Rob Bell's CraftLab - Reflections on Preaching Pt. 1
Two weeks ago, I attended the first CraftLab event, hosted and led by Rob Bell . That's me to the left of Rob Bell in the picture you see here. I'm the guy with the computer. My friend Mike (sitting to my right) and I look vaguely like one another except he has more hair a cooler beard, and he's way smarter than me. But this is proof that I was hanging with Rob Bell. If you needed it. CraftLab was billed as a two-day, twenty-four hour workshop primarily for preachers and church communicators/teachers, although anyone working on a creative project like a book or film was encouraged to attend as well. The pre-event instructions were vague. Participants were asked to come with an idea to share, and to be familiar with Rob's teachings on creative communication as expressed in the Poets, Prophets & Preachers videos from a conference he hosted several years ago in Grand Rapids, MI . Other than that, everything was fairly wide open. T...