Let me start by saying
that this is in no means an attempt to construct a formal paper. This is a blog. This is my (rather weak) attempt to dump everything in this little skull of mine into a place where I can find it later. So there's no need to critique it in formal terms. I'm not going to go out of my way to drop references or qualify anything that I say with quotations from experts. Consider this a "popular essay," where I will try to present what I feel is important in hopes that you will, upon reading it, find it important, too.
Secondly,
I don't know if this has been done before. I've spent a good amount of time researching improv comedy and haven't found anything similar... perhaps I'm simply a terrible researcher. But if there's something else out there that you could say I'm deriving a lot of this from, let me know! I'd love to find someone else out there that feels the same way that I do! Alas, if there is, I haven't found him. Or her. If it's a her, most definitely let me know. Post-haste.
What am I going to attempt?
This is an open letter to the church-at-large. I believe that improv comedy has stumbled over a method by which a community can strengthen itself in very productive and surprisingly painless ways. I believe that it has been overlooked as "silly" for far too long. In so many words, I believe that improv comedy can revolutionize the way that the church deals with personal growth, in-house conflicts, creative stagnation, community outreach, team-building, and many other facets of church life that have heretofore been dealt with in too many disparate ways. This is an attempt to synthesize all previous attempts into a single, encompassing formula.
This may sound a bit naive,
but I plan on laying it on thick. I have a million things to say. This is simply the introduction. I pray that I'll have the wherewithal to stick with it until the end.
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