Job of the Arts Minister- Must See Video
28 September 2009
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What’s the job of the Arts Pastor? What does it mean to the artists sitting in the congregation?
Does the church set the artist free?
See and hear what Ph.D., author, filmmaker and professor Craig Detweiller said about the topic.
Dr. Detweiller is also the director the Center for Entertainment, Media, and Culture (the EMC) at Pepperdine University. You can find his blog here>>
Special thanks goes out to Joey O’Conner of The Grove Center for the Arts and Media for bringing this video to my attention.
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This is my vision, what I’ve wanted to do and what AMOK is all about. the question is how do I get there from here?
Hey Dave-
When I first heard this, you and your ministry immediately came to mind.
What I teach my entrepreneurship students when it comes to how to walk out the Vision is to start by writing down specific goals that tie in to that Vision.
The written goals should be specific, with a specific deadline and measurable. But it all statrts with WRITING the vision down:
“And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.” Habakkuk 2:2
Writing the Vision simplifies it (”make it plain”) and spells it out so clearly that others can get excited about it and join in (”that he may run that readeth it”).
We always have visions, before a thing is made real.
God gives us vision, then He takes us down to the valley and batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give up.
Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
God is never in a hurry.
Ever since we had the vision God has been at work, getting us into shape of the ideal, but we escape from His hand and try to batter ourselves into our own shape.
Don’t loose heart in the process.
If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.
“My Utmost For His Highest,” by Oswald Chambers
This helped me, when I assumed I was sitting on the Potter’s wheel too long.
WOW! Great post! This is so true. Such a relevant subject because a lot of churches aren’t allowing artist to be free. They are taking artists and making them administrators, and pastors, and operational people and not allowing and even stifling the God-given gift of the artists. It’s time for the artists to be revealed in the church.
Great post Tony!
a wonderfully impassioned speech — makes me want to do an arts rant of my own! (and i just might)
there are a lot of things that i like about this video — the role of the [arts] pastor to simply pastor/ shepherd (”release/ unleash”) the artist in the local congregation. and not only the artists, but everyone’s inherent creativity. i also like the references to serving the local community, not only by releasing the congregation’s song in the community but also telling their story (stories?) in an artistic or creative way.
the second part – does the church set the artist free? – raised some questions for me. yes, the church was a patron of the arts in times past, but the church also was a patron of excellence. i think that part of the church’s role as a patron also necessarily involves an ability to distinguish and determine (perhaps even discern) what work or which artists are worthy of patronage and support. the question i have is: why exactly was the church the main patron before? what was the impetus behind its patronage? status? power? didacticism? evangelismo? and why were “the arts” a focus? and how does that play out now? and what does it mean that the church was a locus? what does that mean for us as part of a community (or communities)?
the last section and its repeated emphasis on beauty was also quite generative. dostoevsky said that “beauty will save the world”. beauty as a theological concept is a driving force for much of the theology of art, and there is a moral component to the idea that is crucial to our activity as artists, let alone christians. i especially like craig’s question: how can we create moments of beauty, truth and splendour that cause us to pause? and, presumably, ponder. reflect. open ourselves up to the possibility and capacity of art to move us.
i do wonder, however, of the emphasis that somehow the 21c is purely a “visual century” and of rushing headlong to embrace every form and expression of that visual culture. in his other do you see? video (this one is #2) craig speaks of slowing down. perhaps the inundation of images (depending on your source, we are bombarded with anywhere from 4,000 to 20,000 images a day) is more a matter of the incessant demand rather than visuality. how do we create that place of [visual] rest?
certainly, lots of grist for the mill…
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