Your best bet is to get a good stand-up/parlor style show and pitch it to churches. Tell them to have a teens night and make it everybody's mission to invite a non-christian. Now your job is to open them up with magic that deals with biblical themes, but don't over do it or become preachy. Make it fun and use humor (something almost gone from most churches) and enjoy the moment.
I'm not a christian and will never do a christian-themed event, but the market is open and many magicians who are christians aren't tapping into it, so it could be a good ministry if you wanted to do it. Maybe try and get up with christian camps/events and ask if they want a christian magician.
Just a few thoughts, seeing as how approaching strangers on the street and tricking them (both with magic...and your reasons for showing). If you have friends who have questions, using magic to help explain what you're saying couldn't hurt though.
Great idea. I myself wouldn't only do church shows, but it is a great venue, largely untapped. Magician Brock Gill does this. Never seen him, but he looks really good.
hey buddy i am glad you came by...what i'm doing is more ministry through helping...i'm hosting shows and a higher percent of the proceeds always go to the needy family.....
i am tryign to make my shwo bigger by doing more of my original stuff as well as other magicians work...that in all will alow me to do more and show more, and i can help out even bigger....
This sparks in my mind a similar interesting topic, how would one go about using magic to promote/speak to a cause that they are passionate about? Perhaps a social justice cause? Thinking more in terms of the theatre, where most of it is trying to "say" something important. Entertainment for the sake of entertainment vs trying to "accomplish" something more "meaningful" (I say that relatively).
justin