I’ve been doing my best to post all the original videos our church does on YouTube and now on MetaCafe.
I posted a video showing the recent baptisms at encounter on MetaCafe and within the last week or so it’s already been viewed more than 650 times.
Today there was a very interesting comment on the video page:
didn’t actually get it
wat r they doin?wat does it mean encounter baptisms?
It got me thinking about several things.
- There are people out there that don’t understand our Christianeze (Christian lingo). It’s so easy to forget when we get caught in our Christian circles and bubbles that we forget the rest of the world doesn’t know what we’re talking about. If all we talk to is Christian people and only talk about Christian things, the outside world probably looks at us and can’t understand a thing we’re saying. Just like the American Life episode Pray talked about.
- I could have posted the video on GodTube. Sure, it’s a “Christian” video and GodTube is a “Christian web site” and “Christians who understand our lingo” use the website but who is that really reaching out to? If we keep retreating to our Christian ghettos then who in the world is going to tell mr bako or others what baptism is or why we do it?
- Video is a POWERFUL medium. I could blog about baptism all day long but my words are limited, seeing what baptism is in video form really shows people what it’s all about.
- Viral videos and Web 2.0 are even more POWERFUL. Within minutes and days of posting the baptism video on MetaCafe, the video was available on my blog, the encounter blog and it was being shared all over Myspace and e-mail. The families being represented were sharing the video with their friends and family members. And they were passing it along to more people and more people – hopefully moving outside the Christian ghetto.
It just makes me think and realize – we need to be producing more content that’s available to everyone and understandable to everyone. What are you and your church doing?