity in the church, home and culture"

Sermon Titles
"Whose Pants Are They" - an introduction to the series

"A Real Man" - A look at Jesus from a masculine perspective

"Man and Wife" - A look at why women need a MAN in the marriage

"Man of the House" - A look at why the family needs a MAN at the helm, this talk is focused on fatherhood


Any and all creative element ideas you have would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Songs, videos, dramas, stage design etc......

[dan_tone]

good idea for a series.

[milepost13]

Very cool series! We used an old Geoff Moore song called "Desperate Men" at a men's conference last year that went over really well....just make sure it's an all guy band performing on the stage. :)

Nate

[worshiptrench]

We did a series with the exact same Title...have mailer, pre-message bump, graphics packages, orders of services and everything. Private message me and I'll see what I can get into hands.

For an example of the humorous interactive mailer we did, see http://www.worshiptrench.com/?p=332

Also, having Tommy Maddox of the (much hated in Dallas) Steelers was huge. He graduated from a local high school and his testimony was awesome.

[NLoomis]

Yeah, you could contrast the kinda-girly-looking-playing-with-kids-and-sheep picture of Jesus with a fire-in-His-eyes-driving-the-moneychangers-out-of-the-Temple-with-a-whip Jesus.

I mean, let's think about it: Jesus was a carpenter who hung out with fishermen and walked everywhere he went. I mean, everybody but the religious leaders seemed to like Him, but let's face it, He didn't smell like lillies and lilacs or look like John Lennon.

I like it. Most churches are way too girly.

Nathan

[Brad Loser]

yeah - we are probably going to use the "JESUS" videos the VINTAGE21 in raleigh produced. we've used one before and it REALLY provoked a lot of good conversations about it.

Here's the lineup so far for PRESENTATIONAL SONGS that we will be doing during that series.

Brad Paisley - "I'm Still a Guy" (edited for content)
Downhere - "THE REAL JESUS"
Bonnie Raitt - "A REAL MAN"
Keith Urban - "Song For Dad"

we're in Texas YA'LL - - they love the country stuff down here - - it hits home.

the congregationals will all be built around the cross and gospel for all 4 weeks and we are writing an original song that may or may not be played every week - but will definitely be used the final week

[worshiptrench]

You know technically you cannot alter the Paisley song without breaking a copyright law, right? You cannot change lyrics to songs without written permission. We were considering it, but so many of our peeps know the real words, that we thought it pointless because they'd know the real stuff and think it cheesy we altered them, thus skipped the arduous task of writing the publishing house.

Hey how about For Him's "I wanna be a man that you could write about someday..." (Okay, maybe not).

[Brad Loser]

now why did you have to go and bring the law into all of this....HAHA!!!

We are aware of this and will probably end up pulling it - but it's in the slot at the moment, which is why I posted it.

Thanks for the look out!

[worshiptrench]

or worse some redneck (Brent even???) would sing the real words on accident. woops.

we did some hilarious opening bumps

sample A:

*shot of TV of Oprah with her telling a kid, b/c you were so kind hearted you get to go to Disney Land
*draw back from TV to see two dudes sitting on a couch one with feet on the sofa table...
*shot pans around front to reveal total bachelor pad with two dudes sitting on couch (complete with Dale Earnhardt poster behind them).
*One guy is sniffling and the other guys rolls his eyes and reaches up and hands him a tissue.
*Sniffling guy says, "Thanks man"
*Other guy rolls his eyes
*quick cut to a thud sound as our man up logo comes crashing down across the screen and narrator says deeply Man Up.


sample B (we did this series in march madness)
*bunch of guys standing around small talk about their final 4 pick and one guy says everyone let me see your brackets
*guy comes running up apart from group and hollers "wait, wait, am I too late."
* someone from the group asks who did you pick
*run up guy says, Siena....
*"what?" everybody groans
*guy pulls out swatches of siena's colors and says, "Yeah have you seen their uniforms? they'd match my skin tones so well"
*man up logo crashes onto the screen.

[NLoomis]

or worse some redneck (Brent even???) would sing the real words on accident. woops.

we did some hilarious opening bumps

sample A:

*shot of TV of Oprah with her telling a kid, b/c you were so kind hearted you get to go to Disney Land
*draw back from TV to see two dudes sitting on a couch one with feet on the sofa table...
*shot pans around front to reveal total bachelor pad with two dudes sitting on couch (complete with Dale Earnhardt poster behind them).
*One guy is sniffling and the other guys rolls his eyes and reaches up and hands him a tissue.
*Sniffling guy says, "Thanks man"
*Other guy rolls his eyes
*quick cut to a thud sound as our man up logo comes crashing down across the screen and narrator says deeply Man Up.


sample B (we did this series in march madness)
*bunch of guys standing around small talk about their final 4 pick and one guy says everyone let me see your brackets
*guy comes running up apart from group and hollers "wait, wait, am I too late."
* someone from the group asks who did you pick
*run up guy says, Siena....
*"what?" everybody groans
*guy pulls out swatches of siena's colors and says, "Yeah have you seen their uniforms? they'd match my skin tones so well"
*man up logo crashes onto the screen.

I laughed so hard when I saw that. Great job!

You could also do a more serious one like:
* teenage daughter coming downstairs wearing a too-short skirt
* dad looks conflicted, voiceover of his internal monologue...
* dad says, "honey, can we talk about your outfit?"
* daughter huffs, "all the girls are wearing these, etc."
* daughter leaves with dad standing there looking like a kicked puppy
* logo flies in, Man up!

Nathan

[russhutto]

Is that byline set in stone?

Seems a bit wordy and people like me need a dictionary to figure out what it means...

I kid, I kid...

or do I?