Every year at my Alma mater (The University of Alabama, which has a sweet website by the way) students and faculty put on what is called the “Last Lecture Series“.
Here is the description from their website:
The Last Lecture features a University of Alabama faculty member nominated and selected by students to answer one question in the form of a highly engaging lecture: “If this were your last time to address a group of students, what would you say to them?
I love this idea and I was thinking about doing something like this at my church.
Perhaps we could do it in the form of several weeks of guest speakers and staff pastors answering the question:
If this were your last sermon, what would you say?
So many times, these sermons are only heard before someone leaves the church. Don’t get my wrong, they are poweful then but I think the intentionality behind the idea, especially if no one is leaving or quitting, makes it that much better.
So, I have been wondering.
What would I say? I think I would talk about life as perception and expectations. That those two things drive and determine our spiritual depth.
But hey, maybe you aren’t an on-stage communicator. No worries.
- What video would you make?
- What graphic would you design?
- What song would you sing?
- What picture would you take?
I think the best part, is that it’s all about passion and inclusion.
We give hundreds of messages at our churches, produce dozens of videos, folded so many incredible looking bulletins, sung songs every weekend, taken a bazillion pictures but if we could only say one thing through our desired medium, what would it be.
What would it be for you? And how would you say it (video, graphic, sermon, etc.)?
BenJPickett says
There are several colleges that do the last lecture. And the book, that was actually a professors last lecture before he passed from cancer, and served as the motivation for these lectures is a huge wake up call to life. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.
Blane Young says
I figured that several did – I loved that a lot of students at our campus really made the event happen!
I will have to check it out, thanks!