What Business Are You In?
by Byron L. Spradlin He was brilliant. Clearly a child prodigy . . . the pride of Salzburg . . . a performer par excellence. At age five, he wrote an advanced concerto for...
by Byron L. Spradlin He was brilliant. Clearly a child prodigy . . . the pride of Salzburg . . . a performer par excellence. At age five, he wrote an advanced concerto for...
It Won’t Happen Fast Without Non-Artist-Advocates For the arts to become effectively used in evangelism the Church needs Non-Artist-Advocates or it won’t happen fast, if at all. Most Christians have some sense that artistic methods, and...
Ministry practices can be defined by five simple things: Assuming God works supernaturally in and through the fullness of His triune Self. Humans can’t initiate the supernatural work of salvation, or the miraculous working of...
The Christian Arts community—I’m clearly convinced—is often confused about what ministry is. Not that other parts of the Christian community aren’t confused—they are. But Christians out of arts backgrounds oftentimes certainly face confusion when it comes...
Many Christian artists ask the question, what is ministry? Let me see if I can help answer this question by simply asking a few questions of my own, then answering them biblically. First Question: What is Ministry?...
For the sake of ministry innovation critical to meet the rapid changes of our communities and cultures—to be effective—we Christians must bring together each of our core competencies to overcome the complexities of developing effective...
Many years ago, on a flight from Southern California to Nashville, I stumbled upon an airline magazine article entitled “Co-op Ventures Key to Innovation” (by Stephen Booth). The article described something amazing to me:...
When an entire village of Bolivian Indian ranch workers came to the Lord a few years ago, some missionary friends of mine were faced with some steep questions. What do we do with this...
No one can believe anything they can’t imagine. This reality makes artists and evangelism intimately go together. “But what about the importance of the content of evangelism?” one might ask. Most of you reading this blog agree...
In Exodus 35 we see one of the most helpful summary passages in Scripture that reveals a description and role of the artistic specialist in the life of the believing community. This Old Testament...
Artists Artistically gifted people have been endowed with “unusual wisdom at imaginative design and expression” (the definition of the Hebrew term “craftsman”—see e.g. Ex. 31 or Ex 35). Hopefully these categories will help you...