Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation
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Overview
If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past?
Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and manual for unleashing creativity in your congregation so you can connect with the more visual, aural, participatory and expressive generation that is rising up within the church today.
In this handbook you'll find clear direction for:
Activate your church in every avenue of worship with this practical guide for arts ministry.
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- Focuses on the many art forms that have been underdeveloped in churches
- Presents a thorough discussion of arts ministry: how to develop it and how maintain it
- Includes the complimentary "Creative Church Handbook Resources and Extras", an extensive online cache of related materials and ideas
- A Renewal of the Arts and Creativity in the Church
- Ten Ways the Arts and Creativity Support the Church's Mission
- Envisioning the Arts and Creativity in Your Church
- How to Launch an Arts Ministry in Your Church
- Inspiring, Empowering, and Leading Artists in the Church
- Crafting a Creative Arts Community
- Structure for Arts Ministry
- Building a Creative Congregation
- Applications for the Arts and Creativity in Sermons
- Five Interactive Art Projects for Churches
- Live Art in the Church
- Dance in the Church
- Media, Film and Video
- Creating an Art Studio and Workshops to Foster Creativity
- An Art Gallery in Your Church
- Creating Sacred Space Experiences
- Beyond the Church Walls
- Artists-in-Residence in the Church
- Your Church as an Arts Patron, and Working with Outside Artists
- Working Around Barriers to the Arts and Creativity in Your Church
Essential. Comprehensive. Inspiring. If you are an artist of faith, or lead artists of faith, you absolutely need to get this book.
Manuel Luz, author, Imagine That: Discovering Your Unique Role as a Christian Artist
McElroy has gone to work for us, recording inspiring advice, experience and ideas from his national survey of churches active in the arts. Creative Church Handbook shows how the new renaissance of creativity in our churches is turning the eyes of our culture back to God. Whether you are a seasoned arts pastor or just investigating how the arts might benefit your church, this book's gathered wisdom and curated advice will serve you greatly.
Jason Leith, Arts Initiative Director, Saddleback Church
With the increasing interest in creativity and artistic expression among Christians today, there is a commensurate need for insight and wisdom on how a renewed imagination can be embodied within the life and mission of the church. Biblically rooted and immensely practical, Creative Church Handbook is an encouraging resource that will inform the journey of God's people as they continue to recover and create vibrant expressions of truth and beauty in worship, life and mission.
Dr. Colin Harbinson, international director, StoneWorks Global Arts Initiative
- Title: Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation
- Author: J. Scott McElroy
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Pages: 299
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christianity and the arts; Creative ability › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780830897599, 9780830841202, 0830897593, 0830841202
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830897599
- Resource Type: text.monograph.handbook
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T22:51:59Z
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