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Church Spotlight, continued... 
How do you use Oxygen multimedia graphics in your service?
We use Oxygen in 3 main ways. First, we use it as a teaching tool in Pastor Martino's sermons. We use the different backgrounds as skins to lay our point system against, so that when Pastor Martino is presenting to the congregation they are able to follow the points. Second, we use it with our quarterly newsletter. We will pull from the JPEGs and use that in the newsletter, and having the flexible licensing available as a Premier Plus member is very helpful. And third, we use Oxygen in our Bible Institute. I'm one of the teachers that uses it weekly to just teach from. I prepare a PowerPoint presentation each week, and when we go in in the morning we teach right from the slides.
What has been the response to using graphics with your sermons?
What we've noticed in using visual graphics is that it's a phenomenal tool, not only to capture the congregation's attention, but to keep their attention through the entire service. In a traditional sermon, people are hearing with their ears, and that's it. But now through the visual aid we're able to actually capture 3 different senses now in the worship experience.
They hear and see, of course, but when you put points up in front of people, they start taking notes. We don't even have to tell people anymore to bring their pencil and paper, they're just doing it. It's almost human nature to take notes when you see key points visually. So now by using visual graphics, people are using 3 of their 5 senses in the worship experience. And we're seeing folks just grow phenomenally as a result. |
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