Welcome to this week's sermon from Amblecote Community Church.

Hey, thank you very much, Adrian.

Lovely to see you all.

I have been here before, I don't know, like every now and again, once a year, whatever, come on through.

And this one is, I'm just very excited about this.

There's a, that, where is it? Yeah, set apart and sent, those words.

I found this lovely passage.

here.

Yeah.

"What are you gonna do?" It's like just trying to portray the intention of Jesus.

And I-- you can-- it's hard to do that unless you then, like I've just done, you explain it for ages, and then you spend like eight minutes of your twenty-five-minute sermon explaining one point, and you've got loads of other things to do, haven't you? Whereas this, you're doing it in a moment.

People are maybe getting it.

They're probably not getting it rationally, but there's something is happening in them where they're perceiving it.

And then finally, in the film, I'm, I've been experimenting with John on film and the-- in Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus' feet.

I've done a, a sort of proof of concept film where we're going, how do we, how do we interpret the line, "The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume?" Which is a stunning line, full-- uh, redolent with it's the tabernacle, it's the temple, it's Song of Songs, it's everything.

Just as a final thought, Martin, as we close up this conversation, but it'd be good to hear how you would encourage both creatives and church leaders to embrace this kind of more artistic vision for proclaiming the kingdom and the presence of God.