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The Good News in Oil and Acrylic

A missions center becomes a patron of the arts.

Tony Carnes | posted 11/25/2008 09:26AM

Visitors here don't expect to be challenged, diverted, distracted, and exhilarated when they walk into a missions building," says Jonathan Bonk. But when they enter the Overseas Ministries Study Center ...

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John	Posted: December 02, 2008 3:50 PM


ExposingChristianity.com - Everything in Christianity has been taken from religions predating it by hundreds to thousands of years.

Maryann

Posted: November 25, 2008 2:23 PM

Nice to see Protestants catching up with the dignity that Catholics gave art ever since Christians drew symbols on catacomb walls. The Church supported the arts through history, giving us Michelangelo, da Vinci, etc. In Letter To Artists, Pope John Paul II noted the link between art & the dialogue of Holy Scripture. This very day in Rome, Pope Benedict urged rediscovering "the link between beauty, truth & goodness" & praised art inspired by faith. The ancient Church used art as visuals to educate the illiterate & still sees created images as reflections of God's own work & the ultimate reflection of Jesus Christ who revealed himself to be the image of the invisible God. US Bishops called art a gift through which the Holy Spirit speaks, an inspiration for devotion & a visible voice expressing the universal desire for redemption. And some of you think that we Catholics are just worshipping idols.

Hal	Posted: November 25, 2008 2:13 PM


G, apparently you don't hear well.

Fred	Posted: November 25, 2008 12:25 PM

What great thoughts! When God wants to communicate the good news of the gospel he uses every artistic expression and creation known to man. All of it can be the medium of God's truth to the hearts of needy humans. God does this and does it amazingly well! Thanks for sharing such a clear expression of the wonder of God's creativity and communication via art. In the beginning God created and perhaps we are never more like Him than when we are creating.

The G

Posted: November 25, 2008 11:34 AM


Faith comes by hearing the Word!

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