Art as Worship (pg 5)

Art as Worship / September 2009

Thu, Aug 27, 2009

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Jeremy Flinn < 4 5 6 > Brad Pribbenow

David-headshot David Pierce
Youth Pastor and Freelance Graphic Designer / Olympia, Washington
Music

I wish there was more creativity coming out of our churches. Not in the sense that the creativity needs to be directly targeted at our Sunday morning services, but that each one of us is creative in our own way. How can we influence the world? I've had the blessing of time recently to pursue different avenues of creativity. I've been writing music, thinking up ideas from ministry approaches, and even writing a book on relationships. These avenues aren't directly focused at our church services, but they are focused at encouraging the body.
What are ways you can create? It doesn't need to be in traditional forms such as art and music. What about in conversation? In planning? In relationships? Maybe it's appreciating and enabling those who are in the creative process? The church should be a hotbed of expressing the Lord's beauty in many ways. I'm excited to see that develop.