Friday, February 21, 2014
"“The Church needs artists because without art we cannot reach the world. The simple fact is that the imagination ‘gets you,’ even when your reason is completely against the idea of God. ‘Imagination communicates,’ as Arthur Danto says, ‘indefinable but inescapable truth.’ Those who read a book or listen to music expose themselves to that inescapable truth. There is a sort of schizophrenia that occurs if you are listening to Bach and you hear the glory of God and yet your mind says there is no God and there is no meaning. You are committed to believing nothing means anything and yet the music comes in and takes you over with your imagination. When you listen to great music, you can’t believe life is meaningless. Your heart knows what your mind is denying. We need Christian artists because we are never going to reach the world without great Christian art to go with great Christian talk.”
Timothy Keller

yesss.
it has happened many a times
that i've experienced an overflow
of the love and character of Christ
in a song
or a dance
or a piece of prose
that calls me to wonder and worship Him
many a times i find later
that the authors of such pieces are disciples of Christ
and even more than before
my heart is overwhelmed with joy and worship
sometimes, such  is not the case
[shrug]
but our God uses who and what He will
to show us what is truly good
..to show us His glory..

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