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'Pastor's cut' DVDs offer outtakes, bloopers
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UTICA, N.Y. — Pastor Bob Templeton wanted to goose sales of his slow-selling DVD sermon series, so he began shoehorning more than four hours of bonus material onto each disc, including audio commentary, "Easter eggs" and a blooper reel.
"You get more on the DVD than you would by just attending on Sunday morning," says Templeton proudly.
His Pastor's Cut series includes bonus teaching and word studies by Templeton, clips of him preparing his sermon and an audio commentary he gives over his own sermon.
"It's a pretty big dose of the pastor," says one viewer.
The most popular feature is the blooper reel which includes flubbed moments in the sermon, funny outtakes and foyer interviews with people who sometimes poke fun at the sermon they just heard.
But some in the church worry that Templeton is caught up in making the DVDs and is neglecting his primary duties.
"The sermons have been a little thin, and he's really hyping the DVDs," says one church member who notes the movie-style posters around the foyer, and the prominent plugs for the DVDs in the bulletin and at the end of every sermon.
Secretaries who deliver phone messages to Templeton during his study time sometimes find him engrossed in editing.
"We kind of wish the tech guys hadn't shown him how to use iMovie," says an associate.
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"You get more on the DVD than you would by just attending on Sunday morning," says Templeton proudly.
His Pastor's Cut series includes bonus teaching and word studies by Templeton, clips of him preparing his sermon and an audio commentary he gives over his own sermon.
"It's a pretty big dose of the pastor," says one viewer.
The most popular feature is the blooper reel which includes flubbed moments in the sermon, funny outtakes and foyer interviews with people who sometimes poke fun at the sermon they just heard.
But some in the church worry that Templeton is caught up in making the DVDs and is neglecting his primary duties.
"The sermons have been a little thin, and he's really hyping the DVDs," says one church member who notes the movie-style posters around the foyer, and the prominent plugs for the DVDs in the bulletin and at the end of every sermon.
Secretaries who deliver phone messages to Templeton during his study time sometimes find him engrossed in editing.
"We kind of wish the tech guys hadn't shown him how to use iMovie," says an associate.
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