Friday, February 29, 2008
Do you think it really looks like this?
In the pantheon of great religious art, this is a first for me. Bruce Reyes-Chow puts up a picture of a Lego recreation of the Martin Luther nailing the 95 Thesis and links to Lego blogs and other such religious imagery.
What a world we live in. Do you think centuries from now stuff like this will tour the world's museums? Is this to be taken seriously, or is this just silly fun?
My answer is both.
I looked a few days ago at the fact that being creative is reflecting God's image in us. It is an act of worship and it is good. The problem is, when we create, we feel the need for audience. We want others to appreciate our creation.
Often times we do not get such audience and we feel bitter and abandoned - hurt. Why?
Sometimes we grow belligerent in our attempts to create audience. We tell people there are good and bad ways to conduct worship, right and wrong songs. We argue endlessly about the value of liturgy, and we seem to do so on the basis of what the audience will appreciate, instead of the reason for the activity to begin with. Why?
Let me ask you this - Did God have an audience when He created the universe? Nope - He did it to please Himself. So, if our creative activity is to reflect God's creative activity why do we need an audience.
What's more, we have an audience, it is an audience of one, but it is the audience that matters most. It is He whose creative activity we seek to emulate. And like your parents when you were a child, He is pleased by your efforts far more than the results.
The bottom line is this - creation is the thing, it is a means of tapping into our "imageness." Audience is a sometimes and relatively unimportant by-product. We need to learn to be creative without the need for audience.
Reaching people for Jesus is important, but it is different than being creative - we are not creative for that end, we are creative simply to be more like our Lord.
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What a world we live in. Do you think centuries from now stuff like this will tour the world's museums? Is this to be taken seriously, or is this just silly fun?
My answer is both.
I looked a few days ago at the fact that being creative is reflecting God's image in us. It is an act of worship and it is good. The problem is, when we create, we feel the need for audience. We want others to appreciate our creation.
Often times we do not get such audience and we feel bitter and abandoned - hurt. Why?
Sometimes we grow belligerent in our attempts to create audience. We tell people there are good and bad ways to conduct worship, right and wrong songs. We argue endlessly about the value of liturgy, and we seem to do so on the basis of what the audience will appreciate, instead of the reason for the activity to begin with. Why?
Let me ask you this - Did God have an audience when He created the universe? Nope - He did it to please Himself. So, if our creative activity is to reflect God's creative activity why do we need an audience.
What's more, we have an audience, it is an audience of one, but it is the audience that matters most. It is He whose creative activity we seek to emulate. And like your parents when you were a child, He is pleased by your efforts far more than the results.
The bottom line is this - creation is the thing, it is a means of tapping into our "imageness." Audience is a sometimes and relatively unimportant by-product. We need to learn to be creative without the need for audience.
Reaching people for Jesus is important, but it is different than being creative - we are not creative for that end, we are creative simply to be more like our Lord.
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