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🎨 What if your next artwork changed culture?

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

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Matt Taylor

SPARK ARTIST

Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations.

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What Kinds of Music Should We Use In Our Worship?

Are we allowed to use all instruments for praising God? What about dance? How do we navigate the use of certain art forms over others in praising God? The American church is not the only society that wrestles with these issues.

The global church does too.

I love this story out of Burkina Faso. Check out how missionary and Arts Consultant, Mary, helped these Christian navigate these questions.

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What Does It Take For Art To Spread In A Culture?

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What if your art could change your community? How do you make art that ensures it spreads through a culture? In this video, I explain three ingredients.

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Here is my definition of “good works” for artists:

The fruit of all my efforts, on my good days and bad, to bring my body, talents, mind, feelings, opportunities, imagination, words, and actions into conformity with God’s heart.

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