“High-quality video teaching for churches everywhere… for free!” That’s the claim from videoteaching.com – a website recently launched by LifeChurch.tv. I hope that it will be a useful resource for preaching Jesus. Check out the about page. What do you think?
They have 14 preachers providing sermons from their church to share on the site: 4 of them I know and like; a whole bunch I don’t know well enough to comment; and then there’s some who are a bit sketchy. Here’s the full list:
- Mark Batterson
- Francis Chan
- Wayne Cordeiro
- Mark Driscoll
- Jentzen Franklin
- Steven Furtick
- Scotty Gibbons
- Craig Groeschel
- Brian Houston
- Clayton King
- John Lindell
- Perry Noble
- Dino Rizzo
- Paul Scanlon
This sort of thing is more useful for individual study, rather than for use at church meetings, IMO…
Who are the 4 you “know and like”?
chan
driscoll
furtick
groeschel
no plans on revealing the ones i think are a bit sketchy!!
I think it’s not altogether amazing since a lot of those speakers already put their sermon content online.
It also cheapens what church is to reduce it to people gathering in a room and listening to a stranger. Craig is right, it’s fine for individual study. (That’s why I don’t like Driscoll’s idea to just pipe out his sermons to overseas gatherings and call it a church or campus plant.)
And, given there are just as many sketchy teachers on the list as there are good ones already, the content on the site probably won’t be the result of thoughtful discernment…
I suppose the best thing is it’s now all in one place?
I was excited when I first saw your post – finally, some help for people who are starting out wanting to make videos for their church! But lame. I guess I’m really not much of a fan of the whole ‘using a video for your sermon’ thing. We get so distracted by the coolness of the video that we forgive the way people handle the Bible. I’m really keen on the idea of using video to illustrate a point, or for your announcements, or just provoking questions (though we’ve really gotta get better at doing all that legally). Some of this stuff will be good to use at particular times, but if we’re regularly using this kind of stuff, I think it either means we’re getting lazy or are too keen to be cool.