tomorrow we begin our regular meetings of "eikon" our artistic small group communities. the vision behind these groups is that they challenge members to enhance their art craft & practice and produce it in the light of their spiritual practice. we feel that what they put out through their artistic passion reflects their inner spiritual self. this may be a small part, but we see this recapture of arts in spiritual practice will help to save the church. someone might give great light to how God is seen in this growing world or maybe we will have a bunch of average folks who are creative in thought in engaging a new world with a traditional church.

some of our vision for this has been affirmed by the message of sir ken robinson. you’ve seen him here before, his ted talk is required visiting. he’s featured all over, and i’ve been digesting some of his works to see where his message for the educational system and church systems can overlap. i would encourage all my church cohorts out there, if you do not have an arts element to your program, get with it. you might just save the church as well.

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in somewhat related ideas. hear from the youth yourself. these teachers did.