A Celebration, A Concern, and A Calling! - Religious Piece

A Celebration, A Concern, and A Calling! - Religious Piece

A Celebration!

Strike up the band! Get the confetti ready! Pull out the chips and

salsa! Let the celebration begin! The arts are back in the church!

That’s right folks, there is a revival going on across the nation.

Churches everywhere are embracing the arts with a renewed fire and

passion. Praise the Lord for His infinite creativity. But wait, it

gets better. The church is welcoming a diverse selection of artistic

gifts and reaching beyond the expected and familiar to brave new

frontiers. Spend a month visiting different churches in you area and

you may be surprised at the art forms you experience in worship.

Dance, painting, sculpting, graphic design, poetry, music from

different cultures and styles, strange and wonderful instruments from

far away places, and yes, drama. No longer content to follow the

masses, the church universal is beginning to lead again, to be

innovative and cutting edge creative. There are so many reasons to

celebrate.

A Concern…

On the front lines of this movement, there are also some faint

rumblings, murmurs, and whispers that are cause for concern. As I’ve

talked with artistic leaders from churches of different denominations,

from different parts of the country and even different countries I

have been hearing something interesting. It sounds a little like

this…”Our Pastor doesn’t give us the sermon topics soon enough.”

“You’re lucky, we don’t even get to pick our own scripts, the Pastor

picks them for us and we have to do what he wants.” “Can you believe

it! They want us to do an announcement skit!” “Drama is not supp...

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...s family, in his

eyes…he is the least of the least. And here comes The Angel of the

Lord…calling him a mighty warrior. My friends, as small as we may

feel, artists are mighty warriors for the Lord. We are called to take

back stolen property…the arts.

Judges 6:25-26

“…Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole

beside it. Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on

the top of this bluff. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you

cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.”

God called Gideon to reclaim His stolen property. We can tear down

the altar society has built to worship the arts, and use drama to

worship our Father God, the Heavenly Artist. We can offer our art as

a sacrifice of worship. When we begin to do this…the celebrating

truly begins!