Art is the way a society tells stories. Art is a vehicle.
Read through some art history and it’s not very hard to see how the Church was at the forefront of making incredible art.
Read through the Bible and it’s not very hard to see how the Church had an incredible story to help people connect with.
If the Church is to get it’s foot back in the water of being a progressive art community it’s going to take more than hanging photography and oil paintings on the walls of our buildings.
If art is the way people tell stories, here are some modern day forms of art:
- the type of clothes you wear (or don’t wear)
- music
- answering the phone
- websites
- videos
- powerpoint or keynote backgrounds
- sermons
- twitter accounts
- facebook profiles
- your church announcements
- print materials
- poems
These are simply a few of the ways we can tell stories. Surely in your context, there are a lot more. Which is why it’s YOUR responsibility to figure out the way your village communicates stories and then go do it.
*(Painting above is by Makoto Fujimura)
