here is a link to my own blog on the subject(s).
I was thinking it might be cool for us to discuss how this affects our ideas on worship, both corporate and individual.
How can we see these two ideas being married together in what we are about both out in the world and in our corporate setting when we gather on Sundays?
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
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we were talking about this (albeit rather obliquely) on wednesday as it related to the feeling that you know somehow when someone is quoting scripture or speaking of "God experiences" (or whatever) and their words had now power to them - they were true enough but had no life experience, no passion, no beauty to the words they were speaking. I think truth and beauty fit together so marvelously, compliment each other so exquisitely only in the context of the larger relationship between us and God. I can look at a painting from one of the masters and appreciate the beauty of it (technique, composition, etc)or see an inspirational sweep of architecture or woodwork but nothing strikes my soul or catches my breath in my chest like a sunrise over a snow-covered mountain or my daughter's little curly head while she sleeps - a recognition perhaps from the spirit inside me of things created by our Father, truly beauty and truth in one package. Can't really have one without the other....
ReplyDeleteoh, and for my money, that iconography in the header ain't beauty (and that's the truth.....)
Anybody else...???
Good stuff Steve! This is exactly what I was getting at! I was thinking it might be cool to put a price of high art next to a peice done by our little ones on the art wall in the lobby, and see which one we find more beautiful. I thnk that while we will appreciate the aesthetic beauty in the high art, we will probably find the peice done by our little ones to be truly beautiful. Why? Because, in the context of our relationship to them in community, we find their work beautiful. Now that only speaks to this discussion in terms of art. Steve you made a really great point in a theological sense. Scriptures have no weight, no beauty, without relationship. Like you said, the scriptures are still just as true, but they are just words and un-beautiful without relationship, both between us and the Father, and to and with each other.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the next post will cover this more. Again, great stuff Steve!!