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Friday, August 15, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
This fall I have a couple of small teaching contracts. And as I've started to dig through past teaching material I came across one of my all time favorite quotes:
"Art in it's pure for is a reflection of the Lord's nature as the Master Creator. The universe is the Lord's canvas and He delights in the diversity and beauty of His creation. He delights in making every snowflake different, every person different, every day different." (Yet today many churches are) "generally one of the most confined, predictable, boring and void of spontaneity of any institution on earth. This is because of our departure from true worship...
Art, by it's creative nature, must always seek the new, the fresh, and push back the outer limits. Therefore, the artist is often in danger of crossing the line into error...But without the freddom of the artist, we are already captured by the dead form that has no life. When the church has returned to true worship, true art will have also been recovered and promoted as one form of that worship. This is an art that transcends glorifying the creation to that which imparts awe and wonder of the blessed Creator that is reflected through the wonders of His Creation.
The Lord jesus said that ther publicans and harlots would enter the kingdom of God before the Pharisees and other most righteous men in Israel. The demonic religious spirit that worked in the prebailing religion of that day was farther from the heart of God than many of the great sinners of the land. In the same way, homosexuals and radical artists who have fallen to some of the lowest forms of perversion are still in fact much closer to the ture worship of God than many chruches.
It is because of this that Satan will increasingly try to put...art..communities at enmity with the church in order to made the chasm between them much greater. But the Lord is going to raise up Christian leaders with the vision to recapture true art for the church, which is the rightful property of the church. These will have to brave brutal assaults from religious paranoids, but the domain that is retaken is retaken will be worth the price.
...Art..is in a sense, a barometer in society that measures how bright and pute the light of the church that is shining...The true worship of God is fueled by a creativity that will make all perverted art forms pale and uninteresting by comparison." Rick Joyner, The Harvest, pgs. 75-77
"Art in it's pure for is a reflection of the Lord's nature as the Master Creator. The universe is the Lord's canvas and He delights in the diversity and beauty of His creation. He delights in making every snowflake different, every person different, every day different." (Yet today many churches are) "generally one of the most confined, predictable, boring and void of spontaneity of any institution on earth. This is because of our departure from true worship...
Art, by it's creative nature, must always seek the new, the fresh, and push back the outer limits. Therefore, the artist is often in danger of crossing the line into error...But without the freddom of the artist, we are already captured by the dead form that has no life. When the church has returned to true worship, true art will have also been recovered and promoted as one form of that worship. This is an art that transcends glorifying the creation to that which imparts awe and wonder of the blessed Creator that is reflected through the wonders of His Creation.
The Lord jesus said that ther publicans and harlots would enter the kingdom of God before the Pharisees and other most righteous men in Israel. The demonic religious spirit that worked in the prebailing religion of that day was farther from the heart of God than many of the great sinners of the land. In the same way, homosexuals and radical artists who have fallen to some of the lowest forms of perversion are still in fact much closer to the ture worship of God than many chruches.
It is because of this that Satan will increasingly try to put...art..communities at enmity with the church in order to made the chasm between them much greater. But the Lord is going to raise up Christian leaders with the vision to recapture true art for the church, which is the rightful property of the church. These will have to brave brutal assaults from religious paranoids, but the domain that is retaken is retaken will be worth the price.
...Art..is in a sense, a barometer in society that measures how bright and pute the light of the church that is shining...The true worship of God is fueled by a creativity that will make all perverted art forms pale and uninteresting by comparison." Rick Joyner, The Harvest, pgs. 75-77
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