Wednesday 22 September 2010

Abraca - you know!

Looks like I have to be dusting off some of my props and tricks and get down to some heavy duty practice with the magic again as I'm booked to do an instructional session this weekend!

Quite a number of people get quite uptight about the idea of doing magic in a Church setting and over the years I have had some real stick regarding it. The problem being that the word 'magic' as proscribed in the Bible is actually divination, necromancy, sorcery and the like and is basically all about dealing with the supernaturally unnatural stuff associated with the devil (AKA satan, beelzebub, or whatever you'd like to use!).

Not only do I do magic in a Church setting but am part of a group of Christians who do 'Gospel magic'. The sort of magic I do is more accurately referred to as ledgermain (meaning quick-fingered or lightness of hand) and is all about illusion.

Interestingly, some of those who are antagonistic are the same people who gave me a hard time because our kids read the Harry Potter books (after we'd read them to check on their content, something we still do with books they want to read that we're not sure of). These people claim that exposure to anything supernatural, magical or the like is against that which God demands of us. Strangely though they have no problems with C S Lewis, Tolkien or other books!

So, here we go again - off to teach people to use some skills that will ensure that the kids don't take their eyes off them for the whole of their assembly - magic!

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