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beauty’s compassAs you come in, grab 2-3 other people As you come in, grab 2-3 other people and take time answering the following and take time answering the following question:question:
Share a time in your life that beauty Share a time in your life that beauty filled you with awe, wonder, or filled you with awe, wonder, or inspiration? ‘A favorite movie or book, a inspiration? ‘A favorite movie or book, a building or stretch of natural landscape, building or stretch of natural landscape, a certain concert, a song, a piece of art... a certain concert, a song, a piece of art... Share what it was and what it felt like for Share what it was and what it felt like for you.you.
curating worship as collective art of
faith•intro: why does beauty draw us in?
•mission and ecclesiology
•worship theology
•past precedent-based goals/evals
•organizing for a future distinct from the past
•speaking
•writing: Getting Drawn In, Fall 2012 Paraclete
•music: songstoprayby.kickstarter.com
•consulting/ design thinking team needed
curating worship as collective art of
faith
•intro: why does beauty draw us in?
•mission and ecclesiology
As Church goes... so goes worship.
(Church could be a verb)
•Many act as if the work of the church leadership is getting people to join some invisible community (noun) and that worship is a program in service of that goal.
•I suggest that to “church” (verb) is instead the practice of sharing stories, practices and intentions such that people are put into play within the dreams of God for the healing of the world.
“The new world is at the center of everything
Christianity is about...The hope for the future is not just for us… it is the hope for the whole world… God
is going to do for the entire cosmos in the end what God did for Jesus at
Easter.” -N.T. Wright
the new world
one instrumentalismGod’ art is finished
Church’s art is dynamic
PrecedenceGod’s art is finishedChurch’s art is fixed
One InstrumentalismGod’ art is finished
Church’s art is dynamic
PrecedenceGod’s art is finishedChurch’s art is fixed
another instrumentalism
God’s art is dynamicChurch’s art is fixed
RelevanceGod’ art is finished
Church’s art is dynamic
Missional InnovationGod’s art continues
Church’s art continues
PrecedenceGod’s art is finishedChurch’s art is fixed
FormGod’s art is dynamicChurch’s art is fixed
RelevanceGod’ art is finished
Church’s art is dynamic
Missional InnovationGod’s art continues
Church’s art continues
PrecedenceGod’s art is finishedChurch’s art is fixed
FormGod’s art is dynamicChurch’s art is fixed
• time: when, and how long you gather.
• space: where you meet, how your space functions
• material: bibles, power point, chairs, robes, wine, juice, notebooks
But if church is a verb,
then what are the nouns?
• time: other days of the week, times of day.
• space: what are safe spaces in your neighborhood, what spaces do you discount or reject, what part of your church are underutilized.
• material: what other CDs, art, or fashion do you have at your disposal?
If church is a verb,
then what are the other nouns?
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DOMAIN (ADHERENTS, PROPONENTS)
CREATIVE
FIELD OF EXPERTS (GUARDIANS, EXPLORERS)
www.churchasart.com
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DOMAIN (ADHERENTS, PROPONENTS)
CREATIVE
FIELD OF EXPERTS (GUARDIANS, EXPLORERS)
www.churchasart.com
www.churchasart.com
What if the memes weren’t :
{ sacraments, pews, bibles, Polity }
www.churchasart.com
What if the memes were :
{ all time, space, matter/ sacred & profane }
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DOMAIN (Protestant “true” church)
CREATIVE (pastor theologian)
FIELD OF EXPERTS(magistrate, clergy, elders)
www.churchasart.com
{ sacraments, pews, bibles, Polity }
DOMAIN (PROTESTANT “TRUE” CHURCH)
CREATIVE (PASTOR/THEOLOGIAN)
FIELD OF EXPERTS(MAGISTRATE, CLERGY, ELDERS)
www.churchasart.com
DOMAIN (GOD’S WORLD)
CREATIVE (ECCLESSIA)
FIELD OF EXPERTS(ALL ON WHOM GOD’S GOOD WILL
RESTS)
www.churchasart.com
DOMAIN (GOD’S WORLD)
CREATIVE (ECCLESSIA)
{ ∑ÆÙ†√ }
FIELD OF EXPERTS(ALL ON WHOM GOD’S GOOD WILL
RESTS)
DOMAIN (GOD’S WORLD)
CREATIVE (ECCLESSIA)
FIELD OF EXPERTS(ALL ON WHOM GOD’S GOOD WILL
RESTS)
www.churchasart.com
DOMAIN (GOD’S WORLD)
CREATIVE (ECCLESSIA)
{ all time, space, matter/ sacred & profane }
FIELD OF EXPERTS(ALL ON WHOM GOD’S GOOD WILL
RESTS)
curating worship as collective art of
faith
•intro: why does beauty draw us in?
•mission and ecclesiology
•worship theology
The ReformingThe Reforming Word Word
in the beginning is the word thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path the word became flesh and dwelt among us
Gather Proclaim Respond Seal Bear Gather Proclaim Respond Seal Bear FollowFollow
Worship isdesigning
risk
“A person is in his/her own very being a
gift... however... we do not experience
ourselves as gifts until we are engaged in the
act of creativity”-Elizabeth O’Connor
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What is God Creating through
our Art of Worship?
curating worship as collective art of
faith•intro: why does beauty draw us in?
•mission and ecclesiology
•worship theology
•past precedent-based goals/evals
worship moves beyond false
choice of ‘precedents’
•“Freedom is the ether where possibility lives.” -John O’Donohue
•“The willingness to continually revise one’s location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse of education.” Elaine Scarry
Peter’s free discovery
•colors and splendor
•the voices of the past
•the ability to leave it, to occur again (tomb, pentecost, vision on the roof...)
worship opens doors
•“The poetic breaks fixed conclusions and presses us always toward new, dangerous, imaginative possibilities… This speech entrusted to and practiced by the church, is an act of relentless hope an argument against the ideological closing of life we unwittingly embrace.” -Brueggemann