Creative Church Handbook Releasing The Power Of The Arts In Your Congregation

Author : J. Scott McElroy
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830841202
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Church Handbook written by J. Scott McElroy and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists and musicians 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.

Author : J. Scott McElroy
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768496144
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Divine Inspiration written by J. Scott McElroy and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity you'll learn listen for God's voice and inspiration in your creative process. And you'll discover the joy of working with the Holy Spirit on the projects He has designed especially for you! God wants to bring a transforming wave of divinely inspired creativity to the culture and the church through His transformed artists. Finding Divine Inspiration is full of practical steps and exciting biblical, historic and current examples, to help you learn to partner with The Great Creator in your life and work! Includes Exclusive Interviews with : Thomas Blackshear, Painter Forgiven Dan Haseltine, Jars of Clay Peter Furler, Newsboys Buzz McLauglin, Writer/Producer, Theater and Film And more!

Author : Michael J. Bauer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802869289
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts Ministry written by Michael J. Bauer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, gives concerts to raise money for local service organizations. Trinity Lutheran Church in Mission, Kansas, has been sponsoring a religious art show for more than twenty-five years. Fellowship Lutheran Church runs a Christian arts camp for young people every summer. These are just three of the eighteen case studies of practicing arts ministries in this book, in which Michael Bauer encourages the nurture and support of all the creative gifts of God's people. Bauer lays a solid foundation for arts ministry, grounding it in the historic Christian tradition and urging churches to expand their engagement with the creative arts -- "to live and worship in full color," as he puts it. A concluding chapter clearly lays out how to develop an arts ministry, helping readers to take these ideas from theory to practice, to embrace and celebrate the continuing creative activity of God in the church.

Author : J. Scott McElroy
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897593
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Church Handbook written by J. Scott McElroy and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: Mobilizing and managing artists and other creatives in your congregation Establishing structures and parameters for arts ministry Leading and supporting staff and church members in creative changes Enhancing the worship service Adding creative elements to your sermons Engaging the broader community Activate your church in every avenue of worship with this practical guide for arts ministry.

Author : Urbana Worship Team
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830819430
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worship Team Handbook written by Urbana Worship Team and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1998-12-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship in an interactive way! This down-to-earth guide will help your worship team work together to lead others in praise by discussing key elements from music to drama and showing you how to worship interactively as an authentic leader. Edited by Allison Siewert.

Author : Mike Cosper
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433533456
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhythms of Grace written by Mike Cosper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it singing? A church service? All of life? Helping Christians think more theologically about the nature of true worship, Rhythms of Grace shows how the gospel is all about worship and worship is all about the gospel. Mike Cosper ultimately answers the question: What is worship?

Author : Alison Siewert
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830832088
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama Team Sketchbook written by Alison Siewert and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need drama. Drama helps us see ourselves. It makes space for the parts of life that are ambiguous, thrilling, painful, uncertain. It says things to us that we desperately need to hear, and it says them intuitively, by pointing rather than by explaining. Drama helps us see God. The woman at the well comes to know God because she admits who she really is--and in the very next turn, she hears Jesus speak who he really is. Drama speaks prophetically. Theater can ask hard questions by pointing to them on the stage, and we can say things in the context of theatrical dialogue that we would struggle to speak in any other context. Drama shows in a world that tells. It makes big ideas concrete, helping us understand ideas like hypocrisy, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. We need drama in our ministries, in our churches and on our college campuses. We need drama that helps us tell the story of Jesus so that people can hear and respond. In this "sketchbook" Alison Siewert offers twelve scripts of Gospel stories, from the nativity to the resurrection, that will help those who have ears to hear the Word of God.

Author : Michael Card
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830868292
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribbling in the Sand written by Michael Card and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper Edition was voted 2002 Publisher's Weekly Best Adult Religion Book of the Year! "It was art and it was theater at the same time, but it was more. It was what he did not say that spoke most powerfully to the mob that morning. It was a cup of cold water for a thirsty adulteress and an ice cold drenching in the face to a group of angry Pharisees. "To this day we have not the slightest idea what it was Jesus twice scribbled in the sand. By and large the commentaries have asked the wrong question through the ages. They labor over the content, over what he might have written. They ask what, without ever realizing the real question is why? It was not the content that mattered but why he did it. Unexpected. Irritating. Creative." (From the Introduction) Singer, songwriter and diligent student of Scripture, Michael Card is well known for the depth of his lyrics and the artistry of his music. But far more significant than the songs he has penned is the source of his inspiration--the creativity embodied in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God. In this book Card explores the biblical foundations of true Christian creativity. Whether we think of ourselves as creative or not, all of us are created in the image of our Creator God, and thus creativity is a vital expression of our discipleship. With Jesus as his model, Card shows how understanding God s creative imagination leads to a lifestyle of humility, obedience and servanthood. And he invites us to follow God s creative call through worship and community. Through Jesus, God has spoken to us in a word we can understand. Likewise, Michael Card has articulated the story of Jesus to others through his own scribblings in the sand. This book shows us how we can do the same.

Author : Karen Case-Green
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498217346
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaging the Story written by Karen Case-Green and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant." (Emily Dickinson) This course follows the contours of the salvation story through the lens of the arts. Putting visual art and poetry in conversation with the Bible, it seeks to engage the imagination. Rather than analyzing the narrative, the reader is invited to behold it and respond to it through "making"--either verbally or visually. At times, the church has treated the imagination like an embarrassing relative. Yet the Bible is image-rich, drawing widely on the imagination, and we are each made in the image of the creator God. It is time to bring the imagination out of the corner! "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Eph 2:10 NIV) Whether following it as a group or reading it alone, this course book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the salvation story and the arts. It is particularly for those who feel permission is needed to pick up a paintbrush--or any other creative medium--just for the love of it.

Author : J. McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692814956
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal written by J. McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a lifestyle of collaboration with the Great Creator! The Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal is the practical companion to Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity (Destiny Image). Designed for group or individual interaction, this study guide is packed with thought-provoking questions, engaging exercises, insightful commentary, inspiring reflections, and artistically formatted journal pages. Finding Divine Inspiration has encouraged thousands with the message that God designed each of us for joyful collaboration with Him! God planned good works (and work) for you even before you were born. You have a place in history no one else can fill, and your destiny includes wondrous collaboration with Him. That collaboration ushers His Kingdom creativity into the world. Finding Divine Inspiration is full of practical steps, and exciting biblical, historical, and current examples to help you hear Gods voice and collaborate with Him in your life and work. The Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal will help you process and apply those life-changing concepts with a group or individually. Together, Finding Divine Inspiration and the Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal will enable you to embark on a rich journey toward a greater sense of purpose and deeper creative fulfillment--the natural benefits of learning to listen to and collaborate with the Creator God.