VAM : Goal 1
August 22nd, 2007
This is the second post in a series describing my Vision for the Visual Arts Ministry at Real Life Community Church. I’m still kind of thinking this through and I’m more or less using these posts as a sounding board for my ideas. Hopefully as this team gets up and going we will be able to collaborate on the goals and mission of this ministry.
“1. Integrate Visual Art into our Sunday worship services.”
I do my best to make the services at Real Life visually interesting and beautiful, but I’m just one person and my idea of and capacity for beauty is limited. With a team of people working on visual elements for our Sunday services we can expand our view of beauty and worship in many splendid new ways.
I see this manifesting itself in several different ways:
Live art creation during the service.
Set Building for each sermon series
Photo essays
Art Films
Motions behind the song lyrics
Series artwork for program cover and sermon slides
I’m sure there are more but these are a few that I’ve thought of. Several of which I am currently doing every week. I enjoy it but I think it could be improved by working on these things as a team. I am not against any idea really. I want this to be a team collaboration that we all decided what will work best and present these ideas to the lead pastor.
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Add your own1. Jodi | August 29th, 2007 at 2:10 am
C: How do you maintain authenticity and sincerity when attempting these things? This is always my fear (perhaps, more my obsession and concern) with added multimedia aspects in worship. To what extent is the extra effort just so much more mind candy (opiate, if you will), rather than praise?
2. Ryan | August 29th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I found this site about two weeks ago and I think you might find some of it of interest.
http://laurenstonestreet.com/
Maybe more questions than answers.
3. Clayton | August 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Jodi thanks for the comment. A good question. My answer may not be adequate but I’ll give it a shot.
For me there isn’t an issue of authenticity. The only reason I would want to do anything like this during a service is to express praise. I by no means think that these things should happen every week, nor do I believe we should sing every week but we do.
God is so much bigger than singing and the reason we would do anything else would be to help people understand that worship can happen in all things.
4. Jodi | August 29th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
C: Good point; I’m especially interested in this aspect of singing not being a necessary fixture each week. Our literal standpoint is slightly different, yours from inside and mine out; and I do highly appreciate this notion of allowing those that seek to praise the possibility of seeing how different means of praise is possible. Our views might be more akin in relationship to art and poetry.
I’m not sure I’m making sense here; let me piece through this a bit more and get back to you.
But basically, how I see my role as the poet might be similar to how you see your role as an artist who happens to have a central role within a public-forum church.
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