Get Creative: Communicate Scale
By christopherlyon
In some ways, those who seek to lead others in worshipping God face a similar challenge to those who seek to lead others to appreciate astronomy: The spaces and sizes and vastness involved can quickly overwhelm and deaden our response to the very things that should blow our minds.
Our God is big, even bigger than the distance between the Sun and Pluto. How can we possibly begin to communicate the idea of that kind of bigness? One approach is to find a way to demonstrate scale.
That’s what Mishka Henner does with this 12-volume set of books that simply show pictures of our solar system but with the width of every page representing 1 million kilometers. The video below is long, but you’ll get the idea pretty quickly. It just shows a pair of hands leafing through the first (and likely most exciting) of the 12-part series, which includes the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt.
What could you do with scale to help lead others to appreciate God’s vast size, scope, love, grace, mercy or patience — and worship him for it?
ASTRONOMICAL - The Movie from Mishka Henner on Vimeo.
