You may have seen some of the French artist, Benedetto Bufalino’s, work before. He is known for transforming everyday objects, like turning wheelchairs into Mario Kart karts, changing cars or RVs into pools, adding Pac-Man characters to telephone lines, or creating aquariums out of telephone booths and backhoes.
Bufalino thinks outside the box in all of his work. He takes something as normal and every day as a car and turns it into a swimming pool. Suddenly people are stopping to look at a telephone booth like they never have before because in adding fish and water –in making it an aquarium– it changes everything and it brings attention to an object that normally gets overlooked. His outside-the-box-thinking gets everyone to see things from a different perspective.
This got me to thinking about Churches.
How many normal and everyday things in the Church do we have today, that could use some outside-the-box thinking and a change of perspective? Is it something that needs to be made all new, like taking a backhoe and making it into an aquarium? What are some things that have become so regular that we aren’t even paying attention to, and I mean, really paying attention to, anymore? Are there things that just need something that will bring attention to them again, like Pac-Man characters added to pre-existing telephone lines?
I don’t have the answers to these questions and maybe you don’t either.
But we start thinking outside the box and changing our perspective by asking questions, the answers can come later.
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Want to go deeper? Phil has been writing a series called “Church Without…” and it’s a series of think-pieces full of good, well-thought-out questions that we can ask ourselves about the Church today to start and make a change.
- Church Without Limitations: Get Moving
- Church Without Obstacles: Problem Solving
- Church Without End: Scalability
- Church Without Gaps: Human Capital
- Church Without a Building: Decentralization
- Church Without Buildings: Internet Churches
- Church Without Divisions: Hyper-Threaded Wikis
[Featured image by The Creative Exchange on Unsplash and via https://www.benedettobufalino.com/]
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