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The First Few Minutes Matter – Sermon Lessons from Hollywood
Around The Journey, we call it “The Hook” – it’s the first 3 to 5 minutes of the sermon that is designed to capture the attention of your audience and set the tone for the message you are to deliver.
As a communicator, I’m always looking for examples of how to ‘set the tone’ to share God’s word and ‘capture the attention’ of my too often disinterested audience.
I try to learn from many different sources…including Hollywood.
Below is a fun link to 30 Classic Opening Movie Scenes.
According to the site, these are the “First moments that sucked us in, from old-school (”Citizen Kane”) to newbies (”The Dark Knight”).”
A reminder of just how powerful the first few minutes of a movie (or sermon) can be:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/
Enjoy!
Nelson
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