Faith in the Arts

As a student ministry, we are heading into one of my favorite series (serieses???  I never know).  It is called "Faith in the Arts".  It usually lasts anywhere from 4-8 weeks depending on how artistic I am feeling or how many other people I can pull in.  The premise of it goes something like this...

God created everything.  I believe that everything has the ability to bring glory and honor to God.  You just have to look for it.  That is not to say you are stretching to make art honor God like a movie clip that doesn't apply for a sermon

 illustration ( I did that once with a Transformers Clip...simply because it was Transformers).  God gave breath and life to the artist that painted "The Prodigal Son" and the singer who declares, 

"These are the days of the endless summer".  They may or may not acknowledge who God is in their life, but that does not change His existence.

With that in mind we are ministering to a generation that is inundated with media and multiple inputs going at once.  My hope is that I can get their eyes to see through a medium that they have been exposed to for years.  See it differently.  Recognize that God is as present in a film of one man's struggle as He is in the mountains and ocean.  

Do you remember a few years ago those 3-D pictures that were in the mall?  They were swirls and spirals and a pattern that held another picture behind them.  For some people they were able to fix their eyes in such a way that they could see beyond the picture to what was the message behind the message.  Others never could and think they are the biggest 

waste of time.  For those who could see them, once you did it, you could always do it.  And forever, if you look at one of those pictures you could see beyond.  I want this generation to see beyond.  See that God is in the stroke of a brush or the gentle plucking of a guitar string, or a 4th position of a ballet dancer.  All God, you just have to know how to see it, and once you do you will never look at art the same way.