http://marshill.com/media/james-jesus-s-bold-little-brother/james-3-1-12
Historically Mars Hill Church has had Mark Driscoll preaching on Sunday X, then the sermon is video-broadcast to the rest of the campuses that don't get live preaching on Sunday Y, and the sermon transcript might be ready by Sunday Z.
What's striking about the most recent sermon series and particularly the most recently preached sermon is that it "seems" like the sermon vodcast, audio and even the English language transcript all emerged fully-formed this last Sunday on the scheduled Sunday of the sermon. Historically this was impossible until recently. Were they able to put everything together the day of? Live production? Well ... no.
We know that Mars Hill simply doesn't have the kinds of producers and editors that would have a history of live film editing and video production or they wouldn't be looking for them. Here's a sample of some still-open jobs
Live Broadcast Video Producer
Production Engineer
Integration Manager - Live Production
Video Producer
Some of those jobs have been open for 20 days, some for more or less time.
They're clearly looking for media/production people with a capacity for live production, and this might imply that live production isn't something they've ventured into yet.
So Wenatchee The Hatchet has a question, how is it that the recently reported-about sermon Mark Driscoll preached got reported about and nobody spotted that there's been little precedent in the history of Mars Hill Church for them to put together a complete downloadable vodcast, podcast and full English language transcript the same day the sermon got preached? We know that's not possible in terms of live production if they're looking for people with live production experience. We also know that historically Mars Hill has spent the last few years having a custom of a roughly two week gap between the initial preaching of a sermon and the completion of an English transcript. Now maybe with more and more material being planned in advance it's possible to have everything ready by a given Sunday but for the transcript of the sermon to be available the day of? There's too much post-production work in audio and video editing and editing transcripts for readability to believe that all that could be ready day of.
It makes more sense, for the moment, to propose that the most recently downloadable sermon from Mark Driscoll was filmed in advance of the publication date for the downloadable material, but as Wenatchee The Hatchet does not attend Mars Hill Church there's no way to directly verify if the sermon that was available Sunday March 9, 2014 with full transcript as well as vodcast and podcast was preached the day of or not. There's a precedent for Driscoll to pre-film a sermon in exceptional circumstances. But this may just be speculation. The main thing is that we can see from recent job listings that Mars Hill Church seems to lack the capacity to pull off a live video production just yet.
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He didn't preach at either the 8:30 or 10:30 am Bellevue service last Sunday.
I know this topic is off topic but where are former MH attendees now attending? Any off the record recommendations?
I still attend because at least Mark preaches from the Bible, unlike so many churches in our area.
-Winston
good general question, Winston. A number of us are Presbyterians and there's a variety of options for people who consider themselves to be actually Reformed rather than "Mars Hill" Reformed. Some have gone a more Anglican route. Some have gravitated toward a more Reformed Baptist position (and, let's face it, Mars Hill would historically be Baptist but Driscoll discovered Calvin and not Zwingli so ... ). A handful have gone Lutheran, I know of a number who are now practicing Catholic and even more who switched to Eastern Orthodoxy.
There's also a group that leaned house church or away from centralized religious practice. Some are atheists or some strip of objectivist.
But what I've noticed in the no-longer young, restless and Reformed is that, anecdotally, a lot of us leaned toward something with a higher liturgical approach and a more conventional ecclesiology. A friend once described Mars Hill as a kind of spiritual high school. High school's fun while it lasts but eventually you graduate, right?
That might be a bit too broad and generic but that's at least the start of an answer to the question.
Btw, if you could field what the sermon topic was at Bellevue for March 2 and March 9 and who preached that'd be handy, Winston. :)
Off-topic, but the full audio of the 2007 SoS sermon got posted today.
Thanks. If they can get the 2002 sermon from the Proverbs series on lovemaking that would be a find to post. The explanation why may get presented later but the 2007 sermon from Scotland's just part of a much longer trend.
It appears that Mark preached on the 2nd, given the one week lag time of the sermons (http://marshill.com/media/james-jesus-s-bold-little-brother/james-3-1-12). But I'm not sure about the 9th as it hasn't been posted yet.
Thank you for the advice on churches. My wife and I talk about this almost every day. We just can't seem to find a decent church up north; the search continues.
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