Reggie Grant, a former Dallas Seminary professor of mine is
an author, actor great speaker and an accomplished public
dramatic reader. He is also very creative man in general.
One day as I was thinking through a five day series of talks
He sat me down and asked a series of questions. What color
do you see as you imagine this series of talks? What type of
music is playing in your head? What do you smell as you think
about your theme? He forced me to think
outside of the box.
He was also simultaneously drawing circles,
and attaching lines to more circles. All of a sudden
I saw new relationships and new ideas emerging before
my eyes. I saw a map emanating from my original starting point.
What Reggie introduced me to that day many years ago was
a very cool thinking tool called mind mapping. Today I use
this tool for creating my ideas for sermons,presentations concepts
and themes. I use it to literally brainstorm my way
out of the normal, the usual and find my new edge of thinking.
What I needed was something to help me break out of the humdrum,
mundane fenced in, stale, boring ideas. I wanted something fresh,
inspired, something new and exciting. This process helps me to get there every week.
