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Our next Agape is right around the corner, and this one is going to be amazing.
For those of you who don’t know, Agape is a worship concert we have about every quarter. It’s a creative worship environment with different elements, videos, communion, readings, etc.
So this next one (August 3rd) is going to be very cool because we’ve got the worship band from Gateway Church (Dallas) coming in for it. If you haven’t heard these guys you need to, they are amazing. They’ve just released their second live album and its smokin.’
Here’s the art Jeff worked up for the night. I’m diggin’ the pink.
This is my creative chaos.
Filed Under church, creative, worship
I ran across this yesterday on Tony’s blog and I loved it so much I wanted to pass it on.
7 Reasons Why the Church Needs Artists
1//Only through art can we know God more fully. A person encounters God as an artist before he encounters him as a theologian. We have reduced God’s primary interests to truth and goodness. We must remember that beauty is a primary of interest of his.
2//We must see God’s world more truthfully. Only seeing one theme is insufficient. Artists must help people see both the brokenness and the promise of renewal.
3//We must embrace God’s salvation more completely. Art as morality dictates that we should create more than just “religious” art. Everything is to be redeemed. Everything is worthy of artistic representation.
4//We must worship God more humanly. Because of the image of God, humans make art. Humans create. No other organism on earth does.
5//We must believe God’s promises more confidently. We are blinded to the glory that is here now. With art, you encourage and enlarge hearts to believe the impossible.
6//We must proclaim God’s kingdom more powerfully. Truth has bigger muscles in art.
7//We need to meet God. The primary place where we experience God is in our imagination–the intersection of our mind, emotions and will.
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With the craziness of Easter right around the corner, we started doing something low key on the weekend before. Our idea was to take a weekend and make it all about the Sacraments. Last year we incorporated water baptism also, but this year we decided to really focus on communion and make it as intimate as possible. Low lights, candles, acoustic worship, and an abbreviated message centered around the last supper. Billy and Nate lead worship with a small band and they did an amazing job. I love that these weekends are the opposite of what this coming weekend will be. Bright, energetic, and loud - I love that contrast. It turned out beautiful, here are a few shots my boy Marcus took…
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If you’re in the church media field at all you should already be into the new magazine Collide (if not you really should be). But you may not be into the blog yet which is also really great, especially the latest that Scott McClellan posted. And their design work is amazing, check out the new issue’s cover here.
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Over the Christmas holidays my brother-in-law told me that earlier in the week he had gone into a grocery store and on his way in he ran face first into the glass doors of the store. Boom! He said that he had expected them to open for him and his face and pride were paying the price of his assumption.
This got me thinking, (later of course I laughed for awhile) I’d have to say that I’ve done this a lot… spiritually of course. How many times have I walked into a worship service and just expected the band, the show, or the lyric to open the doors of heaven for me. How many times have I just expected that my energy and effort is not needed to experience true worship. That simply me walking in the door triggers some mystical censor and boom I’m in the presence of God. No work on my part, no pure motives needed, just simply by walking in the door its suppose to happen, God will just unfold everything simply because I walked in. I realize that if God wants it to be that way then it can, especially for people whose attention he’s trying to get, but us “seasoned” and “mature” folks should know better. Worship is all about God, all about us giving Him the attention and energy that he deserves, its not about warm bodies singing songs in unison. I’ve heard this before and I’ve even probably said it at some point, “when I worship it feels like God is no where near me and when I pray the ceilings are brass” yada yada yada. Maybe its because we are standing outside the door, stuck in uneventful worship because the doors of heaven don’t just fling open because you walk toward the door, they fling open because you grab the handle and throw them open.
